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News Articles: Fine Art

A 1951 oil painting by Gertrude Abercrombie entitled <em>Search for Rest</em>. Collection of Sandra and Bram Dijkstra.

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  • Fine Art

A midcentury 'jazz witch' artist finds a fandom in the future

Gertrude Abercrombie was a bohemian midcentury painter whose surrealist paintings, newly coveted by collectors, are now touring museums as part of the show "Supernatural America."

October 29, 2021
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  • Neda Ulaby
Banksy's "Love is in the Bin" (2018) is installed at Sotheby's on September 03, 2021 in London, England.

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  • Fine Art

A half-shredded Banksy piece is auctioned for $25.4 million, a record for the artist

"Love is in the Bin" made history when it was created during a 2018 auction. The crowd back then was shocked when a shredder activated as soon as the sale was complete, partly shredding the piece.

October 14, 2021
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  • Sharon Pruitt-Young
In this Friday, Oct. 1, 2021 file photo, visitors take photos of the 3D re-production of Michelangelo's David at the Italy's pavilion at the Dubai Expo 2020 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. One of the most talked about attractions at the world's fair underway in Dubai is a towering statue made of marble dust that's raising eyebrows just as its original form did more than 500 years ago.

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  • World

Art or censorship? Expo shows just top of famed David statue

When visitors make their way to Italy's pavilion at Dubai Expo 2020, most will only see the head of Michelangelo's famous statue

October 13, 2021
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  • The Associated Press
Imageboard, <em>My Neighbor Totoro </em>(1988), Hayao Miyazaki

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  • Movies

You can now enter Hayao Miyazaki's enchanting animated world at the Academy Museum

For the first time outside of his home country, the Japanese filmmaker's work is being featured in a major retrospective at the brand-new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles.

October 02, 2021
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  • Mandalit del Barco
Aminah Robinson in her home

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  • Fine Art

Buttons, beads and bravado: Celebrating the simple joy in Aminah Robinson's art

The first retrospective to display Robinson's work after her 2015 death, Raggin' On at the Columbus Museum of Art celebrates the grandeur of simple objects and everyday tasks.

October 01, 2021
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  • Susan Stamberg
Jens Haaning's artwork "Take the Money and Run" is seen in the Kunsten Musem of Modern Art. The empty canvas was meant to hold thousands of dollars in cash — but the artist chose to hang on to the money.

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  • Arts & Life

For $84,000, An Artist Returned Two Blank Canvasses Titled 'Take The Money And Run'

"The work is that I have taken their money," artist Jens Haaning said of his new piece. The commissioning museum in Denmark isn't satisfied with his explanation but is displaying the work nonetheless.

September 30, 2021
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  • Bill Chappell
Hobby Lobby bought the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet for  $1.67 million in 2014. Now it's being returned to Iraq.

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  • World

An Ancient Tablet, Stolen Then Acquired By Hobby Lobby, Will Be Returned To Iraq

Known as the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet, it was looted from Iraq and made its way through several hands before Hobby Lobby purchased it for the Museum of the Bible in 2014.

September 21, 2021
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  • James Doubek
Henry Ossawa Tanner,<em> The Thankful Poor,</em> 1894, oil on canvas, Art Bridges

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  • Fine Art

X-Rays And Infrared Reveal The Story Of The 1st Internationally Known Black Painter

Born in Pittsburgh in 1859, Henry Ossawa Tanner moved to Paris, where he found "nobody knows or cares what was the complexion of my forebears." Recent conservation work explores his artistic process.

September 08, 2021
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  • Susan Stamberg
Banksy's "Love is in the Bin" is installed at Sotheby's on September 03, 2021 in London, England.

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  • Fine Art

A Banksy Piece Was Shredded At Auction In 2018. Now, It May Sell For Millions More

After selling for $1.4 million three years ago, the half-destroyed piece is going back up for sale with big expectations.

September 07, 2021
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  • Sharon Pruitt-Young
Hung Liu, <em>Resident Alien,</em> 1988. Oil on canvas. Collection of the San Jose Museum of Art, gift of the Lipman Family Foundation.

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  • Fine Art

Remembering Hung Liu, A Portraitist Who Memorialized The Invisible

A career retrospective for the Oakland-based Chinese-American painter, who died on Aug. 7, opens at the National Portrait Gallery on August 27.

August 25, 2021
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  • Chloe Veltman
Artist Chuck Close at a 2019 exhibition of his work in Ravenna, Italy.

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  • Obituaries

Chuck Close, Creator Of Gigantic Portraits, Has Died At 81

Chuck Close, who was known for his giant photorealist portraits of friends and colleagues in the art world, has died at the age of 81. Late in life, Close faced accusations of sexual harassment.

August 19, 2021
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  • Petra Mayer
All Me, by Winfred Rembert

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  • Race

The Late Winfred Rembert Documented His Life With Art — And Now A Book

Winfred Rembert's autobiography features images of fishing in the culvert and dancing in the juke joint — but also of picking cotton, escaping a lynching and working on the chain gang.

August 14, 2021
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  • Debbie Elliott
A man covers himself from rain with an umbrella as he walks by the Baltimore Museum of Art on April 21, 2020. An upcoming exhibit at the museum will be curated by security guards.

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  • Art & Design

At This Baltimore Museum, Security Guards Will Be The Ones Curating The Exhibit

Opening in March 2022, the new "Guarding the Art" exhibit will feature hidden gems selected by the museum's own security guards.

July 29, 2021
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  • Jonathan Franklin
Sandro Botticelli, <em>Ideal Portrait of a Lady ("Simonetta Vespucci")</em>, 1475-80, tempera on poplar panel

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  • Fine Art

A Story Of War, Theft And A Beautiful Woman, Back In The U.S. After 70+ Years

After World War II, 202 paintings stolen by the Nazis toured the U.S. Now, the Cincinnati Art Museum has four of them back on view in the exhibition "Paintings, Politics and the Monuments Men."

July 05, 2021
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  • Susan Stamberg
The Lincoln Center campus, presently adorned in a green carpet of synthetic grass, hosts a Juneteenth experience June 19.

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  • Music

In New York City, A Juneteenth Event Examines The Meaning Of Freedom

Lincoln Center observes Juneteenth, now a federal holiday, with "I Dream a Dream That Dreams Back at Me," an ambulatory experience conceived by Carl Hancock Rux.

June 19, 2021
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  • Jeff Lunden
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