PARIS — Young New York–based Canadian artist David Altmejd’s remarkably ambitious retrospective exhibition of sculpture at the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris played pithily with many current ...

The Canadian-born sculptor David Altmejd is a master of world-building. His large-scale installations and intimately scaled sculptures are like Russian nesting dolls of stories and materials, with ...

There is nothing simple about the work of Canadian artist David Altmejd, who claims he was never interested in art making as a way to convey a specific idea. The New York-based sculptor is fascinated ...

Read our pick of the best New York art exhibitions to see in April from Helen Frankenthaler and Anthony Caro's exhibition celebrating their friendship to Roy Lichtenstein’s scattered brushstrokes.

David Altmejd, "The University 1 " (2004) (all images courtesy the author) Day trips beyond New York City for visual art can feel decadent, especially with all the spectacular shows we don’t have time ...

How is it that David Altmejd's sculptures – a raddled cast of flesh-eaten corpses – don't look like the remains of a zombie feast? He references just about every schlock horror director from Romero to ...

In another life, David Altmejd probably would’ve been a scientist. Walk inside the artist’s studio in Long Island City, Queens, and you’ll see trays of sparkling geodes arranged by color, shelves of ...

"David Altmejd (born 1974) is known for his intricate and highly worked room-size installations and sculptures. Seamlessly moving between a variety of aesthetic modes--from an almost ascetic ...

NOT FAR FROM the film lots of Silvercup Studios, in NYC’s Long Island City—where classics like Do the Right Thing and Highlander were produced—a more metaphoric kind of cinema unfolds in two airy ...

Taking over the 9,800-square-foot Brant Foundation Art Study Center in Greenwich, Conn., Canadian sculptor David Altmejd has staged a kind of beautiful, nightmarish, campy creation myth, Nov. 5, ...