His bronze birds are treasured by premiers and princes. Four U.S. presidents have commissioned his art. Yet Wheatley Allen modestly works in his Oakland studio, plying a trade that he learned as a ...

When it comes to producing the centerpiece for the ideal Christmas lunch, Patricia Graham knows the worst thing you can do is rush the process. Indeed, as her aunt used to tell her, if a turkey is to ...

One of the few consensuses reached on the Sanxingdui culture is that it worshipped the sun. And one artifact considered central to this belief is a giant 4-meter-tall bronze tree unearthed from the ...

CANON CITY — He's a mile-a-minute talker with a passion for planes — and people, too. Robert Henderson is known for his aircraft sculptures, which "fly" in the honor court at the U.S. Air Force ...

A bronze sculpture of a bird on a pole by Tracey Emin, which was commissioned by the BBC with £60,000 of licence payers' money, has mysteriously vanished. While the 13ft pole remains outside Liverpool ...

Sitting on the stoop of a colonial building on Sydney’s Bridge Street, a man enjoying the sun looks up. He hadn’t realised that one of British artist Tracey Emin’s handmade bronze birds she calls ...

Lines of flight: a foreword -- Some notes to the reader -- Prologue -- pt. 1. Lift-off. Strange birds ; Bird divinations in the ancient world ; The Hvidegård burial revisited -- pt. 2. Birdscapes.