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  • Business

Estée Lauder will buy Tom Ford in a $2.8 billion deal

It's the beauty firm's biggest acquisition yet. The purchase, subject to regulatory approvals, is slated to close in the first half of 2023.

November 15, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Steve Jobs' sandals sold for $218,750 at auction. Their present odor is unknown.

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  • Strange News

Steve Jobs' worn-out Birkenstocks sell for $218,000 at auction

Steve Jobs wore the Birkenstocks during the early days of Apple in the 1970s and '80s. It's a record price for a pair of sandals.

November 15, 2022
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  • James Doubek
Restorer Elizabeth Wicks works on the <em>Allegory of Inclination</em>, a 1616 work by Artemisia Gentileschi, in the Casa Buonarroti Museum, in Florence, Italy, on Wednesday.

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  • Fine Art

A censored nude painting from 1616 is set to be digitally unveiled

Long before Instagram, the male-dominated art world had censorship guidelines of its own. After a cover-up paint job, restorers will create a digital image of Artemisia Gentileschi's original work.

November 14, 2022
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  • Emma Bowman
Graffiti of a woman in a leotard doing a handstand is seen on the wall of a destroyed building in Borodyanka on Friday in Kyiv Region, Ukraine. Banksy later confirmed on their Instagram account that this piece was their work.

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  • World

A new Banksy mural adorns a destroyed building in Ukraine

Banksy's work, which the artist posted on Instagram Friday to 11.2 million followers, features a gymnast balancing on a pile of rubble with her hands.

November 12, 2022
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  • Ashley Ahn
Maya Lin, in 1988, examining inverted water table being fabricated for the Civil Rights Memorial she designed to be installed in Montgomery, Alabama.

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  • Arts & Life

Maya Lin doesn't like the spotlight — but the Smithsonian is shining a light on her

Heavily criticized 40 years ago for her Vietnam Veterans' Memorial design, the artist-architect-activist prefers to talk about her artistic process rather than her life

November 12, 2022
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  • Chloe Veltman
<em>Creature: Paintings, Drawings, and Reflections</em> is a new collection of images from artist and writer Shaun Tan's best-known works as well as more than 100 illustrations that have never been seen before. The book also includes essays by the artist.

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  • Books

Shaun Tan's curious creatures are just looking for companionship

Shaun Tan's illustrations run the emotional gamut, from oddly whimsical to deeply introspective. Tan is best known for his graphic novel The Arrival and his Oscar-winning short film The Lost Thing.

November 03, 2022
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  • Elizabeth Blair
Left, <em>Madame Moitessier,</em> 1856 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, oil on canvas, The National Gallery, London and right, <em>Woman with a Book,</em> 1932, Pablo Picasso, oil on canvas, The Norton Simon Foundation, Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society(ARS), New York

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  • Fine Art

Two painters, two women, two portraits — one fascinating story of artistic influence

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Pablo Picasso painted these portraits more than 75 years apart. But there's a clear connection between the two — and you can now see them on display together.

November 02, 2022
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  • Susan Stamberg
Phoebe Plummer, pictured at a demonstration in London's Piccadilly Circus in early October, spoke to <em>Morning Edition</em> about the tactics Just Stop Oil is using to draw attention to the urgency of climate change.

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  • Climate

The activist who threw soup on a van Gogh says it's the planet that's being destroyed

Phoebe Plummer, a climate activist with Just Stop Oil, speaks with NPR's Morning Edition about what the group wants, and why they're turning to controversial tactics to get it.

November 01, 2022
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  • Lilly Quiroz
Drag queen Pattie Gonia's dress was made by Zero Waste Daniel, a designer in Brooklyn, N.Y., who focuses on sustainable clothing and accessories.

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  • Arts & Life

Drag queen Pattie Gonia wanted a scary Halloween costume. She went as climate change

Drag queen Pattie Gonia said she wanted a very scary costume for Halloween this year. The scariest thing she came up with is climate change.

October 31, 2022
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  • Halisia Hubbard
Just Stop Oil activists glue their hands to the wall after throwing soup at Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" at the National Gallery in London earlier this month. Museums and famous artworks have long been the site of public protests.

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  • Europe

Protests at art museums are nothing new. Here are 3 famous examples from history

Climate groups like Just Stop Oil are making headlines for targeting famous works of art in their fossil fuel protests. It's a tactic that other individuals and groups have used over the last century.

October 26, 2022
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  • Rachel Treisman
The Bulldog watch, released by MB&F in March 2020, retails for $100,000 and sold out almost immediately.

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  • Business

What the wild journey of a $100,000 watch can teach us about global markets

The luxury watch market was a sleepy, shrinking industry until it got caught up in a tidal wave of market forces.

October 23, 2022
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  • Stacey Vanek Smith
Image from Toiletpaper (December 2012), courtesy of the artists and LACMA Balch Art Research Library. Copyright <em>Toiletpaper</em> magazine (Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari)

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  • Art & Design

Art and advertising collide in 'Objects of Desire'

An exhibition at Los Angeles County Museum of Art takes the vocabulary of ads (bright color, shiny surfaces, slick lighting) and manipulates, repositions, rearranges it into fine art.

October 19, 2022
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  • Susan Stamberg
People look at a large mosaic that dates back to the Roman era in the town of Rastan, Syria, on Wednesday.

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  • Arts & Life

A rare Roman-era mosaic is uncovered during the excavation of an old building in Syria

Syria uncovered a large intact mosaic that dates back to the Roman era, with officials describing it as the most important archaeological discovery since the country's conflict began 11 years ago.

October 15, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
In <em>Town Destroyer</em>, the debate over a mural leads to an outpouring of activism and opinions about how to look at art and how to confront racism in America.

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  • Arts & Life

When murals depict traumatic history, schools must decide what stays on the wall

Students of color at a high school, a law school and two universities have objected to the way historical murals have portrayed Native Americans and African Americans.

October 14, 2022
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  • Jon Kalish
A handout photo issued by the group Just Stop Oil shows two protesters who threw soup at Vincent Van Gogh's famous 1888 work <em>Sunflowers</em> at the National Gallery in London on Friday.

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  • Arts & Life

Climate protesters throw soup on Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers' painting in London

Members of a group that wants to halt new oil and gas projects threw soup over the masterpiece in London's National Gallery, but caused no discernible damage to the glass-covered painting.

October 14, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
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