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<em>The Katastwóf Karavan</em> is built from a steel frame mounted to lumber running gear with red oak and muslin wall panels, a propane fired boiler, water tank, gas generator and a brass and steel 38-note steam calliope.

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  • Art & Design

A slavery-era instrument is on the National Mall, singing 'songs of liberation'

An old-fashioned steam calliope designed by luminaries in the worlds of art and jazz is on display at the National Sculpture Garden.

May 19, 2022
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  • Neda Ulaby
Albany Museum of Art Katie Dillard unpacks a repaired painting by glass artist Dale Chihuly while mounting the show titled "Homecoming" recently.

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  • Fine Art

A new exhibit at Albany's Art Museum celebrates surviving a natural disaster

A new exhibit now open at the Albany Museum of Art this week celebrates the treasures in the museum collection and how they survived a 2017 tornado.

May 13, 2022
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  • Grant Blankenship
Hope Gangloff, <em>Queen Jane Approximately</em>, 2011. Acrylic on canvas, 66 x 108 inches. Collection of Alturas Foundation, San Antonio, Texas © Hope Gangloff.

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  • Fine Art

In 'Women Painting Women,' the female gaze is front and center

A new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art of Forth Worth — "Women Painting Women" — shows viewers what happens when women are both the subject and the artist. The result: something raw and real.

May 12, 2022
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  • Susan Stamberg
Artist Jill Magid had 120,000 pennies inscribes with, "The body was already so fragile."

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  • Arts & Life

120k of these pennies are in circulation; do you have one in your pocket?

Artist Jill Magid inscribed pennies with "The body was already so fragile" — and now brings a film of the process to Brooklyn, giving people a chance to reflect on the pandemic.

May 05, 2022
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  • Jennifer Vanasco
Artist Jill Magid had 120,000 pennies inscribes with, "The body was already so fragile."

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  • Arts & Life

120k of these pennies are in circulation; do you have one in your pocket?

Artist Jill Magid inscribed pennies with "The body was already so fragile" — and now brings a film of the process to Brooklyn, giving people a chance to reflect on the pandemic.

May 05, 2022
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  • Jennifer Vanasco
A 1983 photo of then 23-year-old visual artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.

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  • Arts & Life

An intimate look at Jean-Michel Basquiat's art, courtesy of his family

"Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure" opened recently in New York City. It features 200 never-before-seen and rare paintings, drawings and artifacts from Basquiat, who died in 1988 at age 27.

May 04, 2022
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
Artist Guadalupe Maravilla photographed in one of the galleries of his show "Tierra Blanca Joven" on view at the Brooklyn Museum.

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  • Fine Art

For the artist Guadalupe Maravilla, sound is healing

Salvadoran American artist Guadalupe Maravilla makes structures and "sound baths" as a way to heal from his own trauma — and help others.

May 02, 2022
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  • Jasmine Garsd
Pierre-Georges Jeanniot (French, 1848–1934), <em>The Survivors of a Massacre Used as Gravediggers</em>, 1915. Lithograph on wove paper, image: 8 9/16 x 11 7/16 in. sheet: 13 1/4 x 19 1/8 in.

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  • Fine Art

Art bearing witness to the agonies of war

An exhibition at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass. shows four centuries of war images, giving powerful witness to how art forms have reflected the brutalities of war.

April 15, 2022
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  • Susan Stamberg
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  • Fine Art

Art bearing witness to the agonies of war

An exhibition at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass. shows four centuries of war images, giving powerful witness to how art forms have reflected the brutalities of war.

April 15, 2022
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  • Susan Stamberg
Workshop participants learn to create <em>pysanky</em>, or Ukrainian-style decorated eggs, at a workshop in Troy, N.Y. on Mar. 21.

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  • Arts & Life

These intricately decorated eggs are raising money and good wishes for Ukraine

The Ukrainian springtime tradition of intricately decorating eggs has taken on new urgency during the war with Russia. Now, people are using this art to fundraise and bring awareness for Ukraine.

April 12, 2022
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
Graciela Iturbide's work is on display at the Cartier Foundation in Paris through May.

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A Paris exhibit looks back on the photographs of Graciela Iturbide

Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide has won international renown for her portraits of indigenous and marginalized peoples across the globe.

April 09, 2022
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  • Eleanor Beardsley
Beauford Delaney's last known self-portrait. The then-70-year-old Delaney portrays himself as wide-eyed, lithe and youthful, and clad in African attire not unlike that of a Maasai warrior. It is the only known self-portrait canvas in which Delaney presents himself full-figure.

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  • Race

Knoxville and Paris make plans for Beauford Delaney's art to get its due

Knoxville, Tenn. is building a museum for the works of Beauford and Joseph Delaney.

April 05, 2022
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  • Ambriehl Crutchfield
Visitor experiencing Yayoi Kusama's<em> Infinity Mirrored Room—My Heart Is Dancing into the Universe</em> (2018), part of the 2022 exhibition<em> One with Eternity: Yayoi Kusama in the Hirshhorn Collection </em>at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

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  • Fine Art

Dots all, folks—at the Hirshhorn, artist Yayoi Kusama immerses viewers in infinity

Yayoi Kusama, the 93-year-old Japanese artist, is famous for her immersive infinity rooms. Starting April 1, the Hirshhorn in D.C. will be displaying two of these dazzling works.

April 01, 2022
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  • Susan Stamberg
Rapper Andrew Hean, whose family owned a donut shop in California, is pictured in a silkscreen print on a donut box by artist Phung Huynh.

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  • Art & Design

Pink donut boxes are canvas for artist portraying kids of Cambodian-American refugees

Artist Phung Huynh incorporates pink donut boxes into her portraits of young Cambodian-Americans who grew up in their family donut stores in Southern California.

March 22, 2022
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  • Neda Ulaby
Installation view of Joseph Wright of Derby's <em>An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump</em>, in "Science and the Sublime: A Masterpiece by Joseph Wright of Derby."

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  • Fine Art

A mad scientist and his bird in a bubble: The story behind a peculiar painting

The Los Angeles-area Huntington Museum and London's National Gallery are swapping two paintings: Thomas Gainsborough's Blue Boy for Joseph Wright of Derby's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump.

March 15, 2022
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  • Susan Stamberg
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