Art quilts, wall hanging and 3D tapestries: Looking at the work of Quinn Hawkesworth and Nancy Garretson. Last in a three-part series on the popularity of fiber arts in the ...

STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS Kristen Ripley, the art teacher at Amherst Regional High School, helps Anisa Turku, left, and Sydney Holmes during a collaborative soft sculpture project at the high school.

Kostianovsky’s soft sculptures seek to offer “carnal knowledge’, but not of the type that Jack Nicholson and Art Garfunkel sought in the 1971 film of that name. It’s about desire but not lust.

Phillips will offer two Kusama soft-sculptures from 1965 that have been owned by the Becht family since that same year at its evening auction of 20th-century and contemporary art on May 17 in New ...

In May 2009, a 1976 Oldenburg sculpture, “Typewriter Eraser,” sold for a record $2.2 million at an auction of post-war and contemporary art in New York.

Claes Oldenburg, a Swedish-born artist whose “soft sculptures” of hamburgers and ice cream cones and oversized renderings of everyday things — including lipsticks and binoculars as big as ...

Toyko-born painter and soft sculpture installation artist Junko Yamamoto earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Cornish College of the Arts and currently lives and works in Seattle. Her ...

But to build that public art resume, she has to start small, she said, with $2,000 sculptures, and work her way up. The timing feels right, though the timing of her life has always seemed auspicious.

Ritzi Jacobi, a European pioneer of contemporary textile and fiber art who was best known for her monumental wall hangings and soft sculptures, died on June 19 at her home in Düsseldorf, Germany.

In May 2009, a 1976 Oldenburg sculpture, “Typewriter Eraser,” sold for a record $2.2 million at an auction of post-war and contemporary art in New York.

Claes Oldenburg, a Swedish-born artist whose lighthearted caricatures of everyday things — such as monumental renderings of lipstick and binoculars as well as “soft sculptures” of hamburgers ...