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03/29/2021

Spot Makers

Italy’s Pre-Impressionist Painters

by John Capista

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09/14/2020

BuÑuel’s Surreal Banality

Sitting down with The Exterminating Angel

by Matt Hanson

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06/27/2019

When Gekko Collects Art

The intersection of art and finance

by Stoyan V. Sgourev

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02/21/2012

A Portrait of the Merchant as an Important Man

Murder of the Renaissance

by James Polchin

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06/06/2011

That’s All, Folk!

Folk art gets a new home

by Stefany Anne Golberg

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04/20/2011

A Room with a Point-of-View

Katrin Sigurdardottir's ''Boiserie.''

by Morgan Meis

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02/22/2011

Floored

The Roman mosaic floor from Lod, Israel.

by Morgan Meis

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01/13/2011

Murky Muybridge

On the 19th-century history and 21st-century relevancy of the famed photographer.

by James Polchin

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01/10/2011

Black Beauty

Ad Reinhardt's "Abstract Painting" (1936).

by Morgan Meis

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12/14/2010

The Hopper Question

Why the American painter puzzles.

by Morgan Meis

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