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Caught Up in Rosalyn Drexler's Dramatic Moments
WALTHAM, Mass. — Who Does She Think She Is? is a remarkable monographic exhibition of Rosalyn Drexler’s varied work.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, artists make work in PowerPoint; the New-York Historical Society displays a vast collection of folk art; I, your humble author, offer free financial advice; and more.
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The Life of One of the 20th Century’s Most Influential Nude Models
"That which is the immodesty of other women has been my virtue — my willingness that the world should gaze upon my figure unadorned," Audrey Munson, the favorite nude model of the Beaux Arts movement in the United States, once proclaimed.
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YouTube Pranksters Sentenced to Jail for Faking Art Heists at Museums
A group of British pranksters is facing jail time for staging a fake art robbery in the National Portrait Gallery last July, proving the consequences of going to pointless lengths to attain internet virality.
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Smithsonian Doubles Its Bill Traylor Holdings Ahead of 2018 Retrospective
Bill Traylor's drawings and paintings were not recognized by the art world until decades after his death in 1949.
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A Three-Story Web Ensnares an Abandoned Building's Past Lives
PITTSBURGH — Inside 516 Sampsonia Way, a 19th-century row house in the Mexican War Streets neighborhood, there no longer appear to be any 90-degree angles.
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W.A.G.E. Calls for New Museum to Fully Compensate Artists
Artist advocacy group Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.) is calling for the New Museum to receive certification to ensure all its artists earn fair pay as the building plans for expansion, funded by an ongoing $80 million capital campaign.
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Exhibition at Harwood Museum Looks at Mabel Dodge Luhan, Pioneer of "Southwest Modernism"
Luhan influenced legions of European and American movers and shakers, including D.H. Lawrence, Georgia O’Keeffe, Ansel Adams, John Marin, John Collier, Marsden Hartley, Paul Strand, and Andrew Dasburg, to find in northern New Mexico’s physical and cultural landscapes new aesthetic, social, and cultu
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Reflections on My Great Aunt, an Artist Who Painted for No One but Herself
The week after her death, my family went to Great Aunt Afrodite's house to sort through her belongings, including hundreds of watercolors and sketches that none of us had ever seen before.
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The Artist Bringing Neon Icebergs to the Arctic Circle
ISTANBUL — Bahar Yürükoğlu makes icebergs bleed neon colors.
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Boston Artist Builds "Smallest House in the World," Rents It on Airbnb
By the logic of the tiny house movement, a whimsical architectural response to the housing crisis, tinier is better, right?
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China Will Publicly Shame Vandals Who Tag Mount Everest Base Camp
For those temped to leave graffiti on the base camp of the Chinese side of Mount Everest, known as Mount Qomolangma, think again: your name may appear on a public list, distributed to and publicized by news outlets.