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A Massive Larry Rivers Mural Is Restored
The 75-foot-long mural now gleams in a Philadelphia station, having undergone its first-ever restoration.
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Larry Rivers’s Unrelenting Passion for the Figure
(RE)APPROPRIATIONS at Tibor de Nagy exhibits Rivers's passion for and innate ability to paint figures convincingly, rendering them with sensitivity and expressiveness.
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Larry Rivers Foundation Sues Former Chelsea Hotel Owner
The Larry Rivers Foundation is suing developer Joseph Chetrit, the former owner of the Chelsea Hotel, over a missing painting that once hung in the hotel's lobby and that the foundation has been trying to recover for three years.
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It’s a Man’s World: Inside a Postwar Art Time Capsule
There may be some great-looking specimens of postwar art in Re-View: Onnasch Collection — an exhibition that turns Hauser & Wirth’s cavernous Chelsea outpost into a mini-museum offering the kind of intimate experiences that have been all but lost in New York’s uptown behemoths — but the show also ar
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Two Photographers Emerge from the Shadows with Over 400 Artist Portraits
Few people may know the names of Shunk-Kender, but the pair of photographers behind that hyphenated moniker have captured many of the most famous images of post-war modern and contemporary art in Paris and New York and together they documented many ephemeral events that would've been lost to history
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Larry Rivers Foundation Joins Fight to Find Chelsea Hotel Art
When all the art disappeared from the walls of the iconic Chelsea hotel last fall, where did it go? The Larry Rivers Foundation is the latest group trying to find out. Rivers’s “Syndics of the Drapery Guild as Dutch Masters,” a paint and wood piece that’s part of a series riffing on Rembrandt, is on
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The Overlooked Prints of the Abstract Expressionists
Tomorrow, Swann auction house will be presenting a sale, "Atelier 17, Abstract Expressionism & the New York School," which showcases the prints of the Abstract Expressionist era that are often overlooked because the larger, flashier paintings inevitably grab the spotlight. The sale has a particular
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Allen Ginsberg’s Beat Photographs on Display
I had no idea renowned beat poet Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) was an avid amateur photographer. A current exhibition [http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2010/ginsberg/index.shtm#] of his black and white snapshots are on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and they are annotated by Gi