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A Comic Book Character Seeks Sexual Empowerment in Postwar Italy
We’ve entered Valentina’s life so many times.
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See the Smithsonian Archive's Collection of Artists' Handwritten Letters
Whatever skeptics may say about the pseudoscience of graphology (handwriting analysis), it’s hard to deny that handwriting expresses feeling and style — especially, in many cases, when it’s the handwriting of an artist. Georgia O’Keeffe’s bold, squiggly lines and lack of punctuation ignored conventi
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Tunga, Brazilian Artist Known for His Alchemical and Monumental Work, Dies at 64
On Monday, Tunga, one of Brazil's most prized artists, died of cancer at the age of 64 in Rio de Janeiro, where he resided for most of his life.
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French Museum Faces "Cultural Catastrophe" After Storage Vault Floods
Recent heavy rainfall in France has led to dangerously high water levels, but while some Paris museums have managed to safeguard their collections, staffers at the Musée Girodet found themselves facing hundreds of water-damaged artworks.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, salsa dancing in a museum, learn from Martha Rosler about gentrification, talk about endangered languages with Mariam Ghani, explore Museum Mile, and more.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: a solid gold and diamond-encrusted statue of an eagle was stolen, a subversive Malaysian street artist was charged with "violating multimedia laws," and a gnome sculpture went missing.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, Daniel Rolnik Gallery holds an epic art carnival, Skylight Books hosts a discussion on art and gentrification, the Getty Center brings back its Friday Flights performance series, and more.
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Photographer Dennis Morris Sues Richard Prince Over Sid Vicious Images
Music photographer Dennis Morris is suing conceptual artist Richard Prince and his gallery, Gagosian, for copyright infringement.
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Extracting a Rainbow of Color from Invasive Plants
Every once in a while I see a show that makes me feel good, even hopeful about this overheated, self-aggrandizing, status-obsessed art scene in New York. Chroma Botanica: Ellie Irons & Linda Stillman was such an exhibition for me.
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Gazing at Photographs that Look At and Past Us
SAN FRANCISCO — “I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me […] It is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass,” Ralph Ellison’s narrator declares in Invisible Man.
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Rome’s New Subway Line Will Incorporate Freshly Discovered Ancient Ruins
Rome will have what city officials are calling its first "archaeological station" after a construction team recently uncovered 2nd-century CE Roman barracks during ongoing work on the city's third metro line.
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Cycling Through Tino Sehgal’s “Constructed Situations" in Marrakesh
MARRAKESH — As the afternoon sun radiated onto Jemaa el-Fna square in the old medina quarter of the city, nine bodies emerged before me on the ground, beatboxing and gyrating, surrounded by curious onlookers.