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A New York Artist Is Seeing the Light
American artist Spencer Finch is not a household name. But a few weeks ago he was thrown into the spotlight in a big way, because he created the only commissioned piece for the 9-11 Memorial...
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Jeff Koons, the Inflation Artist
Jeff Koons sells his work for more than any other American living artist. And now he's the first to fill nearly the entire Whitney Museum by himself.Koons' major retrospective is his first in New York...
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Art That Reaches Beyond Palestine
In a dark room inside the Whitebox Art Center, a non-profit galley in the Lower East Side, hundreds of names are projected on a wall and are read by a computer-generated voice. They are the...
View ArticleCan Museums Cash In On Art?
Winslow Homer’s “Milking Time” (1875) is a masterpiece of American genre painting. It’s a quietly intense farm scene in which a mother and son turn away and gaze over a wooden fence that seems to say...
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In an Era of Selfies, Is Straight Photography Art?
Businessmen walking on the streets of Midtown. Couples swimming at Coney Island. Women with teased hair and cat-eye sunglasses.Thousands of regular Americans were captured by the lens of late...
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Masters and High Heels: It's the Fall Art Season
This is going to be a fall art season of the dead white men. Yet again. Major exhibits will feature work by Paul Cezanne, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse.Cezanne's portraits of his wife, Hortense, will...
View ArticleBrooklyn Museum Director Steps Down
Brooklyn Museum director Alan Lehman, who announced his retirement Wednesday, offended a lot of people during his 17-year tenure.Most famously, there was the "Sensation" art exhibit in 1999 that...
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Art You Must See This Fall
WNYC art critic Deborah Solomon shares the top 10 art museums and "art neighborhoods" she's looking forward to visiting this season.Follow along as we talk about upcoming exhibitions and events.1. Paul...
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Do You Like the Met's New Fountains? How About Their Politics?
After a two-year redesign and reconstruction, the Metropolitan Museum has two state-of-the-art fountains — but they come with controversy.They are part of a new plaza that stretches along Fifth Avenue...
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Hey, Look, It's a Sculpture
The American painter Barnett Newman once said that sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.But this weekend, sculpture takes center stage in New York City.The non-profit...
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Behind Every Great Piece of Art, There is Often a 20-Year-Old
Sometimes it feels like you have to be in your 20s to make great art.Spanish artist Pablo Picasso was under 30 when he created Cubism. American artist Jasper Johns painted his American flag when he was...
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25 Years in 25 Days (2006): Skyrocketing Art Sales
This fall, the Brian Lehrer Show is marking 25 years of Brian at WNYC with a year-by-year look at stories that mattered from 1989 to 2014. Find the full schedule and lots more here.Three of the...
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Rudy Giuliani’s Most Reviled Artist Is Back
What a difference 15 years makes. When British artist Chris Ofili showed his painting of a black Virgin Mary that incorporates elephant dung at the Brooklyn Museum in 1999, then-Mayor Rudolph Giuliani...
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A Picasso Face-Off at Two Galleries
A Pablo Picasso face-off is taking place between two New York City art galleries. Pace and Gagosian have large exhibitions on the work of the Spanish master at the same time.The Gagosian show is...
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Madame Cezanne: Muse or Object?
Hortense Fiquet is a mystery in the art world.She sat for 29 paintings by her husband Paul Cezanne, more than any other model, and smiles in none of them. She was ignored by the French artist's family,...
View ArticleProtest Photos Are the Best Art of 2014
In this country, we have a long history of "citizen journalism" — non-professionals who spread news. This year, after Ferguson and Eric Garner and nationwide protests against policy brutality, citizen...
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The Inflammatory Art of Cartoons
The world is mourning the death of a dozen people at the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. They were the victims of a terrorist attack, apparently aimed at several cartoonists.Charlie Hebdo is...
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A 200-Year Selfie Obsession
Before "selfie" was a word and a global obsession, there was the self-portrait. Artists have been painting themselves for centuries, inspired in part by pioneer Dutch artist Rembrandt, who became...
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Screen Versus Self in the Museum
Media guru Marshall McLuhan once said the medium is the message. But now the medium is also the source of misery. At least that's how it seems, in the work of early-career artists featured in the New...
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Lincoln, the Jews and Sore Feet
This year marks 150 years since the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. He died on April 15, 1865, in a boarding house across the street from Ford’s Theater, where he had been shot the night...
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