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News Articles: Art & Design

A look at the London skyline visible from Tate Modern's terrace on Oct. 27, 2016.

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  • Europe

Tate Modern's terrace is a nuisance for wealthy neighbors, top U.K. court rules

For years, tourists have peered into multi-million-dollar apartments from the top of London's busiest art gallery. Britain's Supreme Court says that has to change.

February 02, 2023
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By:
  • Emily Olson
These screenshots show deployed service members that <em>Wove</em> worked with to design engagement rings while they are away from home. The rings in the photos are replicas that the service members received so they would have a sense of what the actual ones would be like.

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  • National

These combat vets want to help you design the perfect engagement ring

'Wove' is a design-your-own engagement ring company started by two former Army Rangers who got the idea while on combat deployment.

January 31, 2023
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By:
  • Quil Lawrence
A Pompeiian style fresco from Herculaneum titled "Young Hercules and the snake", dated to the I second A.C., is seen on display among other archaeological artifacts stolen from Italy and sold in the U.S. by international art traffickers, during a press conference in Rome, Monday, Jan. 23, 2023.

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  • Fine Art

An ancient fresco is among 60 treasures the U.S. is returning to Italy

U.S. authorities announced that the fresco depicting Hercules and dozens of other trafficked objects, which ended up in private collections in the United States, would go back to Italy.

January 24, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press
The Embrace, the new memorial sculpture in Boston made in tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, was unveiled on Friday.

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  • Arts & Life

New MLK statue in Boston is greeted with a mix of open arms, consternation and laughs

A new public art monument dedicated to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King was unveiled Friday. It immediately drew consternation and jeers as well as plaudits.

January 17, 2023
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By:
  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
The panel on the right, from KC Green's web comic strip "On Fire," became a popular online meme by 2014.

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  • Pop Culture

A decade on, the 'This is fine' creator wants to put the famous dog to rest

KC Green, the web comic artist, just marked the 10th anniversary of his 2013 comic strip that became a popular meme. He reflects on the meme's timelessness and the smiling dog's next chapter.

January 16, 2023
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  • Emma Bowman
GPB News NPR

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  • Arts & Life

Encore: The lasting legacy of Bob Ross

This week marks the 40th anniversary of The Joy of Painting. We revisit a story about a wildly popular Bob Ross solo exhibition in Virginia. The late PBS painter's popularity continues to soar.

January 13, 2023
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By:
  • Kat Lonsdorf
Gabriella Torres-Ferrer, <em>Untitled (Valora tu mentira americana)</em> (detail), 2018. Hurricane-ravaged wooden electric post with statehood propaganda. Private collection; courtesy of the artist and Embajada, San Juan.

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  • Arts & Life

When people are less important than beaches: Puerto Rican artists at the Whitney

The first major exhibit of Puerto Rican art on the mainland in 50 years wrestles with the question: Who is Puerto Rico for?

January 07, 2023
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By:
  • Jennifer Vanasco
A view of a section of Michael Heizer's <em>City</em>

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  • Arts & Life

Immerse yourself in this colossal desert 'City' — but leave the selfie stick at home

Michael Heizer began work on his massive installation in the Nevada desert more than 50 years ago. One of the largest artworks in the world, it cost $40 million (so far) and is now open to the public.

January 01, 2023
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  • Chloe Veltman
Jonah Kinigstein, 99, has been making art since he was a teenager. Some of his work satirizes modern artists such as Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock, visible in the painting behind him.

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  • Art & Design

This artist stayed figurative when art went abstract — he's finally recognized, at 99

Figurative painter Jonah Kinigstein was shut out of the art world when abstract expressionism came to prominence. Now he's finally getting some recognition.

January 01, 2023
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By:
  • Matthew Schuerman
Arata Isozaki arrives at the Élysée Palace in Paris on May 24, 2019. The Pritzker-winning Japanese architect has died at 91.

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  • Obituaries

Pritzker-winning architect Arata Isozaki dies at 91

The Japanese architect was known as a post-modern giant who blended culture and history of the East and the West in his designs. He won the Pritzker Prize, the highest honor in the field, in 2019.

December 30, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
<em>The Seven Sorrows of the Virgin</em>, from Prayer Book of Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg, about 1525-1530, Simon Bening. Tempera colors, gold paint, and gold leaf on parchment.

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  • Fine Art

'Visualizing the Virgin' shows Mary in the Middle Ages

An exhibition of illuminated manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum explores how Jesus' mother was portrayed before Renaissance artists painted her with golden curls, perfect skin and blue eyes.

December 30, 2022
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By:
  • Susan Stamberg
A drawing from a series featuring the character Colonel Heeza Liar, which ran from 1913-17 and 1922-24, that Kelley worked on.

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  • Art & Design

Her work as a pioneering animator was lost to history — until now

Bessie Mae Kelley is one of the earliest known women to hand-draw and direct animated films. This is the story of how her story was brought back to life nearly a century later.

December 24, 2022
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By:
  • Jonaki Mehta
Looted Benin Bronzes that were returned by Germany to Nigeria are examined during a ceremony in Abuja on Tuesday. Nigerian officials said that more than 5,000 ancient artifacts are estimated to have been stolen from Nigeria, the majority by British colonizers.

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  • World

Germany returns looted artifacts to Nigeria to rectify a 'dark colonial history'

This week's handover is Germany's first step in fulfilling its agreement with Nigeria to release all 1,130 Benin Bronzes from German museums.

December 21, 2022
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By:
  • Ashley Ahn
Mohsen Lihidheb stands in the backyard of his museum that is filled with things that he's collected after the waves brought them ashore in Zarzis, Tunisia.

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  • World

A Tunisian artist is hoping to keep the memories of migrants alive

Artist Mohsen Lihidheb collects objects that wash ashore in Zarzis, Tunisia. His collection is a tribute to the migrants who died trying to cross the Mediterranean.

December 21, 2022
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By:
  • Taylor Haney,
  • Leila Fadel,
  • and 2 more

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  • Arts & Life

Terrible at buying Christmas presents? Peep our guide for clever gift ideas

Not everyone has a knack for gift giving — and that's OK! Our experts share tips on what to get for 5 personality types, ranging from the practical to the sentimental to the hard to shop for.

December 14, 2022
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  • Meghan Keane
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