Inhaling New York: The Always-Smoking German Modernist Max Beckmann Takes Refuge in New York
Through February 20, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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‘There Is Something Very Vital Here in America’: Max Beckmann on Teaching in New York, in 1951
With the Metropolitan Museum of Art having just opened a show dedicated to Max Beckmann’s brief time in New York, from 1949 until his death in 1950, we turn back to the March 1951 issue of…
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Retrospective: Ed Ruscha Takes California into the ’90s
And other excerpts from our coverage 100, 75, 50, and 25 years ago
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Hitler’s Nude Nymphs to Go on View at Neue Galerie
A painting once owned by Adolf Hitler will soon be on view in New York.
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A New York Beckmann, For Sale in London
If the estimated price is achieved, it will put the painting among the top Beckmann canvases sold at auction, according to statistics from Artnet.com.
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MoMA’s Problematic Provenances
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
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To Thine Own Selves Be True
Role-playing is rampant today, with artists picturing themselves as impersonators, cross-dressers, evil twins, and exhibitionists—all to throw traditional ideas about identity up for grabs .
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