The Art

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Irving Petlin’s Haunted Visions of History

Irving Petlin’s Haunted Visions of History

In his paintings and pastels, the artist-activist turned to symbolism, metaphor,...

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Salvaging the Historic Tiles of California’s Burned Fireplaces

Salvaging the Historic Tiles of California’s Burned Fireplaces

After devastating fires blazed through the region, residents are holding on to the...

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The Encampments Documentary Tells Columbia It’s Not Over Yet 

The Encampments Documentary Tells Columbia It’s Not Over...

A new film extricates the movement from the grips of mainstream and conservative...

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Researchers Discover Joan Miró Painted Over a Portrait of His Mother 

Researchers Discover Joan Miró Painted Over a Portrait...

The revelation comes almost 50 years after the artist’s foundation first detected...

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Artist Pulls Out of Harvard Talk Over Academic Freedom Concerns

Artist Pulls Out of Harvard Talk Over Academic Freedom...

The university was meant to host artist Janiva Ellis in conversation with art historian...

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An Artist’s Thirty-Year Affair With Copper

An Artist’s Thirty-Year Affair With Copper

No Man’s Land, Pakistani artist Amin Gulgee’s first comprehensive monograph, maps...

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Thai Collective Wins 2025 Taoyuan International Art Award Grand Prize

Thai Collective Wins 2025 Taoyuan International Art Award...

Organized by the Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts, the TIAA drew over 1,000 entries from...

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NOMA Highlights Contemporary West African Masquerade Artists

NOMA Highlights Contemporary West African Masquerade Artists

On view at the New Orleans Museum of Art from April 4 through August 10, the exhibition...

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Bruce Nauman Asks if Art Can Exist Without a Viewer

Bruce Nauman Asks if Art Can Exist Without a Viewer

His art cuts to the core of our engagement with art past and present, looking at...

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What Does It Mean to Really Be Seen?

What Does It Mean to Really Be Seen?

Perhaps Abraham Lincoln Walker invented these people and the stories that brought...

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Meet Bai Jo the Fish, Scholar-in-Residence at a Maryland Museum

Meet Bai Jo the Fish, Scholar-in-Residence at a Maryland...

The bubble-headed goldfish questions if only humans can be artists.

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Republican-Led Bill Would Penalize Texas Museums for “Obscene” Art 

Republican-Led Bill Would Penalize Texas Museums for “Obscene”...

The proposed legislation comes after police seized photographs by Sally Mann from...

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Organizations Lose Pivotal Grants as DOGE Takes Axe to Humanities Agency

Organizations Lose Pivotal Grants as DOGE Takes Axe to...

Museums, libraries, and archives are receiving grant termination notices immediately...

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Max Kozloff, Intrepid Art Critic and Photographer, Dies at 91

Max Kozloff, Intrepid Art Critic and Photographer, Dies...

The prolific writer penned a seminal essay on Abstract Expressionism in 1973, going...

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Weegee, the Pop Artist That Never Was

Weegee, the Pop Artist That Never Was

By embracing horror through the larger-than-life persona he constructed, the photographer...

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The Violent and Sensual Bodies of Galli

The Violent and Sensual Bodies of Galli

The artist’s ambiguous figures exist in a continual state of metamorphosis between...