A towering yellow crane recently installed two massive, 14,000-lb. snapping turtle sculptures outside the Indiana Dunes Visitors Center, the gateway to the Indiana Dunes National and State Parks.

and covered with dead trees that have been bleached by salt and sun into giant driftwood sculptures. Some stand upright on a bed of bleached roots, others look like life-sized Kraken skeletons ...

For clues about how this push may play out, look to “The Puritan” — the famous bronze statue by sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens — and the ninth great-grandfather of The Times’ art critic.

Housing Buddhist sculptures and relics, Luyeyuan Stone Sculpture Art Museum weaves a traditional Chinese garden throughout the passage of exhibition space. Volumes of this windowless building are ...

“Abstraction is not a…simplified way of thinking: it’s a leap—a leap into a dimension that cannot otherwise be understood,” says Haegue Yang, whose multimedia installations and sculptures explore a ...