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In the catalogue accompanying the exhibition, Looking East: Brice Marden, Michael Mazur, Pat Steir, at the Boston University Art Gallery, John Stromberg opens his essay, “Michael Mazur: A Delicate Balance” with this sentence: “Michael Mazur’s path to his recent paintings based on Chinese art has bee
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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.
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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.
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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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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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Like many, Nevada-based artist Javier Sanchez was shaken by the disappearance and state-sanctioned murder of the 43 Mexican students this fall.
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Everett Kane and I got inspired to revisit the "Tree-Man" in the "Hell" panel of Hieronymus Bosch’s "Garden of Earthly Delights," whom some people claim is a self-portrait.
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"Artists, as we know, are notorious collectors, but you always wonder what came first, the chicken or the egg."
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HANOI — The first thing that struck me about this city was the noise. I arrived by a sleepy overnight train from China, where most of the scooters I'd seen were silent electric bikes. Here the noise was deafening.
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In the midst of the recent amazing outpouring of street presence supporting black lives, on Monday night I had an opportunity to witness something a little quieter. Willing Participant, a performance group led by artists Todd Shalom, Ben Weber, and Niegel Smith of Elastic City, held a simple public