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Senegal Postpones Dakar Biennale by Six Months amid Widespread Protests
The 15th edition of the Dakar Biennale, in Dakar, Senegal, will not open on May 16 as originally scheduled: it has been postponed to November,...
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Who Was Mary Cassatt and Why Was She So Important?
One of the notable distinctions of the first exhibition of the Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, Printmakers, etc. (later known as the...
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Pope Visits Venice Biennale, Dakar Biennale Postponed, Vienna Actionism Show Protested, and More: Morning Links for April 29, 2024
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Potential Legal Heir Emerges to Claim Long-lost Klimt Portrait Auctioned in Vienna
A potential heir to the legal successor of Adolf Lieser has emerged and claimed ownership of the Gustav Klimt portrait sold for $32 million in a...
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Dani Levinas, Art Enthusiast Who ‘Collected Collectors,’ Dies at 75
Dani Levinas, an art collector who gained a following for interviewing other collectors, has died at 75. The Phillips Collection in Washington,...
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Moscow’s Garage Museum Is Reportedly Searched by Police Amid Crackdown on LGBTQ+ Literature
Various Russian publications reported on Friday that Moscow’s Garage Museum of Contemporary Art was being searched by local police,...
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At Americas Society, Artists Look at the Myth That Started Natural Resource Extraction in Latin America
In Colombian artist Carlos Motta’s 2013 video, Nefandus , an indigenous man and a Spanish man travel down Colombia’s Don Diego River telling...
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In the Early 20th Century, Jean Cocteau’s Queer Art Was Notably Cocksure
This essay originally appeared in Reframed , the Art in America newsletter about art that surprises us and works that get us worked...
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John Cage’s Frequently Misunderstood 4’33” Remains a Masterpiece
John Cage’s 1952 work 4′33″ has proven a touchstone for artists, composers, and thinkers of all kinds, spawning conceptual artworks,...
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Louvre Considers Moving Mona Lisa To Underground Chamber To End ‘Public Disappointment’
When I took my mother back to Paris for her first visit in nearly five decades, there was no question we would go to the Louvre. I was more...