Sabin Howard Sculpture
The Epoch Times, a vibrant and thoughtful international news outlet in both print and internet format, reviewed our sculpture opening at the Institute for Classical Architecture and Art on March 2, 2012.
Parts of my talk that night were quoted, including my line about post-modernism: “I’m here to tell you, the emperor has no clothes.”
Check out this well-written article here.
NEW YORK—A new vigor for classical arts, like another Renaissance, is in the air at the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art, in Manhattan, where the lifelike sculptures of Sabin Howard are now on exhibit through March 22.
“Real art uplifts you, it transforms you,” said award-winning novelist Traci L. Slatton, who is also Howard’s wife.
Under the various banners of classicism, realism, and art that is simply “uplifting,” Slatton and other accomplished professionals from the art and literary world gathered on March 2 to celebrate Howard’s works—many of which depict gods in the Greek and Roman tradition and took Howard years to create.
“Looking is the point, beauty is the point, mastery is the point,” said Slatton in an opening speech that condemned the highly conceptual direction of abstract and contemporary art today. “Sabin Howard’s pieces lack irony; this is a deliberate choice.”
The event was not simply an exhibit but a call for a revival of traditional techniques and uplifting subject matter.
Stefano Acunto, chairman of the Italian Academy Foundation, which hosted the exhibit, implored, “Let us work to build upon the work of the greatest achievers, to improve upon it, and to develop it organically—much as Sabin Howard is doing.”