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Will Switzerland's $5 billion bailout of bank UBS spoil the party at Art Basel Miami Beach this winter? As Basel's top sponsor, UBS bankrolls a chunk of the December art fair. Its financial woes could provide more brush strokes on a humbling makeover for the most...(more)
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First, a cautionary note about tonight's screening of the film "Seven Easy Pieces" at the Hirshhorn: The easily shocked or squeamish will probably want to quickly leave/run screaming from the theater. And that's a perfectly understandable response, given the nudity, self-mutilation, self-flagellation and sheer intensity...(more)
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An engraving by Spanish master Francisco de Goya is discovered a month after it was stolen, Colombian police say.
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NEW YORK Look at the Museum of Modern Art's latest van Gogh show and you may spend most of it (including the two-hour wait one recent Sunday) feeling like it's a cynical exercise in ticket sales: Take "Starry Night," the MoMA painting that no doubt...(more)
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New art seldom startles. It would like to, but it doesn't. Once you've seen a bit of it, you'll have a pretty good idea what you will see next -- digital photographs, big assemblages on the floor, plotless videos, the usual. More startling by far...(more)
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In belt-tightening times, the cost of enjoying the arts in New York might seem particularly daunting. Here’s how to get the most for your cultural dollar.
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It's a drab and drizzly Friday evening, but there's a lively soiree at the Studio Gallery, just north of Dupont Circle, as local artists swish around mouthfuls of stout, hefeweizen and lager while home-brewers admire works in watercolor, oil and acrylic. You might expect to...(more)
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Worldwide economic turmoil has not halted the multibillion-dollar plans of a group of developers to build the world’s tallest tower in Dubai.
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The work of first world war artist Len Smith, who made daring forays into no man's land to sketch German positions, is celebrated in a new book
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The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum plans to begin work in January on the renovation and expansion of its ornate Fifth Avenue mansion.
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Many landscape painters (like most cosmetic surgeons and makers of silk flowers) do their best to make their artifice look natural. In this jungly photo-painting called "Koreshan 39" (2008), Washington's Frank Hallam Day flips that ancient striving. While his picture is a photograph (shot after...(more)
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If you were selecting the greatest work of art in Washington, you wouldn't pick this lumpy, chipped, revered old tea bowl from Kyoto at the Freer Gallery of Art. It isn't the greatest. Yet it's the humblest. Missing it is easy. Raphael's 16th-century madonnas seize...(more)
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