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How Basquiat Became the $60 Million Man
How did a young graffiti rebel go from selling drawings for $50 in 1980 to having a painting come up for auction this week at a staggering $60 million?
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Ana Mendieta
(1948–1985)
It’s commonplace to note when exhibitions offer a timely opportunity to reconsider an artist’s work, but in Ana Mendieta’s case such observations are as disturbing as they are apt.
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Hiëronymus Bosch
Hiëronymus Bosch, also spelled Jheronimus Bos, pseudonym of Jeroen van Aeken, Aeken also spelled Aquen or Aken...
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The beauty of human decomposition
According to the Wellcome Collection, Kusozu: the death of a noble lady and the decay of her body was painted some time in the 18th century…
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Art in Review;
Danny Lyon
Biking looms large in the photographs of Danny Lyon a photo-documentarian, writer and filmmaker whose close-up-and personal shots of his fellow…
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A Digital Archive of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, From Graffiti to Music
The rich online resource, spearheaded by researcher Nicola Pratt, reveals how culture was “an outlet” for political views during the revolution and its aftermath...
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Elizabeth Catlett: a Sculptor with Eye on Social Issues
Elizabeth Catlett, whose abstracted sculptures of the human form reflected her deep concern with the African-American experience and the struggle for civil rights, died on Monday at her home in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where she had lived since the late 1940s...
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New Objectivity Artists Exposed the Decadence and Hypocrisy of German Society
Many German artists entered World War I enthusiastically, believing it would bring about positive social change...
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