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Arts
San Francisco Art Institute Headquarters Sold to Group Led by Laurene Powell Jobs
The sale includes a 1931 Diego Rivera mural, which has been valued at $50 million.
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Books
Inspired by a Real Mystery, This Novel Skewers the Art World
In “Anita de Monte Laughs Last,” by Xochitl Gonzalez, two Latina women working a decade apart fight to break out…
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News
When an Artist Dies, Who Owns Her Story?
The Cuban artist Ana Mendieta fell from a window of her 34th-floor apartment in 1985. Her family members have been…
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News
Günter Brus, Artist Who Shocked Postwar Austria, Dies at 85
A founder of a transgressive 1960s movement known as Viennese Actionism, he used his body as a canvas and blood…
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How Contemporary Artists Are Taking Papier-Mâché Out of the Classroom
A new wave of self-taught craftspeople are using the medium to make playful, thought-provoking works.
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Arts
Land Art Comes Indoors as Dia Highlights Meg Webster
Nine sculptures exhibited at Dia Beacon from soil, beeswax, moss and other outdoor elements, date from Webster’s breakout period of…
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Arts
Frieze Los Angeles Opens Amid Attention to Asian Artists
Spurred by population growth and new patron support, artists from China, Japan, South Korea and the Philippines are getting more…
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Arts
Surrealism Is 100. The World’s Still Surreal.
This is not an article. It’s a fish in the shape of a piano, floating in a clear blue sky,…
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News
Is There Something Radical About Painting Flowers?
Many artists who made their names in figurative work are now creating a different sort of portrait.
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Arts
Jeffrey Gibson Will Bring Sculptures of Ancestral Spirits to Met Facade
The Met named its 2025 art commissions, which include Gibson’s facade sculptures and a roof garden installation by the soundsmith…