Virko Baley: Sculptured Birds For his work for clarinet and piano, Sculptured Birds, Ukrainian-American composer Virko Baley (b 1938) chose four modern artists for his four movements, beginning in 1978 and continuing in 1982 through 1984. The Sculptured Birds suite

Jessica Krash: Be Seeing You American composer Jessica Krash was commissioned by two Washington DC arts institutions, the National Gallery of Art and The National Museum of Women in the Arts to create a work based on 14 works of

Michael Daugherty: Mount Rushmore It looms over the Black Hills of South Dakota: a massive sculpture carved into the face of Mount Rushmore, which stands a massive 60 feet (18m) high. The heads of four presidents, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson,

Britta Byström: Infinite Rooms Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929) has taken the idea of dots and pumpkins to an infinite extreme. She says that creating art is how she maintains her sanity, ‘I followed the thread of art and

The image itself is familiar enough: a green lawn with pink flamingos on it. This sculpture was created in 1957 by the American artist Don Featherstone as part of his work for Union Products, an injection mould plastics company. All

In West Malling, Kent, there’s a statue of a woman, Hope by Sara Cunnington. The woman strides forward, a dove in her hand about to launch out into the world. Hope’s cloak, streaming behind her, is patterned with panels that

Mexican composer Carlos Sanchez-Guttierrez (b. 1964), who now teaches at the Eastman School of Music, created his work …Ex Machina in 2008 as a work for marimba, piano, and symphony orchestra. He was inspired by different artworks, mostly by the

The French composer André Jolivet (1905–1974) was the sole pupil in France of the composer Edgar Varèse (1883–1965). Jolivet was the son of an artist and pianist and from his parents, soon excelled in both fields. One of his music