Saving Frida Kahlo From Her Own Celebrity
Scholars and artists are trying to reclaim Kahlo's art from the cult of personality that has surrounded her since her death. A new exhibition at the MCA in Chicago aims to put the emphasis back on…
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Duchamp's dictionary, Picasso's (other) muse, Lucy Lippard's landscapes, and Hans Ulrich Obrist's map quests are among the subjects of recent volumes that expand the story of art
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Magritte’s Grand Illusions
The curator of "Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926–1938," opening September 28 at MoMA, explores how three photographs of the Belgian Surrealist provide insights into his wry humor and…
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Mystery of a Lost Magritte, Solved
The mystery of a lost Rene Magritte canvas missing for nearly 80 years has been solved by conservators and curators at New York's Museum of Modern Art amid preparation for an upcoming exhibition…
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The Last of the Surrealists: Leonora Carrington
Leonora Carrington, one of the last surviving Surrealists, and one of the few women in that circle, died at 94 in Mexico City, where she'd lived for the past seven decades. The cause was complications…
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A Stone for Unica Zürn
An artist of manifold gifts and a deeply troubled soul, Unica Zürn was associated with the Parisian Surrealists, by whom she was largely eclipsed.
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The Great Late Salvador DalÃ
Dalí’s production after his Surrealist phase, once dismissed by scholars as banal kitsch, is now being celebrated for being so ahead of its time it looks as though it could have been made…
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How Our Critics Spoke
The good, the bad, the splendid, the beautiful, and "a negation of everything under the sun and the sun itself".
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