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Looking at Art

A Head of Its Time

By Posted 03/01/10

How a 500-year-old portrait sculpture made in what is now Nigeria changed the way people think about African art. Read More

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Dancing with Degas

By Posted 03/01/10

An exhibition explores Picasso's seven-decade obsession with a man he saw as not only an artistic predecessor but also a father figure. Read More

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Looking at Art

By Posted 11/01/06

Minding his A’s and E’s: How Saul Steinberg defined aesthetics in a nutshell. Read More

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Disharmony in the Concert

By Posted 06/01/06

His two Concerts show Titian imitating—and then turning away from—Giorgione. Read More

A marble head of Caracalla, made at the end of his life or shortly after his death, in A.D. 217, shows the emperor as a rough-and-ready soldier. COURTESY METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
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A Roman Emperor’s Tough Guy Image

By Posted 03/01/04

The Met’s portrait of Caracalla is a consummate example of art as propaganda Read More

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A Giant Zip for Mankind

By Posted 03/01/02

When Barnett Newman painted The Wild in 1950, he challenged current standards not only of how a painting could look but of what a painting could be. Read More

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Irving Penn’s Modern Venus

By Posted 02/01/02

In a photo recalling an ancient sculpture, he transformed a female nude into a timeless fertility goddess. Read More

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Underrated/Overrated

By Posted 12/01/00

Who are the great artists you never heard of? Who's hot who's not?. Read More