• Bird in Space. Bird in Space by Constantin Brancusi. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Photo by I. Peterson.
  • Dr. Steven Zucker: [0:00] We’re in the Museum of Modern Art, and we’re looking at Constantin Brancusi’s “Bird in Space” from 1928.
  • [background music] We're in the Museum of Modern Art and we're looking at Constantin Brancusi's "Bird in Space" from 1928.
  • …of polished-bronze sculptures, all entitled Bird in Space. The elliptical, slender lines of these figures put the very essence of rapid flight into concrete form.
  • Bird in Space, Brancusi (ASL). While this sculpture might seem abstract, Brancusi insisted that his works revealed the inner essence of his subjects.
  • [Verse 1] I flirt with Brancusi's gesture I'm a bird in space As his ghost escorts me to a magic place I'm dressed all in colours, neither white nor black Ask the...
  • A new immersive 3D Lens celebrating Brancusi's return to the MoMA visually contextualizing one of his most prolific sculptures the Bird in Space.
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  • In “Bird in Space” wings and feathers are eliminated, the swell of the body is elongated, and the head and beak are reduced to a slanted oval plane.
  • In Bird in Space, wings and feathers are eliminated, the swell of the body is elongated, and the head and beak are reduced to a slanted oval plane.