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The Messy Politics of Documenta’s Arrival in Athens

April 12, 2017

Hyperallergic - With its head cocked 90 degrees to the side and its eyes opened wide, the owl of Documenta 14’s logo is poised for observation. The owl, a symbol of Athena, the goddess of wisdom and learning, a...

Anselm Kiefer on the Existential Crisis Facing Humanity

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April 5, 2017

Art and Society, Artists

Artsy - Anselm Kiefer is emphatically one of the world’s most successful and well-known living artists. His work has been described as “verging on the divine,” no less. But at 72, what does it all mean to Kiefe...

How the Rainbow Flag Became a Universal Symbol of Gay Rights

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April 5, 2017

Art and Society

Artsy - It was 1978, and San Francisco’s gay community was on the hunt for a symbol that represented their fight for equal rights. So Gilbert Baker, a 27-year-old artist and drag queen, began brainstorming. He ...

James Rosenquist, pop art contemporary of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, dies aged 83

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April 5, 2017

Art and Culture, Artists

The Independent UK - James Rosenquist, a key figure in the pop art movement along with Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, has died aged 83. His wife Mimi Thompson, told The New York Times that he died at his hom...

Inside Zaha Hadid Architects’ under-construction One Thousand Museum in Miami

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April 5, 2017

Art and Culture, Museums

The Architects Newspaper - When 62 floors accommodate 83 living units, you can presume listings will not include the words “cozy” and “poky.” This, along with the fact that Zaha Hadid Architects’ (ZHA) resident...

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DEATH, DESTRUCTION AND DEITY: PAINTING GUERNICA

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April 5, 2017

Art and Society

The Art Newspaper - In the first week of January 1937, six months into the Spanish Civil War, Josep Renau, Republican Spain’s dynamic young director of Bellas Artes, approached Picasso to commission a large wor...

Catherine Perehudoff

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April 4, 2017

Registry

Wild Waves of North Atlantic, 2015, acrylic on canvas, 48” x 48” Clouds in August, 2016, watercolor on paper, 14” x 19.5” Coastal Flowers, 2016, acrylic on canvas 30” x 36” Warm Fall Colors, 2016 w...

Cynthia Araf

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April 1, 2017

Registry

Intervals A, 2015, archival digital print on Hahnemühle Baryta paper Intervals B, 2016, archival digital print on Hahnemühle photo rag paper Intervals C, 2013, archival digital print on Hahnemühle phot...

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Art Basel Report Suggests Growing Inequality Is Endangering the Art Market

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March 22, 2017

Art and Society, Art Market

Artsy - Widening wealth inequality has been and likely will be blamed for a number of pernicious phenomena, such as rising populism, the election of a few unsavory characters, and decreased social mobility. Ine...

Van Gogh paintings snatched by mafia back in Amsterdam after 14 years

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March 22, 2017

Art and Society, Art and the Law

DW - Two works by Dutch post-Impressionist Vincent Van Gogh have been returned to the Netherlands after they were grabbed in a mafia heist 14 years ago. The two paintings were unveiled on Tuesday at the Van Gog...

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