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How Marc Chagall’s Daughter Smuggled His Artwork to the US

by Hakim Bishara September 23, 2019September 24, 2019

Letters penned by Marc Chagall reveal his immigration difficulties to New York during World War II and his concern for his daughter who followed him on a separate ship, carrying a large case of his works.

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The Metropolitan Museum Shrouded a Mark Chagall Painting to Draw Attention to World Refugee Day

by Hakim Bishara June 20, 2019June 20, 2019

The museum shrouded the painting to ask the question: “What would the Met’s walls look like if there were no refugees?” Works by other famous artists including Max Ernst, Piet Mondrian, and Mark Rothko are labeled as works “made by a refugee.”

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The Soviet Art School that Cemented Suprematism’s Spot in History

by Zachary Small September 27, 2018September 26, 2018

For a brief moment, Soviet Russia looked like Camelot, and artists like Marc Chagall, Kazimir Malevich, and El Lissitzky banded together to paint the way toward that utopian future with the People’s Art School in modern-day Belarus.

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An Art School Started by Marc Chagall that Became a Modernist Wasteland

by Wilson Tarbox July 11, 2018

The Centre Pompidou examines the thrilling but lesser-known story of the People’s Art School, founded in 1918 by the painter Marc Chagall in his hometown of Vitebsk.

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National Gallery of Canada Plans to Sell a Chagall So It Can Buy a Jacques-Louis David [UPDATED]

by Claire Voon April 17, 2018April 27, 2018

The museum wants to prevent the David from leaving Canada — but it may face a bidding war with other Canadian museums.

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Stage Struck: Marc Chagall’s Theatrical Designs

by Douglas Messerli December 10, 2017October 19, 2021

Chagall’s dynamic costumes and experimental sets inspire a reconsideration of his entire body of work.

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A Botanical Garden Blooms with Chagall

by Sarah Rose Sharp April 17, 2017April 18, 2017

It is no small feat that Marie Selby Botanical Gardens managed to provide a new perspective on an exhaustively studied painter and perennial favorite of the art world.

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From a Synagogue to a Pizzeria, an Alternative Tour of Stained Glass in NYC

by Allison Meier August 11, 2015August 12, 2015

Although it’s an art form more associated with medieval cathedrals, there is stunning stained glass in New York City.

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Art Historical Babies Past and Present

by Kyle Chayka October 8, 2010November 5, 2010

Adele Enersen photographs her dozing daughter Mila in a variety of poses and scenes, often drawn from art history. The visual similarities between her homemade work and her sources is pretty cool, as is its relationship to art history. What other options for inspiration could Enersen pursue?

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