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The Broad’s Shirin Neshat Show Is the Most Significant Look at the Iranian...

This is the first time a major survey of Neshat’s work will bring together all three subsets of her groundbreaking 'Women of Allah' series.

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Ruby City Is a New Museum Designed by David Adjaye, Built by San Antonio...

Ruby City was the brainchild of collector Linda Pace who died in 2007. In the years since, San Antonio has come together to make her dream museum a reality.

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The Latest Google Doodle Honors Joseph Plateau’s Contributions to GIF Culture

Born in 1801, Plateau created a spinning device that generated an illusion of objects and figures in motion.

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Hank Willis Thomas’ Unflinchingly Honest Art Embarks on a Museum Tour

One of America's master storytellers, Hank Willis Thomas became famous for coopting the visual language we use to communicate powerfully and instantly: advertising.

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Rihanna’s Version of a Memoir Will Be Filled With Work by the World’s Best...

Bookstores like the Strand are encouraging people to preorder, as only a limited number will be up for grabs.

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Brooklyn Museum Hopes to Sell Francis Bacon Painting for $8M to Fund Major...

It's one of only six of Bacon's 'Tangier Paintings' that survived the artist's destruction; nevertheless, the museum says it's not a priority.

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Artists Pay Tribute to Wu-Tang Clan in a Limited Edition Series of Prints...

Artists like Hank Willis Thomas, Tiff Massey and Baseera Khan have made work directly inspired by the hip-hop group's classic music.

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Flatiron Apartment Belonging to Picasso Historian and Collector John...

Richardson, who had endless enthusiasm for great works of art and the artists who created them, wrote the famous multi-volume biography 'A Life of Picasso.'

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Could David Hockney’s ‘Sur la Terrasse’ Exceed Its $45M High Estimate at...

Hockney is 82 years old and has drawn increasingly higher auction prices in the last couple of years, setting the record for a living artist at $90M just last year.

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Art Storage Workers Attempting to Unionize Get Help From Julia Salazar

The sophisticated art storage facilities of UOVO are popping up all over New York, placing increasing pressure on the workers who move and handle the art itself.

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Ready to Meet the New MoMA? You’ll Need More Time—and Money—Than Ever Before.

Why the newly expanded Museum of Modern Art is a little like Ikea, a little like the old MoMA, and impossible to see in only one day.

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Leo DiCaprio Isn’t the First Celebrity to Get a Wax Portrait Done by Urs Fischer

It sounds like Fischer gets asked to make his wax portraits all the time. For Leo, he was happy to comply...so long as the actor agreed to pose with his parents.

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Basquiat’s Days as a Struggling Artist Are Revealed in a Movie Featuring His...

Newly restored, the movie 'Downtown '81' features Basquiat as a struggling artist trying to sell a painting just to make rent.

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The Met’s ‘Renaissance of Etching’ Exhibition Makes 15th Century Problems...

The village idiot, for example, was a favorite subject of artists working around the time of Albrecht Dürer and Lucas van Leyden.

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Kamel Mennour Reflects on Transforming France’s Art Scene

In 20 years, Kamel Mennour went from selling art in shopping malls to becoming one of France’s most famous gallerists. His strategy might surprise you.

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NBCUniversal Exec Ron Meyer Isn’t the First Collector to Be Duped by a Fake...

Meyer is suing for $10 million—what the work would be valued at today were it a genuine Rothko. He's owned it for almost 20 years.

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Jennifer Lawrence’s Wedding Revives Hollywood’s Love Affair With the Art World

Wedding bells for Jennifer Lawrence and Dasha Zhukova provided the perfect event for A-listers to show off in front of artists.

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Instagram Wants to Be More Artist-Friendly: Here’s What It Needs to Do

Instagram reportedly held a closed-door meeting with artists and museum bigwigs to discuss changing the platform's policies when it comes to nudity.

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Meet the New Foundation Dedicated to Art Made Out of Light

What is light art, you ask? Berlin's new foundation, LAS Light Art Space, debuts with a roster of exhibitions to bring attention to the niche medium.

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Two Leading Filmmakers Team Up on an Experimental Work About African American...

Cinematographer Bradford Young, known for 'Arrival' and 'Solo: A Star Wars Story,' and Elissa Blount Moorhead debut their collaborative experimental film, 'Back and Song.'

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