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Rescuing Norman Rockwell's Progressive Legacy from a Right-Wing Cartoonist
The artist was no reactionary. He was a staunch liberal and a strong believer in an inclusive country.
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This week in art news: Paris will build a wall of bullet-proof glass around the Eiffel Tower, Israel's culture minister shut down a nonprofit gallery for hosting an anti-occupation group, and the UK placed an export bar on a Parmigianino recently purchased by the Getty.
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An Artist Mends Cracks in the Sidewalk with Gold
Inspired by the Japanese practice of ceramic repair, artist Rachel Sussman mends cracks in our urban environment with gold as part of her Sidewalk Kintsukuroi series.
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An Exhibition Examines the Executive Order that Interned Thousands of Japanese Americans
Instructions to All Persons at the Japanese American National Museum looks back at Executive Order 9066, which was signed by President Roosevelt 75 years ago.
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After an Earthquake Destroyed a Museum, an Artist Stepped in to Fill the Void
New Zealand’s Lyttelton Museum lost its building five years ago, but Julia Holden is giving it a public presence through a project focused on local history.
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Writers Pay Tribute to John Berger at McNally Jackson Bookstore
Hyperallergic editors Jillian Steinhauer and Elisa Wouk Almino have organized a tribute to John Berger on Monday, February 20.
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A New Louise Nevelson Biography Picks Apart the Artist's Contradictions
Laurie Wilson, practicing psychologist and art historian, has penned a new biography of the ground-breaking artist Louise Nevelson.
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After Her Work Was Misattributed to Men, a 19th-Century Woman Gets Her Due
A chance encounter with some 19th-century watercolors at Canada's Confederation Centre of the Arts revealed decades of misattribution for the work of a Victorian woman.
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The Only Known Film Footage of Marcel Proust, or Proust Descending a Staircase
In the first footage discovered showing Marcel Proust, he speedily descends a staircase at a wedding.
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How the Met's Sale of a Max Beckmann Painting Changed US Museums
Beckmann's "Self-Portrait with Cigarette" belonged to the Metropolitan Museum until 1971, when its deaccession set off a series of disputes that reshaped museum practices.
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The Banality of Concentration Camp Tourism
We are attracted to the places where bad things have happened, but we rarely reflect on what actually occurred therein.
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A Metal Prefab House from the 1930s Finds a Home in Palm Springs
This week, the 1931 metal Aluminaire House arrived in Palm Springs, where it will finally be reassembled after years in storage.