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A Random Walk Down Art Basel/ Miami Beach*: A Financial Advisor Considers Art...
Tony Oursler, H2Out (2006) Fiberglass, projector, speakers, flash media player 55"x42"x32". Lehmann Maupin Gallery, NY New England’s harsh winds and beating rain seemed to be conspiring against me as I...
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Critic, Diane Dewey, Reviews the New Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg,...
If you are concerned about the numerous fake Salvador Dali signatures floating around, here’s another one to consider: located at the top of the Yann Weymouth designed, (HOK, http://www.hok.com/) the...
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FDR’s ‘New Deal’ and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Help Define...
In my small New England city, the post office was a down-scaled, classically-inspired structure of harmonious proportions, designed to serve as a symbolic link to a democratic ideal, filled with...
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Art Economist, Michael Moses Looks Objectively at Wealth Management for Art...
A brisk mid-winter walk through the streets of lower Manhattan eventually led me under the iconic Romanesque arch that stands at the center of Washington Square. To my left, a uniformly-pristine...
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Examining the Social Responsibility of Museums in a Changing World
Controversial Smithsonian Air & Space 2011 Military Unmanned Aircraft Exhibit Editor’s Note: Here, Ken Yellis’ analysis of the museum world gains particular currency in today’s political climate:...
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Cashing in on Culture: Betraying the Trust at the Rose Art Museum
Scholar and art critic, Francine Koslow Miller, Ph.D., has recently completed a book, Cashing in on Culture: Betraying the Trust at the Rose Art Museum (Hol Art Books, Tucson, Arizona, 2012)...
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Super Storm Sandy Takes Its Toll on Contemporary Art
Damage after Super Storm Sandy drove flood waters into the Chelsea gallery district. Photo: Terri Ciccone and John Vorwald Hurricane Sandy devastated New York’s Chelsea Gallery district. Hit...
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New Haven’s Yale University Art Gallery Re-Opens after Extensive Renovation
A recent tour of the newly expanded and renovated Yale University Art Gallery, in New Haven Connecticut, has visitors treading on a little-noticed engraved marker inlayed in the stone floor of the...
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New York Historical Society with Comprehensive Exhibit of James Audubon...
John James Audubon, Carolina Parakeet, (extinct) Havell pl. 26 (1825). All images collection NY Historical Society. John James Audubon (1785-1851) was not the first person to attempt to paint and...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art Fuses French Impressionism, Fashion, Modernity
“We find ourselves faced with the only reality—despite ourselves we encourage our painters to reproduce us on their canvases just as we are, with our costumes and customs.” ~Émile Zola (1868) Does life...
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Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Exhibits, ‘In with the New! Recent Gifts on...
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA In with the New! Recent Gifts on Paper, on display at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts until March 30, offers a wide variety of works for every...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art’s, The Cloisters: Radiant Light: Canterbury...
A rare exhibition of stained glass from England’s historic Canterbury Cathedral on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s, The Cloisters, through May 18, 2014. It features six Romanesque-period...
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Editor’s Letter
“We have art in order not to die of the truth.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche Left: *Raphael, Portrait of a Young Man (Self-portrait?), 1513-14. Plundered by Nazis in Poland. Never recovered. Estimated...
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The Gropius House, Historic Architecture:1938 Bauhaus Home in Lincoln, Mass.
Bauhaus, German design center, Dessau, Germany (1919-1933). Closed by the Nazis Walter Gropius (1883-1969) was a highly celebrated German architect and master teacher. He is considered one of the most...
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Cashing in on Culture: Betraying the Trust at the Rose Art Museum
Scholar and art critic, Francine Koslow Miller, Ph.D., has recently completed a book, Cashing in on Culture: Betraying the Trust at the Rose Art Museum (Hol Art Books, Tucson, Arizona, 2012)...
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Super Storm Sandy Takes Its Toll on Contemporary Art
Damage after Super Storm Sandy drove flood waters into the Chelsea gallery district. Photo: Terri Ciccone and John Vorwald Hurricane Sandy devastated New York’s Chelsea Gallery district. Hit...
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New Haven’s Yale University Art Gallery Re-Opens after Extensive Renovation
A recent tour of the newly expanded and renovated Yale University Art Gallery, in New Haven Connecticut, has visitors treading on a little-noticed engraved marker inlayed in the stone floor of the...
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New York Historical Society with Comprehensive Exhibit of James Audubon...
John James Audubon, Carolina Parakeet, (extinct) Havell pl. 26 (1825). All images collection NY Historical Society. John James Audubon (1785-1851) was not the first person to attempt to paint and...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art Fuses French Impressionism, Fashion, Modernity
“We find ourselves faced with the only reality—despite ourselves we encourage our painters to reproduce us on their canvases just as we are, with our costumes and customs.” ~Émile Zola (1868) Does life...
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Trinity College, Dublin, and a National Treasure—The Book of Kells
Folio 34r contains the ‘Chi Rho’ monogram. ‘Chi’ and ‘rho’ are the first two letters of the word Christ in Greek. The exhibition, Treasures of Early Irish Art traveled to American museums for two...
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