Value and Its Sources: Slavery and the History of Art
Two recent volumes examine the intersecting histories of art and slavery.
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Manet
Was Manet Ever Truly Modern?
Critics and art historians often take Édouard Manet to be the first master of reification, the original modern painter. Evidence of that mastery is intermittent at best in the exhibition "Manet and…
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“Posing Modernity: The Black Model From Manet and Matisse to Today”
"Posing Modernity," an interventionist exhibition curated by art historian Denise Murrell, proposed a counter-narrative of modernism rooted in the legacy of Laure, the model for the black maid in…
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The Long Island Art Vortex: A Conversation with Daniel Heidkamp
Through stylistic exaggeration, Heidkamp's work shows both a timelessness inherent to the landscape and hints of a change yet to come.
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‘Let’s Break the Internet!’: The Artist Project at the Met
“This!” Deborah Kass said to me last Wednesday evening, as if it were obvious. We were standing on the steps of the Temple of Dendur, trading favorite museums. She gestured at the sprawl of…
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Led by Record $65M Manet, Christies Solid Impressionist Sale Tallies $165M
On her way out of the salesroom, New York dealer Dominique Lévy pronounced the sale "tame but good, very consistent."
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Impressionist Gift to Denver Art Museum
Works by van Gogh, Cézanne and Monet are part of the largest gift of artworks ever received by the Denver Art Museum.
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It’s Manet Mania Weekend at Yale!
On the 150th birthday of Manet's two most scandalous paintings, a show and a conference track the afterlives of the nudes, the dudes, the maid, and the cat
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Taking Cat Art Seriously
From a provocative upcoming Metropolitan Museum show to adoption-ready "purr-formers," the art world is exploring the shock of the mew
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Saul Nash Really Wants to Move Equinox Members With New Collaboration
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s One-of-a-Kind Circular Sun House Lists in Arizona
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Win AD’s Founders Bank on Public Disclosure. What Are They Hiding?
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