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News Articles: Series: Art Where You're At

Left, <em>Madame Moitessier,</em> 1856 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, oil on canvas, The National Gallery, London and right, <em>Woman with a Book,</em> 1932, Pablo Picasso, oil on canvas, The Norton Simon Foundation, Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society(ARS), New York

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  • Fine Art

Two painters, two women, two portraits — one fascinating story of artistic influence

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Pablo Picasso painted these portraits more than 75 years apart. But there's a clear connection between the two — and you can now see them on display together.

November 02, 2022
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  • Susan Stamberg
Image from Toiletpaper (December 2012), courtesy of the artists and LACMA Balch Art Research Library. Copyright <em>Toiletpaper</em> magazine (Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari)

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  • Art & Design

Art and advertising collide in 'Objects of Desire'

An exhibition at Los Angeles County Museum of Art takes the vocabulary of ads (bright color, shiny surfaces, slick lighting) and manipulates, repositions, rearranges it into fine art.

October 19, 2022
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By:
  • Susan Stamberg
Robert Adams, <em>Pikes Peak, Colorado Springs</em>, 1969 gelatin silver print image: 14 x 14.9 cm (5 1/2 x 5 7/8 in.) Private collection, San Francisco.

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  • Photography

America, the (disappearing) beautiful

Robert Adams' obsession with the decay and beauty of the American landscape is on display at the National Gallery's exhibition "American Silence: The Photographs of Robert Adams."

August 12, 2022
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  • Susan Stamberg
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
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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
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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By:
  • Susan Stamberg
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
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
Elise Tensley, Kellen Johnson and Traci Archable-Frederick are three of the 17 security guards who curated <em>Guarding the Art.</em>

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  • Fine Art

Meet the security guards moonlighting as curators at the Baltimore Museum of Art

The museum invited their security officers to curate an exhibition of their own. The result is a show filled with art from the sixth to the 21st century.

February 23, 2022
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  • Susan Stamberg
Lou Stovall, working in his studio

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  • Fine Art

How Lou Stovall took silkscreen-printing from grocery stores to gallery walls

The famed silkscreen printer, whose work is on display at the Kreeger Museum's exhibition "Lou Stovall: On Inventions and Color," pioneered an artform while building community in Washington, D.C.

February 07, 2022
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  • Susan Stamberg
<em>Picture for Women</em>, 1979, transparency in lightbox

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  • Photography

Why the photographer Jeff Wall relies on memory — not his camera — to make his art

Glenstone Museum in Potomac, Md., is hosting five decades worth of art by Canadian Jeff Wall, a photographer who begins a work "by not photographing."

December 03, 2021
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  • Susan Stamberg
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
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
Robert Longo,<em> Untitled (Capitol)</em>, 2012-2013. Charcoal on mounted paper. Installation image by Lance Gerber for the Palm Springs Art Museum's exhibition <em>Storm of Hope: Law & Disorder</em>.

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  • Photography

Look Closely: These Black-And-White Images Are Not What They Seem

Seven massive pieces by the artist Robert Longo are on view in the exhibition Storm of Hope: Law & Disorder at the Palm Springs Art Museum in California. They look like photographs — but are they?

August 09, 2021
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  • Susan Stamberg
Lee Miller, <em>Self-Portrait with Headband</em> (variant), 1932 gelatin silver print, Lee Miller Studios Inc., New York

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  • Photography

Behind The Lens, These Women Created Photographs That Leap Over Decades

Two current museum exhibitions — The Woman Who Broke Boundaries at the Dali Museum and The New Woman Behind the Camera at the Metropolitan Museum of Art — celebrate women photographers.

July 25, 2021
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  • Susan Stamberg
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