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Forensic Astronomer Pinpoints Monet Sunset
An astrophysicist at Texas State University has pinpointed the exact day and time when Monet observed the sunset that became the subject of his painting "The Cliff, Étretat, Sunset."
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Munch: More Than The Scream
OSLO — It’s everywhere in Oslo: greeting you at the airport and hanging in the train station, on billboards and in gift shops. It is perhaps the most famous art image of the twentieth century, and Norway is celebrating what would be the 150th birthday of its creator. Even when Edvard Munch (1863-194
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Munch and Warhol: An Unlikely Pair
Edvard Munch, tortured and brooding; Andy Warhol, detached and impenetrably cool. The two artists might not have gotten along well as studio mates, but as for aficionados of artistic repetition, they have a definite kinship.
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Manet, Munch, and Vermeer, Coming to a Theater Near You
If you live in the US, chances are you won't to make it to Manet: Portraying Life, a retrospective exhibition of the 19th-century painter's portraiture, on view at London's Royal Academy for just another four days. But you might be able to make it to your local movie theater tonight, where a kind of
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Overheard at The Scream
Smartphone pics aren't the only source of social media buzz circulating around Edvard Munch's "The Scream, currently at MoMA. The chatter on Twitter is pretty funny, intriguing, and sometimes revealing, even if some of it is not directly related (but funny nonetheless).
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MoMA's Hilariously Bizarre Silent Screams
With one version of Munch's renowned The Scream series on display at MoMA, New Yorkers and tourist are mimicking the bald figure's extreme expression much the way tourists to Oslo have long been doing — though some aren't very successful at it. Some people may think it's tacky, I think it's a scream
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Sandy and the Scream
Six days before all hell broke loose, I rode the subway uptown to attend the press preview of Edvard Munch: The Scream at the Museum of Modern Art. As the preview drew to a close and the already crowded room swelled with paying customers, I asked Ann Temkin, the Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Cu
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Traditional Chinese Painter Beats Munch for Fastest-Growing Auction Figures
Could traditional Chinese artists little known in the west take over the global art market? Bloomberg notes that auction price indexes for Li Keran, a prominent 20th-century Chinese landscape painter, are growing at a faster rate than Edvard Munch, the western master behind "The Scream," a version o
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The Scream Goes on View at MoMA on Oct 24
Edvard Munch’s iconic "The Scream" (1895), among the most celebrated and recognized images in art history, will go on view at The Museum of Modern Art for a period of six months beginning October 24.
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Edvard Munch's The Scream Is a New Yorker
We now know who owns Edvard Munch's 1895 pastel version "The Scream" that fetched $119.9m at auction earlier this year — New York financier Leon Black.
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Jerry Saltz Slams Tonight's Auction of Edvard Munch's Scream
Today, New York Magazine critic Jerry Saltz appeared on CBS This Morning to discuss tonight's Sotheby's auction of Edvard Munch's "The Scream." Saltz isn't a fan of the circus surrounding tonight's sale and he dislikes that the chatter is mostly about the projected price tag and not the art itself.
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How to Enjoy Your Rapture
Today is the day! You may have been praying your whole life for this moment and it has finally arrived. Now what? The anticipation may be getting to you but we suggest a few things you might want to try before you get whisked away to the bosom of God. Here are our top five.