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04/23/2020

Portrait by an Artist

Sitting still for the sake of art

by John Skoyles

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07/11/2019

Writing with a Brush

Guy de Maupassant’s Like Death, a coloristic study of love.

by Colin Fleming

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04/29/2019

Happy Accidents

What Bob Ross can teach us about the world

by Stephanie Haun

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03/08/2018

Mother/Painter

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun and her daughter

by Stephen Akey

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01/10/2018

Masters and Madonnas

Seven works, three artists, one gallery

by Charles Molesworth

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01/08/2018

Magritte’s 3.5-Room Apartment

“What’s our excuse?”

by Marian Calabro

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01/04/2018

The Dark Lady Ryan

Joan Roberta Ryan’s debut collection is diverse and exquisite.

by Lynn Levin

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10/05/2017

Beaux Monde

The profound originality of Cecilia Beaux’s relationship paintings

by Paula Marantz Cohen

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03/02/2017

The Art of John Hultberg

Intoxicated by the Great Creature’s Respiration

by Martin Ries

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08/09/2016

Encyclopedia Blue

A history of what may be the world’s most beloved color

by Bernd Brunner

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