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Matisse: The Joy of Things
Matisse, unsurprisingly, had strong feelings about the objects of his daily life. They delighted, inspired, or confounded him, in their humble ordinariness and in all that they evoked. These mundane items, the organizing principle for the exhilarating show at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, served as sparks for Matisse’s art. By Claire Messud.
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Nobody Will Make Us Do Yoga: A Conversation with Michel Houellebecq
The acclaimed and controversial French author discusses his new show of photographs. By Christian Lorentzen.
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The Magus of Paris
Joséphin Péladan’s mystical art exhibitions, in Paris, set the stage for everything from Kandinsky’s abstractions to Eliot’s “The Waste Land.” By Alex Ross.
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‘8th World Wonder’ May Lie Below Volcanic Lakeshore
Using a 19th century cartographer’s field diary, researchers think they’ve found the location of a revered landmark thought to be destroyed. By Sarah Gibbens.
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Sydney Opera House sails to light up every sunset with Indigenous art
The late Aboriginal artist Lin Onus hoped his art would create “some sort of bridge” between Indigenous and European cultures, yet it is unlikely he would have imagined his work flying across the sails of the Sydney Opera House every sunset. By Julie Power.
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In Detroit, Artists Explore the Riches of the 99-Cent Store
For a summer exhibition titled “99 Cents or Less,” the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit has begun to resemble a dollar shop. By Chris Hampton.
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Myth-Maker of the Brothel
Of all the masters of the woodblock print in the Edo Period, Utamaro has the most colorful reputation. Hokusai was perhaps the greatest draughtsman… By Ian Buruma.
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Hubert de Givenchy Talks Jackie, Audrey, And The Duke Of Windsor Counting His Cash
Hubert de Givenchy talks Jackie, Audrey, and the Duke of Windsor counting his cash
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The Weird Illustrations That Shaped Sci-Fi Pop Culture
A century ago, a small but influential group of artists and researchers teamed up to discover and introduce strange new species to the public. By Sam Lubell.
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Clothes That Don’t Need You
What kind of artist is Rei Kawakubo? Let’s call her a combinatory formalist. She is unusually adept at combining the many disparate influences that course through her designs into unlikely, arresting, contrapuntal compositions. She is first of all a creator of images—of pictures liberated from their original settings, and in this she belongs with the Pictures Generation, that group of mediacentric artists who were among her first devotees. Fashion is the place where the associative, imagistic mind can run riot with impunity; it’s a postmodernist playground. By David Salle.
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The False Advertising of Sophistically Decorated, 19th-Century Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
These skillfully and elaborately designed cards were distributed by merchants to their customers in the late 19th century. By Claire Voon.
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An Artist for the Instagram Age
Is Yayoi Kusama’s new participatory-art exhibit about seeking profound experiences—or posting selfies?
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How can you show that the Snowden disclosures are everybody’s business?
What’s to become of the Snowden files? Are these documents to be re-appropriated into the system they sought to expose – or can the leaks be elevated to the realm of the commons? By Alina Floroi.
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‘Dollhouses of Death’: New Hampshire woman’s crime-scene dioramas have taught investigators
Growing up in the late 19th century, Frances Glessner Lee was a typical young lady from a well-to-do family, but she had one rather unorthodox passion. Murder was her hobby. By Shawne K. Wickham.
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The never before told story of the man in the infamous ‘Fuck the Draft’ posters
Of the many stories of official government suppression that came out of the Vietnam War era protest movements, one of the most compelling is the saga of Kiyoshi Kuromiya’s indelible “Fuck the Draft” poster. By Ron Kretsch.
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A Brief History of the Color Pink
From Renaissance portraits to rose gold iPhones, here’s a brief history of pink in art—and beyond. By Alice Bucknell.
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200 Artifacts of Witchcraft Cast a Spell in Cornell's “The World Bewitch’d”
The exhibit, full of manuscripts, photographs and posters, highlights the history of witchcraft in Europe. By Brigit Katz.
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We should thank Melania Trump for spotlighting the joy of Scary Christmas
People around the world have long embraced the spooky side of the holiday season. By Jenni Avins. (Nov. 29, 2017)
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Useful Only for Scrap Paper: Michelangelo’s Drawings
Charles Hope reviews "Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer" at Metropolitan Museum, New York, until 12 February 2018.
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Napoleon’s Chamber Pot: Propaganda and Fake News
Napoleon, with his aggrandizing bulletins and heroic portraits orchestrated down to the smallest detail, was a master of self-promotion. By Nina Martyris.
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