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One Fine Show: “The Print Generation” at the National Museum of Asian Art
Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum not in New York City, a place we ...
Creative progress or mass theft? Why a major AI art auction is provoking wonder—and outrage
Thirty-four artworks created with artificial intelligence (AI) have gone up for sale at Christie's in New York, in the famed ...
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Made You Look: Makeup Artist Thomas de Kluyver Explores Beauty’s Extremes
For Gucci Beauty’s global makeup artist, cosmetics are more than decoration—they’re a tool for unlocking identities.
An unmissable show at the Met shows romanticism isn’t dead
Sad, beautiful, thwarted, sublime: In quiet evening tones, “Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature” speaks of a world out ...
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has the oddest artistic influences
Nicholas Maxson-Francombe previously did concept art for stage shows – “like a Cirque du Soleil kind of vibe”, he says – and ...
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In Atlanta, Sally Mann’s Affecting Look at the Naïve Boldness of Adolescence
Before visiting this exhibition, my mind was primed for a certain interpretation of it. The recent federal moves to erase bodily autonomy from anyone other than a cis white man, plus the controversial ...
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Baltimore commemorates native artist Tom Miller with new exhibit, part of weeklong celebration
Many have seen Miller's giant murals on buildings on North Avenue and Harford Road. There are events planned over the week at ...
Are Birkenstocks a Work of Art? A German Court Says No.
On Thursday, the federal court of justice in Karlsruhe, Germany, ruled that Birkenstocks were not “copyrighted works of ...
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Inside the country's oldest still-operating museum
Lynda Roscoe Hartigan directs the Peabody Essex Museum, where she first began working two decades ago. Despite helming a museum that dates to 1799, Hartigan is forward-thinking about the role museums ...