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Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
June 15, 2020The people of that ancient nation had been decimated in the opening genocide of modern times,...
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Brian Jungen: Strange Comfort at The National Museum of the American Indian
June 14, 2020The first piece you see upon entering is Shapeshifter (2000), an enormous, abstracted whale skeleton built...
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The Barnes Foundation: Beauty Surrounded by Controversy
June 11, 2020And what a treasure trove! By the time of his death in 1951, Barnes had purchased...
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Ron Arad: No Discipline at MoMA
June 7, 2020The experience of viewing “No Discipline,” the first major U.S. retrospective of the virtuosic, Israeli-born designer...
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Francis Alÿs: Fabiola at the National Portrait Gallery, London
June 5, 2020Perhaps what fascinated him about these portraits was that they show this urge to create and...
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Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa by R.A. Scotti
June 2, 2020Not quite a century ago, on August 29, 1911, thousands of people began flocking to the...
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Satchmo: The Wonderful World and Art of Louis Armstrong by Steven Brower
May 31, 2020For someone who radiated pure joy, his beginnings were Deep South Dickensian. Born in New Orleans...
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Cézanne and Beyond at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
May 30, 2020Matisse, in an essay written many years later for another Philadelphia Museum of Art exhibition, appraised...
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Celebrating Galileo in Florence
May 29, 20202009 is officially “The Year of Astronomy,” commemorating Galilei’s first observation of the Moon through his...
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Rodchenko & Popova: Defining Constructivism, at the Tate Modern, London
May 28, 2020In 1921, the Constructivists announced the end of painting. To mark its passing they held the...