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A Luminous Look at Turner’s Port Paintings

by Allison Meier February 22, 2017February 22, 2017

An exhibition at the Frick Collection unites for the first time three of J.M.W. Turner’s 1820s port paintings, created in an age of newly open borders in Europe.

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J.M.W. Turner’s Unloved Late Paintings; or, The Whales

by Allison Meier July 8, 2016July 14, 2016

Some days ago — never mind the count — having not much purpose in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and nothing in its galleries otherwise to interest me, I thought I would wander a little and found myself in the most watery part of the institution.

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J.M.W. Turner to Light Up the British £20 Note

by Allison Meier April 26, 2016April 26, 2016

J.M.W. Turner, the great English landscape painter who obsessed over light, will be featured on the new £20 banknote in the UK.

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The Met Breuer Traces the Unfinished to the Deliberately Incomplete in Western Art

by Elisa Wouk Almino March 15, 2016March 15, 2016

At a press preview earlier this month, Sheena Wagstaff, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s chairwoman for modern and contemporary art, said that “arguably only the Met” could put on a show like Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible.

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Crimes of the Art

by Benjamin Sutton June 16, 2015June 17, 2015

On this week’s art crime blotter: Brigitte Bardot goes after artist for using her image, tourists snap naked group photo on sacred Malaysian mountain, and Russia crucifies trash Jesus.

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Saving the Only Building Painter J.M.W. Turner Ever Completed

by Laura C. Mallonee January 27, 2015January 30, 2015

“Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed,” J.M.W. Turner once said.

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