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News Articles: Series: Art Where You're At

Deborah Willis, <em>I Made Space For a Good Man,</em> 2009, Lithograph, gift from the collection of Winston and Carolyn Lowe in honor of Brandywine founder, Allan L. Edmunds, 2019.18.35

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  • Fine Art

In One Art Exhibition, Women Are 'Taking Space' They've Long Deserved

Works by female artists are center stage at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in an exhibition called Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale.

February 25, 2021
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  • Susan Stamberg
<em>The Stoop Stare Down (Nia & Afiya, Two Generations in Harlem)</em>, Jan. 26, 2020, 3:30 p.m., 42 degrees

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  • Photography

With Power, Poise And Confidence, These 'Women R Beautiful'

Ruben Natal-San Miguel likes to photograph people where they live. He calls his pictures "environmental portraits." Dozens are on view in the exhibition "Expanding the Pantheon: Women R Beautiful."

January 28, 2021
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  • Susan Stamberg
Emma Amos, <em>Identity</em>, 2006

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  • Art & Design

Emma Amos Died Just Before Her Retrospective But Her Art Is Alive As Ever

For six decades Amos explored race and gender in prints, paintings and fabrics. She died at 83 from complications of Alzheimer's but she knew that the Georgia Museum of Art show was in the works.

January 14, 2021
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By:
  • Susan Stamberg
Frits Thaulow, <em>Cottages in the Snow</em>, 1891

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  • Fine Art

These Artists Will Change Your Mind About Winter

If you'd prefer to experience the charms of winter from a safe (and warm) distance, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts has some beautiful snowy scenes for you to admire.

December 21, 2020
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By:
  • Susan Stamberg
José Clemente Orozco, <em>Rear Guard,</em> 1929, lithograph. Collection of the McNay Art Museum, Museum purchase with funds from the Cullen Foundation, the Friends of the McNay, Charles Butt, Margaret Pace Willson, and Jane and Arthur Stieren

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  • Fine Art

'The Three Greats' Of Mexican Modernism Fought Tyranny With Art

Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros — Los Tres Grandes — are the focus of an exhibition at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas.

December 03, 2020
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  • Susan Stamberg
<em>Lunch on the Grass,</em> 2020

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  • Arts & Life

An Artist Explores What 'Crosses The Ocean' In Porcelain And Painted Collage

Kyungmi Shin was born in South Korea and emigrated to the U.S. at 19. Colonization, cross-cultural impacts and immigration are all themes in her current exhibition, Father Crosses the Ocean.

November 12, 2020
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  • Susan Stamberg
Looks like your spice rack on steroids? Nope. Although the colors <em>are </em>a feast for the eyes.

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  • Art & Design

Tiny Little Jars Contain Big, Bold Colors In The Forbes Pigment Collection

Conservators, preservationists, artists, art historians and serious art fans can consult the Harvard Art Museums' collection to analyze and imitate the colors that painters used many centuries ago.

October 29, 2020
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  • Susan Stamberg
French woman conductor for the Paris Trolley Company, 1917

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  • Fine Art

Take Off Your Sweats And Step Into 'Silk And Steel' — French Fashions In WWI

An exhibition at the National WWI Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Mo., explores what wartime women wore — from overalls to evening gowns — and how military uniforms have affected fashion.

October 15, 2020
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  • Susan Stamberg
A page from <em>The Book of Wood: Rose of Sharon, Jesus Heals Woman Bleeding, Judas Kiss, Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane,</em> 1932, paint on carved wood, mounted on wood panels

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  • Fine Art

'Every Piece I Carve Is A Message': Elijah Pierce Aimed To Do God's Work In Wood

An exhibition at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia showcases the art of barber, Baptist preacher and self-taught woodworker Elijah Pierce.

October 01, 2020
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  • Susan Stamberg

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  • Fine Art

If You Have To Wear A Mask, It Might As Well Be A Masterpiece

Many museums are still closed, but their gift shops are doing lively face mask business. You can mask up with a Monet, a van Gogh or, perhaps best suited to These Times: Edvard Munch's The Scream.

September 17, 2020
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  • Susan Stamberg
Monet's <em>Water Lilies,</em> 1907

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  • Fine Art

Boston's Museum Of Fine Arts Turns 150, Celebrates Monet's 'Lasting Impression'

The MFA is currently closed — hoping to re-open in the fall — but it's marking its 150th anniversary online in the exhibition "Monet and Boston: Lasting Impression."

September 01, 2020
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  • Susan Stamberg
A Vhils work at La Condition Publique in Roubaix, in northern France, in March 2017.

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  • Fine Art

It's 'Part Of The Game': This Artist Isn't Bothered When His Work Is Demolished

Portuguese street artist Alexandre Manuel Dias Farto — aka Vhils — makes art on dilapidated buildings. He uses a chisel, a drill and explosives in a process he calls "creative destruction."

August 17, 2020
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  • Susan Stamberg
In Jennifer Steinkamp's digital animations, trees gradually change color, lose leaves, sprout new leaves, grow flowers, and drop petals to the ground. She's done a series of such trees in honor of teachers who've had a profound influence on her.

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  • Fine Art

'It Lowers Your Blood Pressure': Spend A Few Moments With These Hypnotic Trees

In her childhood art classes, Jennifer Steinkamp used to make trees with sponges and paint. Now, as a video artist, her installations feature tree animations — some are named after her art teachers.

August 06, 2020
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  • Susan Stamberg
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  • Fine Art

A Wedding Gift For Charles Lindbergh Goes Up On The Wall, At Last

In 1929, the President of Mexico gave the aviator a painting by Mexican artist Alfredo Ramos Martínez. Flores Mexicanas sat in storage at the Missouri Historical Society until 2014.

July 24, 2020
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By:
  • Susan Stamberg

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  • Fine Art

Need 2 Minutes Of Calm? Inhale, Exhale ... And Click Here

San Francisco's Asian Art Museum has been asking staffers to highlight favorite objects in the collection. Curator Forrest McGill chose the base of a hookah, made in 17th century India.

July 09, 2020
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By:
  • Susan Stamberg

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