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Mr. Cieciorka was a graphic artist, art director and watercolorist whose woodcut rendering of a clenched-fist salute was the model for the New Left’s most ubiquitous emblem.
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The Zimbabwean playwright and political satirist Cont Mhlanga has won the Freedom to Create Prize, awarded by the artistic philanthropy group ArtVenture, the organization announced. Mr. Mhlanga has been an outspoken critic of Zimbabwe’s president, Robert Mugabe, and his work has been banned by that regime....(more)
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Saw the flash . . . women, children . . . plate glass scaling through the air . . . one minute just a blue truck parking by the market, then . . . heard somebody screaming and it was me . . . saw...(more)
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The Italian art world is in an uproar over plans, led by a former McDonald’s executive, to turn Italy’s cultural sites into revenue generators.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- High-tech circus meets grand opera. That's a quick way to sum up the Metropolitan Opera's production of Hector Berlioz's masterpiece, "La Damnation de Faust," which opened Friday at Lincoln Center....
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Not many objects can hope to rival the Alba Madonna. By common consent it is one of the greatest paintings ever made. It's almost a calling card for all that art achieved in the High Renaissance in Italy. Everything -- everything-- that Western artists have...(more)
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The architect Rafael Viñoly has been selected as the master planner for New York University’s new Abu Dhabi campus in the United Arab Emirates, the university is to announce on Thursday. The campus, to open in 2012, will be in the Marina District of Saadiyat Island...(more)
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Aug. 23, A.D. 79, was the last day of Pompeii. Who has not imagined what befell that chic resort? The towering volcano, then the wrath-of-God explosion, the rivers of red lava, the hot snows of gray ash, the fluted columns crashing, the statues overturned, and...(more)
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The Cuban nephew of painter Georgia O'Keeffe has found a final resting place. Having waited a few months inside the freezer of a cremation service in South Florida, the body of Francis W. O'Keefe was recently cremated. His friend, Elena Prieto, has the ashes after a...(more)
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The ancient marble head of a youth was fitted into place Wednesday at a museum in Athens in a deal that Greek officials hope will serve as a model for returning other treasures.
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Donatello’s bronze depiction of David, the giant-slayer and future king from the Bible, has been treated to its first full restoration in a century and is once again on full display.
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An art collective turns the Los Angeles County Museum of Art into something of a summer camp.
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