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In this week's Twitter-heavy edition, the world's second largest diamond, reviewing American Dirt, gentrification and the Istanbul Biennial, Twitterstorians, emoji RIPs, and more.
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Looking at Monet as the Planet Burns
At Giverny, by rendering landscapes of his own creation, Monet was not so much replicating nature as, in a sense, collaborating with it.
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Two Aboriginal Artists Pay Tribute to Their Homeland
A tree is never just a tree, a water source is never just a water source in the works of Barbara Moore and Sharon Adamson. “They’re all signs of ancestral action.”
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Picasso, Paper Monster
Paper, in short, was at one with Picasso's nature.
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A Contemporary Master of the Brushstroke
David Reed has figured out how to bring illusionism back into an abstract painting while remaining committed to paint-as-paint.
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New US Space Force Logo Looks a Lot Like Star Trek's Starfleet Logo
The new logo seems to appeal to kids who want to grow up and join the fictional Starfleet Academy.
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Tiepolo, Once Dubbed the Greatest Painter in Venice, Gets a Retrospective
For Tiepolo: The Best Painter of Venice, the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart has gathered together much of the artist’s finest work, including a choice selection of his portraits and many of his paintings on religious, historical, and mythological themes.
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50 Artists Remind Us That "Abortion Is Normal"
The second half of a recent exhibition organized to raise awareness and funding in support of accessible, safe, and legal abortion opened this past Tuesday at Arsenal Contemporary.
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Stolen Deities Resurface in a Dallas Museum
A blogger’s shaky snapshots from an exhibition opening reveal where a Lakshmi-Narayana statue stolen from a temple in Kathmandu in 1984 had ended up: the Dallas Museum of Art.
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The Unbridled, Exceptional Techniques of Nicolas Moufarrege
It’s not just that Moufarrege broke rules key to representational fidelity; he did it so elegantly that the rules thereafter seem like arbitrary ways of holding back a sensibility best left unrestrained.
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An Art Fair Where You Can Buy a Steer and a Painting in the Same Venue
“It’s not cowboy art, it’s not parlor art, it is a nuanced view of the American landscape," said one artist at the Coors Western Art Exhibit and Sale, where collectors gather see art that connects them to a person, a memory, or a community they value.
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An Art Movement Unapologetic About Love and Pleasure
Artists of the Pattern and Decoration movement expanded our perceptions around what is worthy of being called art.