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PJ Harper Turned His Early Fascination with Dolls into Sculptures That Celebrate Blackness
As a white-passing mixed-race boy coming of age in Scotland, PJ Harper was surrounded by subtle negativity and outright racism that made him...
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Ellsworth Kelly Was Born 100 Years Ago and Museums Are Commemorating it with Focused Exhibitions
Ellsworth Kelly kept everything. Yes, this painter of spare, monochromatic canvases and sculptor of abstract forms held firmly onto the minutiae...
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Disgraced Florida Dealer Gets Prison Time for Peddling Fake Basquiats, Warhols
Palm Beach art dealer Daniel Elie Bouaziz has been sentenced to 27 months in federal prison, followed by three years’ probation, for a money...
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Fake-Warhol Dealer Sentenced, Architect Paolo Portoghesi Dies at 92, and More: Morning Links for May 31, 2023
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How Japanese American Artist Kyohei Inukai Forged a New Path for Abstraction by Looking to the Past
When Chicago-born artist Kyohei Inukai took his estranged father’s ashes to Japan in 1954, he felt finally that he was home for the first time....
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Mohammed Sami, a Former Propaganda Painter, Creates Haunting Interiors That Hover Between Abstraction and Figuration
The silhouetted figure at in Mohammed Sami’s painting The Fountain I (2021) may be more familiar in toppled form. Here, the famous statue of...
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Artists Are Launching Cutting-Edge Residencies Outside New York City
In the early 2000s, artists Julie Mehretu and Paul Pfeiffer, working with architectural historian Lawrence Chua, acquired a 200-acre plot of...
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Venice Canal Mysteriously Turns Green, Egypt Finds Mummification Workshops, and More: Morning Links for May 30, 2023
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Ilya Kabakov, Pioneering Installation Artist and Gimlet-Eyed Critic of Russia, Dies at 89
Ilya Kabakov, an artist whose expansive works sharply directed their aim at the imploded dreams of the Soviet Union, ushering in new...
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25 Pathbreaking Asian American Artists Whose Names You Need to Know
As Asian American and Pacific Islander History Month winds down, it’s important to note how many AAPI artists, architects, collectors, and...