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Ruth Asawa, <em>Albert's Rose Bouquet </em>(PF.564), 1990; private collection. This bouquet, given to the artist around Mother's Day in May 1990 by her husband, Albert Lanier, was among the many Asawa sketched over the years.

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  • Fine Art

Mother's Day flowers don't last, but these bouquet sketches live on

The late artist Ruth Asawa regularly drew the bouquets people gave her. Years later, some of the sketches made it back to those who gave flowers.

May 10, 2025
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  • Chloe Veltman
Artist Arewà Basit poses in front of <em>Trans Forming Liberty </em>(2024), a 10-foot oil painting by Amy Sherald.<br>

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  • Fine Art

Painter Amy Sherald asks: What is American?

Amy Sherald, who painted former First Lady Michelle Obama's portrait in 2018, has a major survey of her work opening this week at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

April 09, 2025
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  • Olivia Hampton
John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres,<em> Jamese Jefferson and Gloria Bollock</em>, 1992, acrylic on Hydrocal plaster life cast

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  • Fine Art

This art exhibition is 'divisive' or 'eye-opening' — it depends who you ask

A new White House executive order says the exhibition is an example of how the Smithsonian portrays "American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive."

April 02, 2025
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  • Elizabeth Blair
A sculpture of Aphrodite is displayed during an exhibition of ancient Greek art in 2007 in Beijing, China. The collection is from the 5th and 4th centuries B.C. Many ancient statues were scented, a researcher says.

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  • History

Ancient Greek and Roman statues often smelled like roses, a new study says

Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the same, either.

March 25, 2025
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  • James Doubek
The Wichita Art Museum in Wichita, Kan., says more young people have been attending exhibitions since it decided to stop charging admissions for its permanent collection in 2023.

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  • Arts & Life

Report: (Smaller) Museums should make admission free

A new study out this week from the museum think tank Remuseum suggests free admission attracts more visitors without increasing costs.

March 20, 2025
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  • Chloe Veltman
"50 Years of Hope and HA-HAs" is the first Vietnamese American art exhibit to open in the D.C., Maryland and Virginia region, according to the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

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  • Fine Art

A new art exhibit examines 50 years since the Vietnam War and looks forward with hope

April 2025 marks 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War. In Washington, D.C., a new art exhibit offers counter-narratives of what it means to be Vietnamese American.

February 27, 2025
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  • Suzanne Nuyen
A diptych from Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst's "xhairymutantx". The work, originally commissioned as part of a larger piece for the 2024 Whitney Biennial, is among those offered for sale at Christie's landmark AI art auction.

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  • Art & Design

Christie's AI art auction inspires protests – and more art

The upcoming Augmented Intelligence sale represents the first time a major auction house is focusing entirely on works created using machine learning. Artists have mixed feelings about it.

February 17, 2025
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  • Chloe Veltman
An infrared image of Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto, revealing another portrait underneath.

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  • World

A hidden Picasso painting from the early Blue Period is revealed by new technology

Experts analyzing the painting have several theories about why this unidentified woman has remained submerged for more than a century.

February 12, 2025
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  • Manuela López Restrepo
Louvre visitors in front of <em>The Wedding Feast at Cana</em> by Paolo Veronese in June 2024. The painting is among several masterworks that may soon cease to play "second fiddle'" to the Mona Lisa.

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  • Fine Art

Mona Lisa's roommates may be glad she's moving out

Now that Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece is moving to another room at The Louvre, other Renaissance masterpieces hanging in the same space by Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese may finally get their due.

January 29, 2025
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  • Chloe Veltman
The entry to the Smithsonian Institution's Smithsonian Castle in Washington, D.C.

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  • Arts & Life

The Smithsonian will close its diversity office and freeze federal hiring

The Smithsonian isn't a federal agency, but it gets much of its funding from federal appropriations.

January 29, 2025
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  • Neda Ulaby
French President Emmanuel Macron gives a speech in front of the <em>Mona Lisa</em> by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre in Paris on Tuesday.

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  • World

The Louvre will be renovated and the 'Mona Lisa' will have her own room

French President Emmanuel Macron laid out an ambitious plan for a "reimagined, restored and expanded" Louvre. An art critic says Macron is aiming for another success after restoration of Notre Dame.

January 28, 2025
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  • Eleanor Beardsley and
  • Nick Spicer
Mickalene Thomas' 2015 work "Afro Goddess Looking Forward." <em>Rhinestones, acrylic, and oil on wood panel</em>

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  • Fine Art

Mickalene Thomas makes art that 'gives Black women their flowers'

Thomas' work puts Black women front and center. "We've been supportive characters for far too long," she says. "I would describe my art as radically shifting notions of beauty by reclaiming space."

December 03, 2024
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  • Tonya Mosley

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  • Author Interviews

In a 'Still Life' painting nothing moves — but, wait! Was that a dragon?

An authoritative artist has many rules for his still life painting. Too bad! Because the mouse, the dragon, the knight, and the princess are here to break them in this raucous new picture book.

November 23, 2024
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  • Samantha Balaban
University of Chicago student Rudra Patel happily shows off the work of famed artist Ando Hiroshige that he'll get to display in his dorm room for one year.  Hiroshige was a master of Japanese woodblock printing whose work focused on landscapes and everyday life in Edo-period Japan.

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  • National

Want a Picasso? UChicago students borrow original art for their dorms

College students often use posters to help spruce up their dorm. At the University of Chicago, they get a chance to borrow works by prominent artists for a year.

October 28, 2024
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  • Alison Cuddy
Artist Titus Kaphar has a new film out called<em> Exhibiting Forgiveness. </em>He's shown above with his artwork <em>From Whence I Came, </em>ahead of his 2022 exhibition at the Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill gallery in London.

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  • Movie Interviews

For painter Titus Kaphar, forgiveness is 'a weight lifted off of your shoulders'

Kaphar draws on his own painful relationship with his father in his film, Exhibiting Forgiveness. He says the project gave him "a sympathy for my father that I never had as a young man."

October 24, 2024
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  • Tonya Mosley
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