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The Cindy Sherman Effect

By Posted 02/14/12
Cindy Sherman, Untitled 474, 2008.

By inventing her own genre, Cindy Sherman has influenced the way generations of artists think about photography, portraiture, narrative, and identity Read More

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All Dressed Up

By Posted 02/07/12
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As more and more art museums showcase high fashion, their staffs are grappling with strategies for presenting it, funding it, and connecting it to their missions Read More

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A Scene Grows in Brooklyn

By Posted 01/24/12
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Artists by the hundreds have been flocking to Bushwick, a working-class neighborhood just east of trendy Williamsburg. Curators, collectors, and dealers are following Read More

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American Art, Alice Walton’s Way

By Posted 01/12/12
The Crystal Bridges Museum, designed by Moshe Safdie. Some of the pavilions seem to float on water diverted from a nearby stream.

The Walmart heiress’s controversial museum opens with an inclusive and even quirky selection of American art that reveals an increasing focus on the present Read More

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The Artist as Philanthropist

By Posted 01/09/12
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At a time when government and corporate support is decreasing, artists’ foundations are becoming increasingly influential Read More

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Seeing Still for the First Time

By Posted 01/05/12
Installation view of the inaugural exhibition. Natural light enters the galleries through a series of skylights over a cast-in-place perforated convex ceiling.

The new museum dedicated to Clyfford Still in Denver presents an unprecedented sweep of his work—even as its staff continues to make more discoveries Read More

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When Satire Becomes Art

By Posted 12/20/11
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The long and lively history of political caricature  Read More

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MoMA’s Problematic Provenances

By Posted 11/17/11
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Behind a lawsuit brought against the Museum of Modern Art by the heirs of George Grosz lies a troubling history of acquiring works seized by the Nazis and sold to support the German war effort Read More

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Backdrops, Blobs, Pods, and Props

By Posted 11/10/11
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The Walker Art Center celebrates its acquisition of a trove of objects documenting artists’ collaborations with Merce Cunningham in a series of groundbreaking shows Read More

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CHINA The Next Generation

By Posted 10/06/11
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China’s younger artists are introspective, sophisticated, and hyper-aware of their identity in a globalized world Read More