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The ARTnews Guide to Cubism
Cubism signaled a seismic break with artistic tenets that had held sway since the Renaissance.
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The Best 2023 Children’s Books About Artists
Every child starts out as an artist, bringing home drawings and ceramics that wind up occupying pride of place on the family’s refrigerator door or mantelpiece. Of course, not every kid…
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Who Was Andy Warhol, and Why Was He So Important?
Warhol's biographical details are concrete enough, but he remains a cipher.
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7 Essential Paintings by El Greco and Where You Can Find Them
Few artists among the Old Masters produced work as startlingly fresh to contemporary eyes as Doménikos Theotokópoulos (1541–1614), a Greek transplant to the Iberian city of Toledo who’s better known…
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The ARTnews Guide to Performance Art, Part One: 1700s–1920s
The story of performance art is as complicated as the category itself.
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Five Essential Paintings by Manet and Where You Can Find Them
These days, nobody gives much thought to the idea of artistic practice fitting into an overriding narrative of historical progress. The current scene is liberating if shapeless, as artists work from…
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15 Essential Works by Photographer Gordon Parks, Who Chronicled African American Life
To call Gordon Parks a Renaissance man would be a massive understatement.
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The ARTnews Guide to Abstract Expressionism
By the time the Second World War ended, in 1945, some 70–85 million people had died, and cities across Europe and Asia were left in ruins. Economies were devastated in countries around the…
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How I Made This: Karla Knight’s Otherworldly Art
Seeing Karla Knight’s art for the first the first time, you might think that her work was the product of an outsider artist who’d experienced a close encounter of the third kind. But you’d be…
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