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News Articles: Series: Art Where You're At

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
Adelyn Dohme Breeskin studio portrait, 1961 Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

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  • Fine Art

How Pioneering Museum Director Adelyn Breeskin Helped 'People To See'

An exhibition at The Baltimore Museum of Art pays tribute to the first woman to head a major metropolitan museum. She helped the museum acquire Matisse, Cassatt, Cézanne and Van Gogh masterpieces.

May 27, 2021
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  • Susan Stamberg
Alice Neel<em>, Self‑Portrait, 1980 </em>

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  • Fine Art

Alice Neel's Paintings Meet The Moment At The Met

Painter Alice Neel's first retrospective in 20 years is both timely and ambitious. And people are flocking to see her portraits, a chronicle of the 20th century through expressive faces and figures.

May 14, 2021
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  • Susan Stamberg
Alyssa Monks, <em>Transfixed (drawing),</em> 2020, vine charcoal on paper

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  • Arts & Life

'Drawing Inspiration' From Artists Who Make Their Mark On Paper, Not Canvas

"Drawings show the hand of the artist," says Nicola Lorenz, Executive Director of Manhattan's Forum Gallery and curator of this exhibition. "No two artists make their marks in the same way,"

April 22, 2021
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  • Susan Stamberg
Niki de Saint Phalle in September 1967

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  • Fine Art

How Niki De Saint Phalle Channeled Pain Into Joyful, Vibrant Works Of Art

The artist said she learned to "translate emotions, fear, violence, hope and joy into painting." An exhibition of her work is now on view at MoMa PS1 in New York.

April 08, 2021
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  • Susan Stamberg
Frankenthaler at work in her studio in 1969.

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  • Fine Art

With 'Fierce Poise,' Helen Frankenthaler Poured Beauty Onto Canvas

Abstract expressionist Helen Frankenthaler poured pools of highly diluted pigments onto her raw canvases. Biographer Alexander Nemerov says her paintings are "about feeling the world."

March 23, 2021
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  • Susan Stamberg
Frida Kahlo,<em> Diego and Frida 1929 – 1944,</em> 1944, oil on masonite with original painted shell frame, private collection, courtesy Galería Arvi

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  • Fine Art

5 Lesser-Known, Late-In-Life Works By Frida Kahlo Now On View In Dallas

"In this difficult period, people feel a strong connection to Kahlo's sorrows and triumphs," says Dallas Museum of Art curator Mark A. Castro. Kahlo made these paintings as her health deteriorated.

March 08, 2021
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  • Susan Stamberg
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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  • 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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  • 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
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