Art: Sand Sculptor

To most artists sand sculpture rates about on a par with building a snow man. But Sardinian-born Costantino Nivola, 44, has found a way to turn his vacation-time doodlings on the beaches of Long Island into one of the liveliest and most pleasant new sculptured ideas of the decade. Last week Nivola's growing reputation got another big boost. National Memorial Park, across the river from Washington in Falls Church, Va., which already boasts the late Carl Milles' 38-figure Fountain of Faith (TIME COLOR PAGES, June 27), unveiled its second major sculpture grouping: Nivola's $50,000 memorial fountain...

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