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The Untold Story of Alma Mahler and Her Relationship to the Bauhaus
Nearly 100 years ago Walter Gropius divorced from Alma Mahler, the Viennese musician married to the academy’s famed founder during the planning stages of the Bauhaus.
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New York State Launches Opioid Lawsuit, Naming Sacklers and Purdue Pharma
The NY Attorney General filed the updated lawsuit, which calls the Sackler family’s art philanthropy a tactic to “whitewash their decades-long success in profiting at New Yorkers’ expense.”
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The Mesmerizing Mundanity of Pierre Bonnard's Late Paintings
On view at the Tate Modern, Pierre Bonnard: The Colour of Memory focuses on the French Post-Impressionist's mature work, from 1912, when color became his chief concern, until his death in 1947.
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An Exhibition in the Bahamas Crosses Boundaries and Borders
At the ninth national exhibition of the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, artists play with the theme of fruits and seeds in staggeringly varied and complicated ways.
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Was Man Ray the Inspiration Behind the Black Dahlia Murder?
Steve Hodel believes his father — a friend of the surrealist — committed the grizzly Hollywood murder as an emulation of the artist's techniques.
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Construction Workers Claim Kochi-Muziris Biennale Shorted Payment
A contracting company says it "has been left in a precarious financial situation" after the biennial declined to pay its full construction costs. The biennial says a government-approved valuer found "that the amounts demanded by the contractor are arbitrary."
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Yu Hong's Fantastical Universe of Sorrow
In the Chinese artist's monumental paintings, babies sleep in hell and faceless crowds slump in despair, illustrating the Buddhist world of Saha, where all beings suffer.
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The Artistic Explosion in Turn-of-the-Century Soviet Russia
The art of Soviet Russia may not strike the viewer as free or autonomous, but the artistic developments that flourished in this period influenced many important movements of 20th century art.
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NYU Steinhardt Opens 2019 MFA Thesis Exhibitions
Explore Part I of the MFA Thesis Exhibition, on view at 80WSE Gallery in New York’s Greenwich Village April 3–20. Part II will be on view May 1–22.
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Pulled into Robert Mapplethorpe's Vortex of Voyeurism
"What's S&M?" I overhear a woman asking her husband in the exhibition. "The artist says here that it stands for sex and magic, but this set up doesn't look very magical."
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Thomas J. Lax was appointed media and performance curator at the Museum of Modern Art, Anita Hill will receive the PEN Courage Award, and more.
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Spring Cleaning Bingo for Artists
From that disgusting kneaded eraser to paper too nice to ever use.