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The Neoclassical Painter Lost to History
An exhibition outlines 19th-century artist Guillaume Lethière’s connection to his birthplace, mixed-race heritage, and the politics of revolution.
The Clark Art Institute
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Kathia St. Hilaire Collages the Complex History of Haiti
Like the narratives she portrays, St. Hilaire’s artistic technique is layered and complex, and reflects vernacular cultural aesthetics and practices.
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Ecology From the Perspective of the Marginalized
Humane Ecology at the Clark Art Institute asks viewers to consider different interpretations of nature, including those of people who have been marginalized, silenced, and erased.
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Nikolai Astrup’s Enchanted Norway
There is not a hint of psychological trauma in Astrup’s art, despite the parallels in his own experience to that of his countryman Edvard Munch.
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The Trouble with Renoir’s Nudes
Renoir: The Body, The Senses makes some attempts, vain in my opinion, to present Renoir as a politically progressive artist, even a closet feminist.
In Brief
US Museum Asks Far-Right German Party to Stop Using Its Painting for an Election Ad
The campaign, funded by the Alternative for Germany party, features the 1866 painting "Slave Market" with the caption, "So that Europe won't become Eurabia."