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This week, architect Frank Lloyd Wright talks about the corner window, which he says is "an idea conceived early in my work that the box is a fascist symbol," the mess that Mark Rothko's suicide created, the first signs of street art about the UK riots, discovering work from the master of correspond
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You may know Qatar as the home of Al Jazeera but this small kingdom in the Persian Gulf is proving itself a major contemporary art buyer, according to the Art Newspaper.
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This week… the Rothko Chapel at 40, artists and their audiences, Ai Weiwei 25 yrs ago, ageism & photographers, honeybees & humans design together, the commerce of fan art, Tintoretto at the Venice Biennale, AIDS at 30, IBM & the Met collaborate to preserve art, Kickstarter is the 3rd largest comic b
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Washington, DC is a great museum town. During my dozen or so trips over the years I have yet to see all the Smithsonian institutions so I didn't feel the need to ventured far from The Mall for my art fix. This time I avoided the Smithsonian all together and headed for one situated in the Dupont Circ
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The Rothko Chapel, a non-denominational devotional space in Houston, Texas, is home to fourteen dark canvases by Mark Rothko. Visitors come to the chapel for all sorts of reasons, from meditation to art appreciation. Check out this NPR piece for a few of the stories of the Rothko Chapel's visitors.
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Until an artist version of Cribs is invented, the best way we can get inside an artist's life and work is to get inside their studios. Photographs of artists in their studios are kind of like snapshots of an artistic career, a whole body of work compressed into a single room. A working and living sp
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At the Boston Museum of Fine Arts' new Wing of the Americas, the story of American art is told over the course of four floors, ranging from colonial and indigenous art through modernism. Stopping before contemporary, the third floor above ground level is the home of American modernism. The opening g
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There's no point in giving you a "review" of the mothership of art fairs in Miami, Art Basel Miami Beach, so I thought a photo essay with some observations were more appropriate. I admit that I got a little bored after three hours of wandering around. I found myself seeing the same thing and getting