art

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/5/2019
  

  The Exhibit Lauded Freedom of Expression. It Was Silenced.

  Statues of so-called comfort women have long been an irritant to Japanese nationalists who dispute that the women were forced into servitude.

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• SOURCE: Frieze
  June 24, 2019
  

  The Untold Queer History of California

  by Bryony White

  Vital indigenous perspectives are highlighted in an exhibition of art and activism at the Oakland Museum, which spans the state’s colonial past to the present.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  June 19, 2019
  

  The Photographer Who Captured 20th-Century Queer Life

  by Hannah Giorgis

  Joan E. Biren’s images from the ’70s and ’80s—which appear in the new exhibit “Art After Stonewall”—reflect an effort to document and encourage lesbian love.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/9/19
  

  Now for Sale on Facebook: Looted Middle Eastern Antiquities

  Artifacts said to have been taken from the ancient city of Palmyra, Syria have been offered for sale on Facebook.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/19/19
  

  A half-century before the hashtag, artists were on the front lines of #MeToo

  by Vivien G. Fryd

  The cultural prominence of rape and sexual assault might be new. Efforts to bring attention to the issue, however, are not.

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• 3/17/19
  

  Why is the Mona Lisa not the Mona Lisa?

  by Jean-Pierre Isbouts and Christopher Brown

  New research suggests the famous painting in the Louvre does not depict Mona Lisa.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/6/19
  

  Are These Paintings Really by Hitler? German Authorities Are Investigating

  In the last 10 years, the niche market for art by Hitler has grown. But many, if not most, of these works are likely not by Hitler. 

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  1/10/19
  

  Why British Lawmakers Are Fighting Over a Bust of Oliver Cromwell

  Cromwell is alternately lauded as the “heroic military and political leader” who defended Parliament and vilified as a ruthless war criminal responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent Catholics.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1-2-2019
  

  Uffizi Prods Germans to Return Painting Stolen in World War II

  A German family has the artwork, and refuses to give it back. The Italian museum has mounted a publicity campaign in an effort to get German authorities to intervene.

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• SOURCE: Colossal
  12-28-2018
  

  Google Builds a Digital Reproduction of the National Museum of Brazil After its Tragic Destruction

  The digital recreation is presented by Museum View (which uses the same functionality as Google Street View), and allows visitors to explore the institution’s key artifacts as they were displayed before this year’s tragic destruction.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-27-2018
  

  For Italy’s Populists, Everything Is a Nationalist Cause. Even Leonardo.

  The hard-right government has accused the French of disrespect and of trying to culturally appropriate the artist in a dispute over loaning his works.

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• SOURCE: Artsy
  12-26-2018
  

  The 15 Biggest Art Historical Discoveries of 2018

  From cave paintings to Caravaggio, our understanding of the art of the past—and its relationship to the present—became much more nuanced thanks to the dramatic discoveries of 2018.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  11-26-18
  

  Five Countries Slow to Address Nazi-Looted Art, U.S. Expert Says

  An estimated 600,000 paintings had been stolen during the war and 100,000 remain missing.

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• SOURCE: hyperallergic.com
  11-27-18
  

  Facebook Censors Art Historian for Posting Nude Art, Then Boots Him from Platform

  Ruben Cordova used his social media profile as an archive of his research, but his photos of the Met Breuer’s Like Life exhibition triggered Facebook’s censors, who then permanently disabled his profile.

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• SOURCE: New Republic
  8-14-18
  

  The British Museum’s “Looting” Problem

  by Josephine Livingstone

  The venerable museum has "given back" some stolen Iraqi antiquities, but that does not mean it's ready to atone for its colonial-era sins.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  8-9-18
  

  Historian Asserts That Leonardo’s Assistant Painted Majority of ‘Salvator Mundi’

  The Oxford research fellow names Bernardino Luini as main artist, believes da Vinci only painted between five to 20 percent of the painting.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  6-26-18
  

  A Botched Statue Restoration in Spain. Is That St. George or Tintin?

  Instead of returning the statue to its original glory, the so-called restoration left St. George looking more like a childish model of a cartoon character than a precious piece of art.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  5-16-18
  

  A New Rembrandt? A Dutch Art Dealer Says He’s Found One

  The Dutch art dealer Jan Six says that he has discovered a new Rembrandt, a portrait of an unidentified young man that he purchased at a Christie’s auction in London.

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  1-18-18
  

  Is Art Museum Attendance Declining Across the US?

  There are signs that attendance in many museums across the country is slowly falling, but the reasons why are still to be determined.

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• SOURCE: Special to HNN
  5-1-17
  

  Freedom and Form: Frédéric Bazille at the National Gallery

  by Sam Ben-Meir

  Our nation’s capital is hosting a painter who was a champion of the fine arts in all its forms as the Trump administration is trying to defund the NEA.