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Here’s How to Make Millions as an Art Forger
A very old (and very easy?) way to make a fortune
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Why didn’t people smile in old photos?
As people asking Google this question have accurately observed, smiles are grimly absent from early photographs.
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Metropolitan Museum Initiative Provides Free Access to 400,000 Digital Images
Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced today that more than 400,000 high-resolution digital images of public domain works... (May 16, 2014)
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The Accidental Color That Redirected Human Expression
Discovered by a Chemist, Prussian Blue Gave Painters the Spontaneity They Were Missing. By John Griswold.
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Splendors of the Dead
Twenty-one Greek museums and four North American museums have cooperated to collect over five hundred artifacts from Ancient Greece in an extraordinary exhibition called “The Greeks: Agamemnon to Alexander the Great.” By Garry Wills.
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How Art Became Irrelevant
A chronological survey of the demise of art. By Michael J. Lewis. (July 1)
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Falling Idols
Public monuments, Islamic State and contesting the story of the past, By Marina Warner. (Oct.)
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Vermeer as scientist
Claudia Swan reviews Laura J. Snyder’s “Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the reinvention of seeing.”
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Liubov Popova, an Homage
Sometime in the late 1970s, Miriam Schapiro and Elaine Lustig Cohen gathered a group of feminist artists and writers around my dining room table with a proposal… By Joyce Kozloff. (Jan. 2)
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Remembering Peggy Guggenheim, the Sexually Liberated Socialite Who Shaped Modern Art
She was divorced, globe-trotting Jewish aristocrat who championed modern art in the face of the Nazis and broke all the rules of the fussy society she was born into. By Nell Frizzell.
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Inside the LSD Museum That the DEA Somehow Hasn’t Torn to the Ground
McCloud surmises that most blotter art was created so manufacturers, dealers, and imbibers could identify the origins of the acid in their possession. By Margaret Rhodes.
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Download All 36 of Jan Vermeer’s Beautifully Rare Paintings (Most in High Resolution)
Imagine the scene: you uncover a painting stored away in the closet of an elderly relative's home, coated in a blanket of dust so thick you can hardly make out anything but more dust underneath. You slide it out, begin to carefully brush it off, and find two piercing eyes peering out at you.
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Fascinating Photos from the Secret Trash Museum in a New York Sanitation Garage
Garbage can be beautiful, if sorted correctly. By Dylan Thuras.
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The Real Thing
Jenni Quilter reviews “Restless Ambition: Grace Hartigan, Painter” by Cathy Curtis.
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The life and death of Mummy Brown
This article by Philip McCouat tells the extraordinary story of how the crumbled remains of mummies came to be used by European artists right up to the twentieth century
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Eight Art Thefts That Went Wrong
Pablo Picasso, who would go on to become the world’s most frequently pilfered artist, once said, “Good artists copy; great artists steal.” Bad ones? They get caught. Here are the stories of eight attempted art heists that were something less than masterpieces. By Abigail Cain and Isaac Kaplan. (June 22, 2016)
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All-Night French Fries with T-Rex
Seattle’s Trippiest Rock-Poster Artist Tells All. By Ben Marks. (May 25, 2016)
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Getting Closer to Vermeer with Three New Books on the Artist
Vermeer died twice. The first time was in 1675, after the Dutch art market collapsed. The second time was when history forgot him: shortly after his death, he disappeared from cultural memory.
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Painting once written off as £20 copy reassessed as £20m Raphael
Madonna composition at National Trust’s Haddo House was spotted by a historian making a BBC TV series. By Dalya Alberge.
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Was modern art a weapon of the CIA?
The Abstract Expressionists emerged from obscurity in the late 1940s to establish New York as the centre of the art world. But were they pawns of US spies in the Cold War? By Alastair Sooke.
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