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Editors’ Picks: 12 Events for Your Virtual Art Calendar This Week, From the Making of a Gerhard Richter Documentary to an Online Fair for Digital Art

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Jun 22, 2020
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Spain Has Been Hit by Yet Another Bungling Restorer, Who Turned This Virgin Mary Painting Into an Unrecognizable Blob

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Diego Rivera’s ‘Flower Day’ Celebrates the Struggle of Post-Revolutionary Mexico—Here Are Three Things You Might Not Know About It

Aug 17, 2020
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Mexican artist Diego Rivera casts a long shadow on the history of 20th-century art, capturing the energy of post-revolutionary Mexico with a style that improbably fused four influences: Aztec culture, Cubism, Renaissance frescos, and socialist realism.  Among his many stylized pictures of working people, flower vendors are among his most famous subjects. Flower Day (Día...

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How Artist Lucien Smith, Fed Up With Speculators and Dealers, Quit His Galleries and Got His First Solo Museum Show

Aug 18, 2020
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In 2013, just two years out of art school, the artist Lucien Smith had already become a cautionary tale. That year, his painting Hobbes, The Rain Man, and My Friend Barney / Under the Sycamore Tree set a stratospheric auction record at Phillips New York, when it sold for $389,000. Smith saw two more years of

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Editors’ Picks: 7 Things for Your Art Calendar This Week, From a Ruth Asawa-Inspired Workshop to an Outdoor Photo Show

Aug 17, 2020
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Each week, we search New York City for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events. In light of the global health situation, we are currently highlighting digital events, as well as in-person exhibitions open in the New York area. (Times are all EST unless otherwise noted.)    Monday, August 17—Sunday, November 29 In

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‘Landscapes Opened a Whole New World for Me’: Artist Shara Hughes on How She Subverts the Tradition of Flower Painting

Aug 17, 2020
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Kaleidoscopic landscapes and riotous bursts of flowers are the signatures of Brooklyn-based artist Shara Hughes—scenes she creates entirely from her imagination. The artist’s third solo show with Zurich’s Galerie Eva Presenhuber, “Day By Day By Day,” opened in June, but she will not have seen it in person by the time it closes in September. “It’s very strange,”

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