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Stolen Matisse Returned to Venezuela
A Matisse painting valued at $3 million was returned to Venezuela yesterday, after disappearing from an art museum there at least a decade prior, Reuters reported.
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Painting Layered Portraits of Emotion
CHICAGO — Greetings, Margot Bergman's fourth solo exhibition at Corbett vs. Dempsey, feels like a gesture to the gesture in its titular painting.
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Delaware Art Museum Showcases Performance Art for the First Time
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First-ever Instagram Video Series Lampoons the Art World
The deadbeat artist. The streetside genius. The greedy gallerist and vacuous collector. Spend much time in the often elite and mystifying art world, and you're bound to discover some truth in each stereotype. But if you'd rather not, just watch Artistically Challenged, a comedic new "television seri
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Dress as Fine Art: 19th-Century Self-Improvement Manuals
In the 19th century, when books were more available to the public, titles on how to improve yourself were among the most prevalent. The New York Public Library's Art & Architecture Collection recently posted some of the more curious ones online.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, there's a lot of performance going on across New York, so we have prepared a shortlist of what is worth seeing. And may I suggest you check out the 10th Annual Hip-Hop Festival.
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Bringing Back a Lost Museum
In 1945, workers at Brown University's biology department were clearing out storage space when they stumbled on a giant trove of natural and ethnographic specimens and artifacts.
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This Journal Is Not a Market
LOS ANGELES — Here’s the problem: “It is how people come to see art as a tool, a flavor, or a device.” So says Charlie White, editor of The Enemy, a triannual online journal that publishes long-form essays on criticism, social science, poetry, celebrity, and other cultural interests.
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3D Printing Coney Island's Bygone Electric Eden
Luna Park at Coney Island was an "electric Eden" of spindly towers and ornate architecture laced with some 250,000 lights. The amusement park was closed in 1944 after a catastrophic fire, and mostly photographs remain. To recapture some of the lost wonder, artist Fred Kahl is building a 3D-printed f
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'The Shining' in Emoji Is Pretty Great
Emoji translation is a fine art. The first masterpiece of the genre was undoubtedly Emoji Dick (aka Moby Dick in emoji) by Fred Benenson, but since then there have been varying degrees of success at translating the true essence of a text into a string of mostly adorable symbols.
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Study Finds Making Art May Keep Our Brains Healthy
We've all heard about art's psychological and physiological effects. Researchers have found, for instance, that a lunchtime jaunt to an art gallery can reduce work-related stress, and that creating art might even help cancer patients. But what about art's neurological impact — can picking up a paint
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Extinct Feathers Flock Together at Smithsonian
Once ubiquitous in North America, by 1914 the population of passenger pigeons had been reduced by relentless hunting to a single bird named Martha at the Cincinnati Zoo. When Martha herself was found dead in her cage on September 1 of that year, she was packed on 300 pounds of ice and rushed to the