Sculpting the Weird and Wonderful Human Form

Step right up — you are cordially invited to gawk, gaze and recoil at a wealth of bodies, both alluring and grotesque.

Philippe Curtius, Sleeping Beauty 1989, after 1765 original | Madame Tussauds, London.

The Met Breuer has entered unchartered territory with Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (1300-Now). A pioneering survey of figurative sculpture, Like Life delves not only into the…