Tag: sculpture

We're Living for This Degas-Inspired Sculpture of Misty Copeland

Edgar Degas’ famous sculpture Little Dancer Aged Fourteen has been getting a lot of love recently—and by “love,” we mean everything from a tutu upgrade to a full-on musical telling her story. But artist Doyle V. Trankina‘s reimagining of the sculpture, with none other than Misty Copeland taking the place of the young Paris Opéra […]

Oh Hey, This Is Just a Video of Your Ballet Boyfriend Sergei Polunin Posing Shirtless for a Sculptor, Nothing to See Here

Obviously, dancers make natural muses for sculptors. (Just ask Degas or Rodin.) What artist wouldn’t want to capture their singularly beautiful bodies—bodies that serve as instruments, bodies that speak? And when the sculpt-able dancer body in question belongs to Sergei Polunin—ballet bad boy, star of the upcoming film Red Sparrow, muse to David LaChapelle, *cough* […]