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Rare portrait of 19th-century enslaved man named Frederick sells to unknown buyer at New Orleans auction
Rare, problematic portrait of 19th-century enslaved man named Frederick sells to unknown buyer at New Orleans auction for ...
A Fungi Pioneer’s Lifelong Work on Exhibit
Murals made by museum artists illustrate the biology of fungi, the role they play in the ecosystem and their evolutionary ...
A peek inside the revamped Frick Collection — opening this month after a five-year, $220M renovation
The Frick Collection is back this month after a five-year, $220 million renovation that nearly doubled its gallery footprint ...
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Are Hairstyles the Key to Unlocking Art History’s Most Famous Portraits?
Grand portraiture is a minefield for some noteworthy hair. Portraitists such as Thomas Gainsborough and Anthony Van Dyck paid ...
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See These Newly Restored Massive Paintings Devoted to a Hindu God
The artworks, part of a new exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, help shed light on a traditional ...
In the Curator’s Words: At the Timken, looking at art through a modern lens
Timken Museum revisits Bierstadt’s 19th-century masterpiece “Cho-looke, the Yosemite Fall” through Monkman’s 2012 work, “The ...
An art critic’s guide to Paris, from the Louvre to Dali
To some, Paris is the City of Light. To others, it’s the City of Love. But to art lovers, it’s simply the city of art — and ...
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Photo shows at Harvard’s Cooper Gallery and BRIDGE Gallery meditate on the meaning of memory
The show includes the work of 19 contributors, most of them contemporary photographers or video artists, though there’s also a set of portraits from a 19th-century photo studio and an album of ...