‘Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature’ Review: Facing the Sublime at the Met
The Metropolitan Museum of Art devotes an enthralling exhibition to the German Romantic painter, who rendered the natural ...
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See the Miniature Portrait of Mary Magdalene That Raphael Painted When He Was Only 20
Created around 1503, the painting—which just sold at auction for $3.1 million—depicts the saint after the crucifixion of ...
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The Limits of Art
For Edoardo Bellotti It was the first June of the new millennium and we were in the northern Italian foothills of the Alps.
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The Fate of Faith Ringgold’s Rikers Mural Is More Complicated Than You Think
The new documentary "Paint Me a Road Out of Here" details the history of a painting by Faith Ringgold, created for the Rikers ...
‘Creator of Nightmares’ Review: Henry Fuseli, Dark Dreamer
A polymathic writer and visual artist, Fuseli made his mark with paintings that translated his feverish obsessions into ...
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Hauser & Wirth in Paris Examines Francis Picabia’s Late Period
Francis Picabia’s creative life was implicated in plural art movements, from Impressionism to Cubism to Dada to Orphism. The ...
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See a Controversial Anti-Fascist Mural From the 1930s Returned to Its Former Glory
Titled "The Struggle Against Terrorism," the 1,000-square-foot artwork suffered from neglect for 90 years. Now, conservators ...
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Mysterious Portrait Found Hidden Under Famed Titian Painting
Ecce Homo, a painting by Italian Renaissance master Titian, has been found to be hiding a mysterious portrait of an unknown ...
Reading Whistler’s Nocturne in Blue and Gold – Old Battersea Bridge as a piece of music
Whistler’s paintings were first compared to music in 1863 when the French critic Paul Manz described his haunting portrait, ...