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The Woman Behind Michelangelo’s Cleopatra

By Posted 04/10/13

The grotesque figure on the back of Michelangelo’s famous Cleopatra drawing reveals an intimate story Read More

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Mind His Beeswax: Wolfgang Laib Is Everywhere

By Posted 03/13/13

Artist brings smell, warmth and light to museums, galleries in New York and D.C. Read More

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Gilty Pleasures: The Guggenheim Reframes Its Classics

By Posted 02/25/13

A team of experts at the Guggenheim is reframing modernist works from the Thannhauser collection in period frames dating back to the 17th century Read More

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Brancusi’s ‘Kiss’: A Never-Ending Embrace

By Posted 01/28/13

A visit to Montparnasse prompts a reflection on the refined abstraction and complex romance of a famous sensual sculpture
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Clyfford Still’s Figures Run Deep

By Posted 10/22/12

New scholarship on the artist’s early work reveals an unexpected ancestry to his trademark abstractions
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Alan Vlach, Cliff Walk, Near West Point, 2012.
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Homing in on Homer

By Posted 10/03/12

Five artists commissioned to shoot Winslow Homer’s studio bring a contemporary interpretation to a classic setting Read More

Northview, 2000. The arrangement of noncommunicative figures reflects the influence of Vuillard.
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Strange Bedfellows

By Posted 09/12/12

From Fairfield Porter to David Park to Lisa Yuskavage and Peter Doig, contemporary artists have been riffing on Vuillard Read More

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18th Century Fox

By Posted 07/26/12

Thomas Gainsborough painted songstress Elizabeth Linley not as a frivolous flower but as a new kind of woman Read More

Tiki, 19th century, from the Marquesas Islands.
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The Polynesian Connection?

By Posted 06/28/12

Polynesian objects were given equal status with Gauguin’s work in a groundbreaking and subversive exhibition Read More

An installation view of “Miss You”
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Twin Peaks

By Posted 06/19/12

Os Gêmeos bring street-art savvy to Brazilian folk tradition Read More

Cézanne’s The Large Bathers, 1906, devoid of slick finish and slick emotion, is rife with contradictions.
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Bathers But Not Beauties

By Posted 05/24/12

Cézanne’s nude figures in a landscape are meant to disturb rather than delight us Read More

Olson House, 2010. James Welling photographed the Maine house that appears in Andrew Wyeth’s Christina’s World, 1948. COURTESY THE ARTIST AND DAVID ZWIRNER, NEW YORK
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Wyeth Redux

By Posted 04/17/12

James Welling shoots sites in Wyeth’s world. Read More