‘Paint Me a Road Out of Here’: Faith Ringgold’s Gift to Prisoners
In 1971, the artist Faith Ringgold received a grant to make a painting for a public institution in New York City. She decided to ask the prisoners in the Women’s House of Detention on Rikers Island ...
Bees and brilliant blooms brighten Portage Park viaduct
Some Chicago murals “are political, and some are purely beautiful, and most are somewhere in between," artist Cyd Smillie ...
Why the best modern artists returned to nakedness to find the truth
Twentieth-Century Nudes from Tate,” an exhibition including major modern artists, reveals the connection between our naked ...
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Sixty-Four Stunning Artworks by Famed ‘Scream’ Painter Edvard Munch Are Heading to Harvard
The extensive collection shows how the Norwegian painter tweaked his techniques and reworked his aesthetic sensibilities over ...
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History illustrated: The art of the Winter Carnival poster
In “Winter Carnival: A Century of Dartmouth Posters,” author and design historian Steven Heller commented that the artistic ...
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Van Gogh or no? Painting found at Minnesota garage sale stirs controversy about authenticity
A New York-based art research firm believes a painting purchased from a garage sale in Minnetonka for $50 is by the famous ...
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MIT Unveils New Sculpture by Sanford Biggers
Sanford Biggers, Madrigal, 2024. Commissioned with MIT Percent-for-Art funds and a generous gift from Robert Sanders ('64) & ...