LOS ANGELES — Paintings about painting are really about life, proposals for how it might be lived.
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Settlement Draws Near in Vivian Maier Copyright Fight
Part of the legal saga surrounding the estate of Vivian Maier is drawing to a close a year and a half after it began.
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Mapping Gentrification and Urban Resistance in Istanbul
ROME — “Urbanization has always been a class phenomenon of some sort,” David Harvey writes in Rebel Cities.
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A New Database Will Document the Burial Sites of US Slaves
A new project is giving slave burial grounds in the United States something they’ve long been deprived of: visibility.
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The Woman Who Found Abstraction Before the Modernists
LONDON — The first thought that struck me about the Serpentine Gallery’s exhibition of Swedish artist Hilma af Klint, Painting the Unseen, was: Thank goodness — finally a solo show starring a female artist!
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Thirty Years On, Colab Members Assess Their Successes and Failures
Last month, members of Colab gathered at Printed Matter for the opening of a new iteration of the A. More Store, the collective’s pop-up exhibit of cheap multiples. The display coincides with the publication of A Book About Colab (and Related Activities) (2015), a sumptuous collection of archival images and written accounts compiled by Printed Matter’s director Max Schumann.
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Turkish Government Censors Video Projection and Youth Biennial Artworks
ISTANBUL — This year hasn’t been particularly easy for members of the arts community in Turkey, as they have come increasingly under fire, facing growing censorship and cancellations of exhibitions.
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In Quest for Selfie, Tourist Scales and Smashes 126-Year-Old Statue
Another day, another unnecessary, accidental damage of art.
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‘Antiques Roadshow’ Mistakenly Values High School Art Project at $50,000
Recently on an episode of Antiques Roadshow, an art appraisal went very wrong.
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Required Reading
This week, the Pope in the Sistine Chapel, logo ripoffs, art’s connection to OxyContin, Saudi Arabia’s destruction of Yemeni cultural heritage, gender disparity in the art world, and more.
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The Fly in the Ointment: Lee Krasner
One view of Lee Krasner’s career is that there is no dramatic rupture marking the emergence of something new — at least not like the widely celebrated ones that occurred in the work of her husband, Jackson Pollock, or with Willem de Kooning, or, later, Philip Guston.
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Georgia on My Mind
O’Keeffe was different: she lived far away in a sun-baked universe. She was mysterious. She’d been married to Alfred Stieglitz and had maintained her identity and independence. She painted bones.
