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After being damaged by a 2011 car bomb, some Brutalist architecture in Oslo is up for demolition. While the debate between the protection of Brutalist architecture and those who see its heavy concrete designs as ugly and bleak is not infrequent in preservation, these buildings include five murals by
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The greatest casualty of war is always human life, and there's no doubt that a saved painting can't account for a lost life. Yet the preservation of culture in wartime prevents a total loss of what gave a place its spirit and meaning.
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At about the same time Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock was losing himself to depression, Matisse's longterm relationship with his wife was unwinding, and when Mondrian was discovering Cubism, Miró was delving into Surrealism. All these little landmarks of 10 abstract painters' lives h
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In a statement released earlier this afternoon, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged Steven A. Cohen of SAC Capital with supervising, and profiting from, the insider trading of two of his employees. The move followed years of severe scrutiny for the Connecticut-based hedge fund m
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that Leonard A. Lauder has made a major donation of Cubist art that will transform New York's largest museum into a major center for Cubist art. The pledged gift is comprised of 78 works, including 33 works by Pablo Picasso, 17 by Georges Braque, 14 by Juan G
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CHICAGO — Sometimes it almost seems that at any time of the year, at some place in the world, there is a show of Picasso’s work on display somewhere.
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Sometimes it's better to be alone. Here are a few artists who we wouldn't particularly like to spend a romantic Valentine's Day with, from the over-sharing to the unstable to the plain unsettling.
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CHICAGO — When my wife was completing her mail-in voter ballot for the upcoming US elections, something on the instruction leaflet caught my eye.
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Last night and tonight, the Guggenheim is staging two special, performance-like readings of Pablo Picasso’s obscure play, “Desire Caught by the Tail,” as part of the museum’s Works & Process series.
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Picasso is renowned and celebrated for his paintings, prints, sculptures, ceramics and even stage designs. But it turns out that Picasso also wrote — two plays and hundreds of poems, to be exact, mostly during the 1940s and '50s.
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A Scottish airport has backtracked on its decision to cover up a poster promoting an exhibition at the Scottish Museum of Modern Art that featured Picasso's "Nude Woman In a Red Armchair" (1932).
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The first rule of social networking is that it's very hard to make things private. It's a decent bet that almost everything you post online is in some way accessible by people you don't necessarily want to see it. This leads us the related first rule of art vandalism: if you did it, don't claim it o