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The Onassis Cultural Center NY is showcasing four decades of archaeological findings from Dion, the ancient Greek village that tried to get as close to the gods as possible by building shrines and structures on the slopes of Mount Olympus.
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LOS ANGELES — Paintings about painting are really about life, proposals for how it might be lived.
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The daughter of a pastelist and a hairdresser, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842) painted and befriended Marie Antoinette, escaped the horrors of the French Revolution, and forged a career as one of the 18th-century’s greatest portraitists.
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BERLIN — The interplay of flatness and dimensionality in Franka Hörnschemeyer’s site-specific installations yields images seemingly more penetrable than the adjacent structures.
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Andrew Wyeth was not fond of self-portraits, and they rarely appear in his long career in 20th-century realism.
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The poet James Schuyler once described the tidal influence that the New York art world had on the poetry he and his friends were writing as "floods of paint in whose crashing surf we all scramble."
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For the wealthy 19th-century elite, a portrait rendered by a respected artist was a signifier of status — an oversized and ostentatious calling card.
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In the largely uncharted technology of virtual reality, artists must invent the medium as they engage with it.
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A spiraling 1955 house that was considered one of the icons of 20th-century organic modernism has been destroyed.
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Greenish grime coats the prongs of a silver fork that Prince Harry used at a banquet in 2013.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — To say that gun violence is an affliction of American society is a radical understatement, whether you go by the statistics or the frequency of mass shooting incidents.
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"Go to your happy place," the game attendant told me as the digital kitchen on my screen filled with milk and I was drowning.