An Artist Brings Alive the Worlds Dancing in Her Head
Camille Henrot of Paris has been relentless in the pursuit of her art. Now that drive is paying off.
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Photo CreditJessica Kourkounis for The New York Times This Famous Art Was Hidden in a Shed for 16 Years
Harry Bertoia’s sculpture “Free Interpretation of Plant Forms” will move to the Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia.
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Photo CreditLigoranoReese Political Art in a Fractious Election Year
As the campaign season enters the nominating stage, no image has emerged that approaches the power of Shepard Fairey’s 2008 “Hope” poster for Barack Obama.
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Photo CreditSuzanne Opton/The LIFE Images Collection, via Getty Images Keno Brothers, ‘Antiques Roadshow’ Stars, Face Debt and Legal Challenge
Leigh and Leslie Keno, celebrity appraisers who have appeared on “Antiques Roadshow,” went on a buying spree this spring that left them with nearly $600,000 in debt.
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Photo Creditvia Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona Review: In Goya’s Shadow, Andrea Fraser’s Videos Skewer Social Institutions
The show “Andrea Fraser: L’1%, c’est moi,” at the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, questions the collusion of business, government and art.
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Photo CreditRobert Keziere, via Ydessa Hendeles and the Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto Object Lessons: The New Museum Explores Why We Keep Things
Curators at the New Museum have created an exhibit with over 4,000 objects that examines the various ways we collect and own items.
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Photo CreditTony Cenicola/The New York Times Met Job Cuts Could Exceed 100 in a Move to Steady Finances
Just three months after announcing a hiring freeze and voluntary buyouts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is turning to layoffs in core areas.
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Photo CreditUllstein Bild, via Getty Images Nazi Art Loot Returned ... to Nazis
Research shows that hundreds of works stolen by the Nazis were sold back to them under pressure at a discount after World War II.
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Art Review
Photo CreditDiane Arbus/The Estate of Diane Arbus LLC Previously Unseen Arbus, Unearthed Years After Her Death
“Diane Arbus: In the Beginning” shows, among other things, that Arbus settled early on many of her major themes.
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Art Review
Photo CreditMuseo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Watteau’s Peacefully Bittersweet War Scenes
Watteau paintings in a show at the Frick Collection depict 18th-century French soldiers far from the battle, in scenes at once ordinary and mysterious.
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Photo CreditJohn Akomfrah/Smoking Dogs Films; Jack Hems, Lisson Gallery What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week
Art in review, from Times critics.
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Art Review
Photo CreditAlex Wroblewski/The New York Times Bleak Reality in Nan Goldin’s ‘The Ballad of Sexual Dependency’
The photographer’s autobiographical slide show at MoMA reflects the devastating effects of a 1980s counterculture.
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Inside Art
Photo CreditThe Morgan Library & Museum A Brontë Exhibition, Complete With a ‘Jane Eyre’ Manuscript
To celebrate that author’s 200th birthday, the Morgan Library & Museum will host “Charlotte Brontë: An Independent Will,” opening on Sept. 9.
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Art Review
Photo CreditKronos Collections, The Metropolitan Museum of Art ‘Divine Pleasures’ Celebrates the Colors of Desire in Indian Paintings
This show features nearly 100 Hindu watercolor and ink works made in northern regions from the 16th to 19th centuries.
