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News Articles: Fine Art

Cecilia Gimenez, left, who restored a version of 'Ecce Homo' mural by 19th century painter Elías Garcia Martínez, died Monday.

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  • Obituaries

Cecilia Giménez, the artist who 'restored' the face of Jesus, has died at 94

Giménez international attention after she attempted to restore an old fresco. While it was immediately ridiculed at the time, the piece eventually turned into a tourist attraction.

December 30, 2025
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By:
  • Andrew Limbong
The missing painting, Gabriele Münter, <em>Music </em>(<em>Musik</em>), 1916, its whereabouts unknown to the public since 1977.  Oil on canvas. Private collection. © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.

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  • Fine Art

This painting is missing. Do you have it?

An important work from a rediscovered artist has been absent from public view since the 1970s. A New York curator is hunting for it.

December 28, 2025
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By:
  • Jennifer Vanasco
JonOne with one of the paintings featured in his sol show at Miami's Museum of Graffiti.

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  • Arts & Life

From subways to galleries: Miami's Museum of Graffiti traces the appeal of street art

A new show at Miami's Museum of Graffiti traces the origins and development of street art. What began in the 1970s with teenagers tagging New York subway cars has grown into a worldwide art movement.

December 01, 2025
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By:
  • Greg Allen
Jeff de Boer poses with one of his mouse armor pieces at a workshop at Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle, Wash., on Oct. 9.

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  • Art & Design

This artist designs intricate suits of armor. The intended wearer? A humble mouse

Jeff de Boer has made an entire career out of crafting tiny plate armor. He's compelled by the idea of the underdog finding an edge; something so small being so well-protected.

November 27, 2025
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  • Deena Prichep
Frida Kahlo's <em>El Sueno (La cama)</em> is estimated to sell for between $40 and $60 million.

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  • Art & Design

This Frida Kahlo painting could break records at auction on Thursday

The artist's 1940 painting, El sueño (La cama), is expected to sell for $40 to $60 million on Thursday night.

November 19, 2025
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By:
  • Neda Ulaby
Art expert Agnes Sevestre-Barbe points to a rediscovered Picasso painting "Bust of a Woman in a Flowery Hat," on Wednesday in Paris. The portrait of longtime muse and partner Dora Maar sold Friday at auction for 32 million euros (about $37 million).

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  • Fine Art

Picasso portrait of muse Dora Maar, long hidden from view, sells for $37 million

"Bust of a Woman with a Flowered Hat," a vividly hued Picasso portrait of longtime muse and partner Dora Maar, had remained hidden from public view for more than eight decades.

October 25, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
The 2025 Atlanta Art Fair lured artists from four continents to Atlanta's Pullman Yards exhibition space from Sept. 25 to 28, 2025..

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  • Arts & Life

3 highlights from the Atlanta Art Fair: Legends, layering and large formats

Atlanta's first commercial art fair returned to Pullman Yards this month with 75 galleries representing hundreds of artists from around the globe.

October 01, 2025
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  • Kristi York Wooten
Sally Mann in her home studio in Virginia on August 16, 2025.

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  • Photography

Photographer Sally Mann warns of 'new era of culture wars' after art seizure

As she reflects on her career in a second memoir, Sally Mann warns of a "new era of culture wars" after police pulled several photographs she took of her children decades ago off the walls of a museum.

September 25, 2025
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  • Olivia Hampton
A painting by Rigoberto Gonzalez, titled <em>Refugees Crossing the Border Wall into South Texas</em>, was singled out by the White House in a list of artworks and exhibitions it found objectionable.

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  • Arts & Life

Smithsonian artists and scholars respond to White House list of objectionable art

A page published by the White House entitled "President Trump Is Right About the Smithsonian" lists exhibits, educational sites and more that the administration seems to take issue with.

August 24, 2025
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  • Mandalit del Barco
Patrons view a portrait of President Trump in the America's Presidents exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery on May 14, 2021 in Washington, DC.

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  • Arts & Life

Trump expands 'woke' criticism from Smithsonian to other museums

"The Museums throughout Washington, but all over the Country are, essentially, the last remaining segment of "WOKE," he wrote.

August 20, 2025
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  • Neda Ulaby
GPB  NPR

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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 new sympathy for his dad. Originally broadcast Oct. 24, 2024.

June 19, 2025
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  • Tonya Mosley
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
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