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Were You Looking for Abstract Modern Art?
Or was that Modern Abstract Art? Or was it something else entirely? Let me explain my confusion.
You see, "Modern Abstract Art" is sort of...
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So Who Owns David, Anyway?
I just read an interesting article in The Guardian about a recent dispute over ownership of Michelangelo's David. The statue, initially commissioned by the Office of Works of the Duomo (in Florence), was completed by...
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Playing Degas, Probing Picasso
Earlier this summer, Beth Gersh-Nesic, Contributing Writer for Modern Art, spent a very happy Study Day at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute...
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Abstract Expressionist New York
Abstract Expressionist New York will open on October 3, 2010 at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and I can't wait. Seriously, unless...
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Wordless Wednesday - Gertrude Stein
© 2010 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
We're catching Picasso here between his Rose Period and the advent of...
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London's Leonardo Restored from Maize to Blue
I invite you to look at the image above and compare it to this view of The Virgin of the Rocks. Notice anything different? Say, a touch of RBG color adjustment?
You can trust...
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Berthe Morisot
As one of countless millions of other multi-tasking women, I've been thinking about Berthe Morisot a lot lately. She wanted to be an artist and worked hard at it. Unfortunately, she did so during an era...
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Taking of Christ Taken Back
Good news, everyone! Reuters (and a dozen other sources) is reporting that German and Ukrainian police have recovered The Taking of Christ which was, itself, taken from the Museum of Western and Eastern Art in Odessa, Ukraine nearly two...
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Impressionism 101
Those of you who subscribe to the weekly About.com Art History newsletter (and if you don't, why not?) are already aware that "school's out" equals "housecleaning" on an educational website. Time to fling open all of the windows, launder...
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Tell Us About Your Art History Blog
There are eight million stories in the Naked City sphere of art history and, increasingly, more writers blogging about them. This is wonderful news for art history students, professionals and enthusiasts everywhere because all of these stories deserve to be told. However, it's difficult ... nay, impossible ... to...
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