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MADRID (AP) -- Spain on Tuesday mourned the death of Catalan painter and sculptor Antoni Tapies, one of the world's top contemporary art figures. He was 88....
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Mr. Tàpies grounded his work in the brute reality of the Spanish street and in the turbulent political dramas of his youth in Catalonia.
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After more than a year of sounding Richmond's diverse communities, a group of artists is presenting an art show that attempts to express the city's heart and soul.
The show's interactive exhibits, called Touchable Stories, start today and run through May 13. The artwork captures the city's...(more)
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The MIT student who walked into Logan International Airport wearing a computer circuit board and wiring on her sweat shirt claimed it was harmless artwork. But to troopers who arrested her at gunpoint, it was a fake bomb.
Nineteen-year-old Star Simpson was charged Friday with possessing a...(more)
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Each new work of art in the city's public art collection exists to inspire appreciation, but over the last year, many pieces have been drawing the wrong type of attention. Increasingly, sculptures, monuments and a...
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At the Jingletown annual Holiday Art Walk in Oakland earlier this month, most artists were ready to make a deal
A recently laid off jeweler, for example, marked her $50 cut-leather necklaces down 10 percent for faster sales. Jon Zax, a digital artist, says he and other...(more)
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Artist Robert Rauschenberg, whose use of odd and everyday articles earned him regard as a pioneer in pop art but whose talents spanned the worlds of painting, sculpture and dance, has died, a his gallery representative said Tuesday. He was 82.
Rauschenberg died Monday, said Jennifer Joy,...(more)
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Thomas W. Gaehtgens, an internationally respected art historian, has been appointed director of the Getty Research Institute, it was announced Tuesday....
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Artists, too, are singing the blues in these economic hard times, telling Congress that layoffs and art organization closures are hurting communities across the country....
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An entire wing of the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum that was built to hold a peerless collection of art from Papua New Guinea could be emptied by an inheritance battle between heirs of the Annenberg publishing fortune.
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For a former nude model whose beauty was immortalized by some of the best-known artists in the United States, Ola Carlson is much less revealing about herself. Video: Nude model memories
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A Van Gogh masterpiece believed to be the artist's final piece of work is to be put on the public market for the first time, where it is expected to become one of the most highly-valued paintings ever auctioned.
The Fields (Wheat Fields) was completed on 10...(more)
