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Sensation in Dresden: a skull in white marble has been attributed to the famous Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Friedrich August I of Saxony, better known as Augustus the Strong, had purchased the masterpiece in 1728, but later it got forgotten

Mies van der Rohe’s idea of a “universal space“ almost in its pure form: in Berlin, the Neue Nationalgalerie has been thoroughly renovated and inconspicuously modernized

The building from the 1960s uses glass and steel as well as a lot of natural stone

Stone Insight: The Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin shows the Mies’ Corner in many variations

NSI Takes Ownership of Natural Stone Sustainability Standard

Ownership of the ANSI/NSC 373 rules für stone production has officially transferred from the Natural Stone Council to the Natural Stone Institute

Product design with natural stone (1): what is actually meant by this and how can objects for everyday use be created from marble, granite & Co?

“Form Follows Function“ is the guideline, in the case of a competition supplemented by intelligent project management on the part of the curators and clients

Tate Modern’s „EY Exhibition: The Making of Rodin“ gives a unique insight into the artist‘s ways of thinking and making

Auguste Rodin, who personally only worked as a modeller with materials such as clay, broke the rules of classical sculpture to create a dramatically different image of the human body

Marmomacchine magazine (#272) has a report about Morocco’s stone sector

As Notre Dame is being rebuilt, replacement stones that may be suitable are now going through laboratory testing

One of the challenges is finding new quarries or bringing decommissioned ones back into service to provide the large quantities needed

In 2022, Xiamen Stone Fair will return to March and is scheduled from 16 – 19 of the month

The post-show report of the 2021 event summarizes the new features held at the first hybrid stone fair

From a stone that was discovered in Utah only in 1995 (Honeycomb Calcite) and an artist (Jonna Ramey), who masters the challenge of the very special material

The structures and the colors in the stone make some representation impossible

Colonization of the Antilles by fauna from South America: giant sunken islands served as passageways

Over the last 40 million years, movements of the tectonic plates and glacial cycles gave birth to appearance and disappearance of archipelagos in today’s Caribbean Sea

‘Sculpture Rocks’, a free outdoor exhibition of Japanese artworks (most in stone), is open until June 03, 2021, in Sydney, Australia

Pierre Actual (#1004) presents 5 women working for the limestone Pierre de Bourgogne

The Gravestone Award of the Canton of Basel-Stadt in Switzerland aims to move the bereaved away from mass-produced gravestones

The award was presented for the 25th time in 2020 and honors individual designs by Swiss artists

On our list for the time after Covid-19: São Paulo in Brazil from its artistic side with stone

The metropolis is home to numerous sculptures and, of course, some monumental monuments to the country‘s history