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A View From the Easel
This week, artist studios in Arizona, Australia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and South Africa.
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Art
Photos Reveal How San Francisco and LA Dramatically Grew After 1850
An exhibition documents how California and photography grew up together, and how photos influenced the rest of the country’s perception of the state’s two leading cities.
News
Week in Review: Italy Won't Send Leonardos to the Louvre, Shredded Banksy Heads to Exhibition
Also, curators at the British Museum realized an object they displayed as a vase was actually a Sumerian weapon, how art dealer Mary Boone hopes to avoid jail time after pleading guilty to tax fraud, and more.
News
El Museo del Barrio Rescinds Philanthropy Award for Rightwing German Princess
After Latinx scholars voiced their disturbance that the museum would honor Princess Gloria Von Thurn und Taxis, a friend to Steve Bannon, El Museo walked back its plan with little explanation.
Opinion
Has the Salvator Mundi Really Gone Missing? Unpacking the Latest Conspiracy Theory
Keeping track of the world's most expensive painting has become more difficult since it transferred into Saudi hands. One conspiracist claims the painting is involved in a money laundering plot tie Trump-Russia scandal.
Announcement
An Autobiography in Pictures, Ai Weiwei: Beijing Photographs 1993–2003
The book contains more than 600 carefully sequenced images culled from an archive of more than 40,000 photographs taken by the artist.
Podcast
The Political Life of Memes with An Xiao Mina
Memes are increasingly part of protest movements, but how do we understand their role and purpose? A new book helps us figure it out.
Announcement
New York City Ballet's Art Series Presents Shantell Martin
The series will be featured at three special performances on February 2, 8, and March 2 at 8 PM, with all tickets priced at $35.
Books
Growing Up in the Avant-Garde Circles of Wallace Berman
Through his father, Wallace, Tosh Berman was in the middle of a vivid circle of artists, writers, and musicians who regarded art as the opposite of cultural business.
Art
Fantasy and Reality Collide in Ka-Man Tse’s Queer Photography
Tse's photos establish fantasy as a premiere space for LGBTQ people when reality may not be as welcome.
News
An Ancient Egyptian Tablet Is Repatriated, and a Daniel Ridgway Knight Painting Is Discovered and Sold
Plus, Germany returns a Nazi-looted Thomas Couture work to its rightful heirs, and National Museums Scotland acquire a rare longitude pendulum sea clock.
Comics
A Dad Comes to Terms with His Child’s Love of Art
"Hey, kiddo! Whatcha drawin'?"