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New York Thrifter Finds $8 Picassos at Salvation Army
Nancy Cavaliere, who resold the original Picasso ceramics at auction for $40K, now shares her tips for thrifting on TikTok.
Rhea Nayyar
Rhea Nayyar (she/her) is a New York City-based staff reporter at Hyperallergic. She received a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and has a passion for small-scale artworks, elevating minority perspectives, and dogspotting at art world events.
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TikTok Goes Surrealist With “Exquisite Corpse” Videos
Users are stitching videos together in the style of the beloved “cadavre exquis” game.
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Adorable Pup Found Hidden in Picasso Painting
X-ray fluorescence of the artist’s “Le Moulin de la Galette” (1900) has revealed a little brown dog with a red bow under layers of paint.
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New York Art Advisor Hit With $2M Lawsuit
Three clients are accusing consultant Lisa Schiff of running a “Ponzi scheme” to fund her “lavish lifestyle.”
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Manet’s Controversial Nude Is Coming to New York
“Olympia” (1863) will be shown in the US for the first time as part of a Met exhibition focused on the joint careers of Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas.
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Sculpture Slays at Spring Break’s “Surprise” Show
The show returns to its original space at a Catholic school in Nolita for a 10-day, salon-style exhibition.
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A No-Nonsense Guide to NYC’s May Art Fairs
Frieze or Future? NADA or Volta? To help alleviate the daunting dizziness of too many options, we’ve got the run-down for you.
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Rare Klimt Landscape Heads to Auction in New York
The artist’s plein-air painting of Austria's Lake Attersee could fetch up to $45M.
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Art-Filled Ways to Spend Mother’s Day in NYC
Celebrate your mama or maternal figure with painting workshops, a museum scavenger hunt, drag brunches, and flowers, lots of flowers!
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Historian May Have Identified the Bridge in the “Mona Lisa”
Silvano Vinceti’s research asserts that the four-arched bridge in the portrait is the Ponte Romito in the province of Arezzo, Italy.
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Ghosted by East Village Gallery, Artists Demand Answers
Several artists say the curator of the East Village Art Collection disappeared after charging them participation fees for an exhibition that never happened.
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Met Gala Memes for a Meh Gala Theme
If honoring Karl Lagerfeld wasn't awful enough, this year’s theme was also painfully boring.