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Faith Ringgold Perfectly Captured the Pitch of America’s Madness
Ringgold’s landmark career was long ignored by the art establishment. But she kept going, mixing the...
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Israeli Artist Shuts Biennale Show, Urging Cease-Fire and Hostage Release
Ruth Patir, Israel’s representative at the Venice Biennale, says she won’t open her show in the...
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As Graffiti Moves From Eyesore to Amenity, Landlords Try to Cash In
Brands, developers and even city officials are embracing the global appeal of street art, but the...
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Opinion | An Idyll on the Shores of a Toxic Lake
The town of Bombay Beach, Calif., offers its residents a tight-knit community in the midst of...
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Laurent de Brunhoff, Artist Who Made Babar Famous, Dies at 98
After his father, who created the character, died, he continued the series of books about a...
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Andrew Crispo, Disgraced Manhattan Gallery Owner, Dies at 78
His fall from the pinnacle of the New York art world involved murder, torture, tax evasion,...
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Josette Molland, Who Told of Life in Nazi Camps Through Art, Dies at 100
She endured horrors as a captured member of the French Resistance, and to ensure that her...
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Opinion | When Artists Can’t Go Home, All That’s Left Is Their Art
Chaim Soutine’s identity was never integral to his art, even as a Jew whose death Nazis caused....
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Mysterious Pattern in a Cave Is Oldest Rock Art Found in Patagonia
About 8,200 years ago, in one of the last places settled by humans, prehistoric peoples began...
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Opinion | Mighty Shiva Was Never Meant to Live in Manhattan
After decades of plunder, museums are coming in for a reckoning. They should be thrilled.
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Rubin Museum, Haven for Asian Art, to Close After 20 Years
It is the first major art museum in New York to close within recent memory. The...
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National Gallery of Art Receives Major Gift of Joseph Cornell Boxes
Collectors give the museum 27 box constructions and collages by the homebody artist who rarely left...
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The Crochet Coral Reef Keeps Spawning, Hyperbolically
The long-running project, sometimes described as the environmental version of the AIDS quilt, thrives on convoluted...
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Indiana University Cancels Major Exhibition of Palestinian Artist
Samia Halaby, an 87-year-old artist, has been outspoken in her support of Palestinians during the Israel-Gaza...
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Using the Wyeth Art She Reveres to Rebuild a Lost Maine Waterfront
An heiress to the L.L. Bean fortune who made the paintings of N.C., Andrew and Jamie...
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Her Sculptures Were Ignored for 33 Years. Then She Got a New Roommate.
Hanna Eshel did not succeed in the New York art world. Her only reliable exhibit space...
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Pope.L, Provocative Performance Artist, Dies at 68
He is best known for crawling along the entirety of Broadway in Manhattan wearing a Superman...
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A.I. Can Make Art That Feels Human. Whose Fault Is That?
A fake Drake/Weeknd mash-up is not a threat to our species’s culture. It’s a warning: We...