Art
A Year in the Life of Pablo Picasso
An exhibition at the Musée National Picasso in Paris tracks the artist's life and work, month-to-month, in 1932.
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In Brief
In Greece, a Red-Winged Sculpture Is Exorcised and Destroyed
Religious conservatives condemned the red figure as satanic and yanked it from its pedestal, while a priest attempted to exorcise it.
Art
The Power of Protest One Year After the #J20 Art Strike
How have our ideas of strike and protest changed and what should we learn about their utility today?
News
New Dossier Shows British Museum Had a Role in Dealings Between BP and Russia
Newly public emails show correspondence between the museum, Russia's London embassy, British officials, and BP.
Art
A Somber Commemoration of the Partition of India, 70 Years Later
Zarina Hashmi speaks directly to the ongoing impact of the upheavals resulting from Partition.
News
French Experts Doubt Practicality of Bayeux Tapestry Loan
While news of the loan has been widely reported, conservation experts are concerned the promise just can't be fulfilled because of the state of the artifact.
Announcement
Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design at Georgia State University Now Accepting Applications
All MFAs receive full tuition waivers, 24-hour access studio space, and graduate assistantships.
Books
A Trove of Dadaist Fun Is Reissued
As part of the Dada centennial celebrations, Ugly Duckling Presse has published a 1000-copy, boxed-set, limited-edition facsimile of the two editions of The Blind Man, called The Blind Man: New York Dada, 1917.
In Brief
Hobby Lobby Turns Over 245 More Artifacts Smuggled Out of Iraq
Last year, the craft store chain agreed to hand over 5,548 antiquities that it had improperly imported.
Books
An Artist Repatriates the Body of Julia Pastrana, an Indigenous Mexican Woman Exhibited as a “Freak”
A new book chronicles how artist Laura Anderson Barbata led the repatriation and burial of Julia Pastrana, a 19th-century indigenous Mexican woman exhibited in life and death for her excessive hair.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: More women shared allegations of sexual misconduct by Chuck Close, a Christie’s employee and former CIA officer was arrested, and a Frank Lloyd Wright building was demolished.
Art
Mary Heilmann Disrupts the Rigid Systems of Abstraction
Heilmann’s paintings gleefully haunt those artworks which make claims on purity, autonomy, or clarity.