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Caravaggio becomes a comic strip antihero

It seems you haven’t really made it as an artist until there’s a comic book about you. Caravaggio is the latest to have joined the ranks of artists, including Egon Schiele, Hokusai and Frieda Kahlo, immortalised in the so-called ninth art with a new comic book by Milo Manara, published by the French house Glénat.…

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The Whitney Opens With a Winner

Let’s cut to the chase: the Whitney Museum of American Art’s inaugural show in its new home in the Meatpacking District, “America Is Hard to See,” is outstanding. With about 600 works by a little over 400 artists, it offers a history of American art—and America—that is richly textured and that teems with beloved classics…

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[ArtExpo] Future Identities – Bodies . Places . Spaces | Buenos Aires – OPENING April 25, 2015‏

Future Identities – Bodies . Places . Spaces | Buenos Aires Laura Haber Gallery, Buenos Aires (Argentina) OPENING: April 25, 2015 International ArtExpo, in collaboration with Laura Haber Gallery, is proud to announce the opening of Future Identities – Bodies . Places . Spaces, international exhibition of photography, video-art, painting, installation and performance art, that…

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First major exhibition in the UK to present a history of Indigenous Australia opens

LONDON.- The British Museum will open a major exhibition presenting a history of Indigenous Australia, supported by BP. This exhibition will be the first in the UK devoted to the history and culture of Indigenous Australians: both Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islanders. Drawing on objects from the British Museum’s collection, accompanied by important loans…

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Burnishing the Night: Baroque to Contemporary Mezzotints from the Collection

  Saturday, February 21, 2015–Sunday, May 31, 2015 Galleries 125–127 Excelling in eerie effects and seductive textures, the late 17th-century medium of mezzotint blossomed from an amateur fascination and hobby of members of the nobility to the 18th century’s most popular reproductive printmaking method. Mezzotint engraving allowed artists to burnish soft highlights and volume into…

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Art Institute of Chicago to receive largest gift of art in the museum’s 136-year history

CHICAGO, IL.- Douglas Druick, President and Eloise W. Martin Director of the Art Institute of Chicago, announced today the largest gift of art in the museum’s 136-year history: the Edlis/Neeson Collection, 42 iconic masterpieces of contemporary art donated by the Chicago-based collectors and philanthropists Stefan T. Edlis and his wife, Gael Neeson. The gift includes…

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Overview of the paintings, drawings and engravings of Le Corbusier opens at Galerie Eric Mouchet

PARIS.- To mark the fiftieth anniversary of Le Corbusier’s death at sea off the Mediterranean coast on 27 August 1965, Galerie Eric Mouchet is joining forces with Galerie Zlotowski in an exhibition in their respective venues on rue Jacob and rue de Seine. On display is a comprehensive overview of the paintings, drawings and engravings…