an oversized vertical sculpture began to collapse under its own weight and spread onto the floor. tradition before him, landscape sculpture. >> you feel this extended human form underneath the surface of the earth struggling to emerge. eventually, it does. it articulates his idea that the earth is like flesh, and the archaeology and geology in the earth are like the bones, the structure of the earth. this tied in with his idea of mother earth, with the sense that we are all tied to nature and the earth. >> a half dozen bay area museums and private collectors loan the massive sculptures to the museum for its matter and spirit retrospective. but the most unusual contributions came from stephen himself. a wall of autobiographical masks and hence from the early decades of his private study. >> he had one of the most beautiful studios i have ever been in. when you walk in, your first impression is of these monumental figures that you see in the exhibition, but if you went into the back corner of his studio, there was a series of shells with these diminutive figures. he told me, these a

the human body became as much the subject of michelangelo's painting as it was of his sculpture.ope julius had neither armies nor canon enough to influence europe as he might wish, but in the vatican, he could present an image of papal power to impress all comers. the story is told that raphael was mightily impressed when he was smuggled in to see the unfinished sistine ceiling by the architect of the new saint peter's, bramante. certainly, in the decorations of the pope's library, which raphael was painting at the same time, there is a figure answering to michelangelo's description. there's evidence the figure was added later than the others, and its style seems a tribute to his rival's style. the school of athens, in a setting which evokes bramante's designs for saint peter's, is part of a sophisticated presentation of abstract ideas-- in this case, the ideas of philosophy expressed in human form. plato points towards heaven, aristotle towards the earth. to the left, mathematics is personified by pythagoras, surrounded by inquiring minds. to the right, euclid-- portrayed in the

the sculptures are being made while i am doing the collages, and vice versa. of something else. there's always this figuring out of where things belong or where they could parapets something else. at the end goal is to possibly see one of these collage plans be built out and create a structure that reflects back into the flat work. >> thank you so much for allowing "culturewire" to visit this amazing facility and to learn more about the artists in residence program. is there anything you like our viewers to know? >> we have art exhibitions every four months, and a win by the public to come out. everybody is welcome to come out. we have food. sometimes we have gains and bands. it is great time. from june to september, we accept applications from bay area artists. we encouraged artists from all mediums to apply. we want as many artists from the bay area out here so they can have the same experience. >> how many artists to do your host here? >> 6 artist a year, and we receive about 108 applications. very competitive. >> but everyone should be encouraged to apply.

it features a couple of suspended sculptures.ach was created out of a series of flat plains run parallel to each other and constructed of steel tubing. >> it is made up of these strata. as the light starts to shift, there is a real sense that there is a dynamism. >> it gives the illusion that this cultures might be fragments of a larger, mysterious mass. >> the environmental artwork livens it with color, light, and the movement. three large woven soldiers are suspended. these are activated by custom air flow program. >> i channeled air flow into each of these forms that makes it move ever so slightly. and it is beating like a heart. if-0 when as of the forces of nature moving around us every second. >> shadow patterns reflect the shapes of the hanging sculptures. the new terminal also features a children's play areas. both of the market the exploratory n.y. -- exploratorium. the offer travelers of all ages a playful oasis. using high quality plywood, they created henches shaped like a bird wings that double as musical instruments

you may be wondering i am' in front of arena stage in front of the sculpture. this is part of a public works project that is generating lots of interest about the hundredth anniversary of the national cherry blossom festival. it's a hundred years since tokyo gifted the district of columbia 3,000 of the beautiful cherry trees we enjoy every year. for the anniversary interest is way up. i want to show you some statistics. these were given to me from downtown d.c., merchandise sales, for example, $19,000 worth by last month, that's four times the level of february last year. hotel bookings are way, way up. 499 as of february. sale price over $87,000. big increase over last year. i caught up with the new general manager of the ritz carlton in georgetown who told me they are rolling out the cherry red carpet for visitors this year. and they've seen a lot of new interest because the cherry blossoms are blooming so early this year. >> cherry blossom bookings are good. things have been a bit warmer so we've been getting a lot of increase about are they blossoming. we h

relief sculptures of captives flank the stairways. palenque and calakmul vied for control of the rich fertile tabasco plain that stretched north from palenque toward the gulf of mexico. when the kings of palenque sat in the palace and looked out across the tabasco plain all the way to the gulf of mexico, it was the region that they dominated. and from that region, they were able to collect cotton and cacao, two principal sources of wealth. (narrator) pakal died in 683 and was succeeded by his oldest son kan bahlam-- his name means snake jaguar-- who reigned until 702. he continued to expand the glory of palenque. there is no other place where we find, for example, the use of parallel corbels as early as we see them here. and one of the things that this does is make the buildings inherently more stable. these buildings have stood the test of time better than at almost any other site because of the kind of engineering knowledge that the maya used. (narrator) kan bahlam built three major temples-- the temple of the oss, the temple of the

one artist created a magnificent sculpture that sits right in the center of the exhibition. >> theseces are the physical manifestation of a narrative of a child in memory. an important family friend give us a dining table, very important, and we are excited about it. my little brother and i were 11, 14. we were realizing that they were kind of hand prints everywhere on the bottom where no one would really see, and it became this kind of a weakening of what child labor is. it was almost like an exercise to show a stranger that feeling we had at that moment. >> the second thing the exhibition covers is how the allocation is defined, a great example on the theme, sculpture called mexicali culture. another bay area artist who has done residencies in china and also to what, mexico. where immigrant communities really helped define how businesses look of a business' sign age and interior decoration, her sculptural piece kind of mismatches the two communities together, creating this wonderful, fantastical future look at what the present is today. first topic is where we can see where the two

it turned out to be a huge stone sculpture depicting an aztec goddess. excavations around the sculpture eventually led to the discovery of a large complex of buildings directly below the streets of mexico city. what had been uncovered were the remains of the templo mayor, the religious heart of the aztec empire. nested inside the final building were the ruins of six earlier structures. one of the earliest was an almost complete temple, including a sculpture which once held the hearts of sacrificial victims. the main structure was an enormous pyramid with two temples at the top -- one built to the aztec god of water, the other to the god of war. these two deities had special significance for the aztecs. mexican archaeologist eduardo matos. interpreter: these two elements, water and war, were the basis of the empire, what sustained the aztecs -- one fundamentally and the other economically. for this reason, one of the main temples was dedicated to water, to agricultural production, the fertility of the land. and the other temple was dedicated to war, the c

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native and the creator behind the sculpture. and this must be a proud moment for you. >> five years and this is exciting. >> $150,000 commission. talk about that? >> the d.c. commission put a call out to the artists. as all who a ployed, was picked as one of the five finalists and i was chops. >> we get a closer look at the sculpture itself, obviously, ellington is in front of the piano, tell me what this is? >> you have duke ellington sitting at the piano, the tool of his trade, and it wanted to transcend the tools and become the music. because there is an artist creating a sculpture of a musical artist. i really wanted to embody that spirit, that musical lyrical spirit. >> and he's sitting on top of a treble cliff. >> and that sculpture is sitting on top of a granite base. what is that process going to be like? they have to basically hoist it on top of that, right? >> there are anchors in the bias waiting for him to set in. he set down bolts and the other two components get assembled. >> and you're assembling with d.c. ties, f

it turned out that he had created a number of just amazing sculptures of trial lawyers. and he went on to do one of clara fults, the first woman attorney in california and became the leader of the public defender movement. and just by happenstance, he called me and had this idea of encapsulating one of the greatest trial attorneys of our times. so, bill? is he here? this is not a magistrate. [laughing] -- not a magic trick. >> i've never met tony serra, so i have to make use of the internet to get a sense of who he was and the imagery. what clearly came over was his passion for justice. and in some cases almost a rage for justice. and initially when i started the imagery with the clay, i tried to show this passion for justice, this rage. but then i had a conversation with jeff about tony serra. and another element came out, his great heart, his deep generosity, and his respect for those he defended. so i've tried to incorporate both of these things in this piece. and i depicted him as i would see him making his plea to the jury on behalf of his client. i hope tony likes

because there were literally hundreds of fragments of sculpture. what we wanted to find out was what these symbols meant. why were they placed on the buildings ? what could they tell us about the elite lineage that lived in this particular structure ? keach: the pieces of sculpture are delicate. their sizes vary greatly. the team at copan arranges and rearranges them in a giant sandbox. get it centered a little more, because we're getting over to this side. keach: eventually, the pieces form a neat fit. once they're reconstructed, some of them will be returned to the original site. after we fitted these particular pieces back together in the sandbox, then we wanted to try them out on the building itself and see how they worked out. and we had some good structural evidence that they did actually fit here because they actually mated into the spaces left by the original restoration. in the left hand, the figure is carrying an instrument, a conch shell that's been cut in half or sectioned. and in looking at other examples of this kind of an instrument