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PARIS (AP) -- When Velazquez painted a 17th century Spanish princess, he gave her wispy hair, pale skin and a cautious gaze. Three centuries later, Picasso turned the girl's face into a Cubist maze of green and purple, yet he captured her essence - that same...(more)
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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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A gift of art from New Guinea that was promised to the de Young Museum in San Francisco is in dispute.
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ONGOING/OPEN "Red Lines, Death Vows, Foreclosures, Risk Structures: Architectures of Finance From the Great Depression to the Subprime Meltdown." Through Dec. 21. Compton Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. You've lived the bubble and watched your assets tank, now see the show: No institution...(more)
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Alexander Nagel , 43, is best known for an award-winning book on Michelangelo, and for research into Renaissance concepts of history that he conducted during a two-year stint as Andrew Mellon professor at the National Gallery's Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. This...(more)
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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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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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The 1908 painting "Diana of the Tides" is an exuberantly over-the-top exercise in turn-of-the-century decorative art: Diana rides a clamshell chariot, pulled by four obstreperous horses that charge out of the froth and spray of the ocean. At least that's what grainy photographs of the...(more)
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Some artists are happy enough just having their work shown at the Whitney Museum, but 37-year-old Corin Hewitt is actually moving in, for three months.
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Mr. Hantaï was a highly regarded, famously reclusive French painter whose work explored ideas of absence and silence.
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