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Banksy Just Broke Another Auction Record With His ‘Balloon Girl’ Print

'Balloon Girl – Colour AP (Purple)' just sold for over a million dollars, and Banksy is expected to break another auction record when his painting 'Show me the Monet' hits the block next month.

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How a Mispronunciation of da Vinci’s Name on TikTok Took the Internet by Storm

A pair of twins guessing that the 'Mona Lisa' was painted by Mona Lisa will forever live in online infamy.

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‘The Artist’s Wife’ Pays Tribute to Overshadowed Female Artists

'The Artist's Wife,' starring Lena Olin and Bruce Dern, deals with the plight of being a lesser known partner to a successful male artist.

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A Philip Guston Retrospective Has Been Pushed to 2024, and the Art World Is...

Guston famously painted KKK figures in order to expose the horror of America's failures.

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Rosa Parks’ House Is on View in Italy, and Its Return to the US Is Uncertain

The American artist Ryan Mendoza has taken care of the house since 2008, and thinks it should be a civil rights monument.

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Curator Ebony L. Haynes to Lead New Zwirner Gallery With All-Black Staff

Curator Ebony L. Haynes joins David Zwirner as a director, and will soon open a new Black-run gallery in New York City.

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Edward Hopper’s Earliest Oil Works Are Copies of Other Paintings, Researcher...

A London graduate student discovered that Hopper had copied a couple of paintings out of 'The Art Interchange' magazine.

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Shamel Pitts Asks Important Questions of Dance’s Elite Institutions

A 2020 Guggenheim fellow and graduate of Julliard, dancer Shamel Pitts has spent a lot of time thinking about the issues of elite institutions.

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UK Government Threatens to Cut Funding From Museums That Remove Statues

Conservative Secretary of State Oliver Dowden told 26 museums to 'continue to act impartially, in line with your publicly funded status.'

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Black Photographers Discuss the Challenges and Necessity of Documenting Protests

Renowned Black photojournalists shared what they take into account when documenting Black Lives Matter protests, and the lessons this moment is teaching the broader community about race, respect and...

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Google Doodle Celebrates the Original Bobblehead

Affectionately referred to as 'Wackeldackel,' these wobbly dachshunds spawned a craze for toys that are now manufactured and collected all over the world.

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Painting Purchased for $60 in Australia Now Thought to Be a van Gogh

Art historian Andrew Mackenzie believes the painting could have been transported to Australia by van Gogh's friend John Peter Russell.

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Paul Giamatti’s Illustrations of Cranky, Mysterious Faces Are Being Shown in...

Giamatti recently revealed on the 'Late Show' that he's wanted to be an artist or an illustrator since he was a kid.

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Discover Virtual Artwork All Over New York City During Digital Art Month

Using scannable QR codes, New Yorkers will be able to reveal hidden virtual artwork all over the city.

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The Whitney Biennial Has Been Pushed to 2022 to Prioritize Delayed Exhibitions

Instead, other shows at the Whitney that had to be postponed or reorganized due to the pandemic will be prioritized.

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Denmark Opens a ‘Happiness Museum’ While U.S. Museums Wallow in Misery

Launched by Copenhagen's Happiness Research Institute, the museum will allow visitors to analyze happiness levels in different countries.

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David Hockney’s Paintings Are World Renowned, But He Never Lost His Desire to...

This isn't a show of Hockney's big, crowd-pleasing paintings that have sold for millions. Rather, the Morgan presents some of his most intimate works in 'David Hockney: Drawing from Life'

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Beyond Face Value: Why This Botticelli Portrait Is Worth $80 Million

The Sotheby's expert who determined Sandro Botticelli's 'Young Man Holding a Roundel' to be worth $80 million explains what goes into making that decision.

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Radical Theorist Fred Moten Among the 2020 MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant Winners

This year, the MacArthur Foundation chose to award a number of creatives whose theoretical and artistic outputs cannot be easily defined, as Fred Moten's work illustrates.

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Matisse’s Portrait of Henriette Darricarrère Shows a Quiet Side of His...

Estimated to sell for between $700,000 and $1,000,000, Matisse's painting of Henriette Darricarrère represents a crucial phase of the artist's development.

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