Art
El Greco came back from the dead. "The Greek," his real name, Domenikos Theotokopoulos, moved to Venice and Rome before finally settling in Toledo, where he became one of Spain's most well known painters.
Art
In 1950, when the painter Robert Motherwell invented the phrase "The School of New York," he summed up its mission as "an activity of bodily gesture serving to sharpen consciousness."
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In Europe, the self-taught French artist André Robillard is one of the best-recognized practitioners of this kind of art-making, although his achievements are still not so well known in the US, even among aficionados of outsider or self-taught art.
Books
The Alps today are different mountains from when the first 19th-century photographers hoisted heavy plate cameras up their craggy sides. Glaciers are in retreat, ski resorts are firmly lodged into slopes, and human infrastructure crawls back and forth steadily up their inclines.
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Al-Sultaniyah Madrasa, established in 1223 and containing the tomb of Sultan Saladin's son Sultan Malik al-Zaher, appears to have been destroyed. And it seems to have been military rather than sectarian destruction.
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The protests in Hong Kong and Ferguson, like so many others, were both characterized by a strong presence of artists. Members from both communities are now rallying to save these creations.
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Over a period of 50 years, the artist Mary Nohl transformed her yard as well as the interior and exterior of her cottage into an environment that stands in conversation with the surrounding land, lake, and her childhood memories. Almost immediately after the first cement sculptures materialized in t
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HO CHI MINH, Vietnam — The exhibition Come to [What] End? tackles big questions in the way that art does best.
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The director of the State Art Museum of Uzbekistan in Tashkent was sentenced today to nine years in prison for systematically replacing works from the institution's collection with fakes and selling off the originals over a 15-year period.
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Today a redesigned Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum opens its doors. Over the past three years the museum has completed an extensive physical renovation of its campus, the Carnegie Mansion, a National Historic Landmark building.
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This week in art news: A vandal was sentenced to five years in prison for punching a hole through a Claude Monet painting, a suit against Larry Gagosian was dismissed, and a Winnie-the-Pooh drawing sets an auction record for an original book illustration.