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Jackson Pollock's Renaissance Connection
FLORENCE, Italy — The city of Florence is paying homage to Jackson Pollock, well-known for his all-over syncretistic paintings, by connecting his work to that of Michelangelo’s.
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Why a Russian Nationalist Militia Took Over an Arts Center in Ukraine
An arts nonprofit in the Ukrainian region of Donetsk has found itself, and much of its collection, at the mercy of the Russian nationalist militia of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), an unrecognized self-declared body.
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Artistic Revelations from Ancient Southeast Asia
With Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia, 5th to 8th Century, the Metropolitan Museum of Art once again proves its stature as a world-class museum — not just because of its collections, size, or location, but because it is one of the few institutions in the world that can
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Marina Abramović Made a Film with ... Adidas?
First, there was the dance of death with Jay Z. Next was the confusing collaboration with Lady Gaga. Now, the grandmother of performance art has moved on to bigger and better brands things. Yes, for reasons unbeknownst to just about everyone, Marina Abramović has teamed up with Adidas to make a comm
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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.