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‘A Revolution on Canvas’ Review: The Personal, the Political and the Painting

A documentary about lost artwork intimately involves one of its directors.

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Guy Wildenstein, Art Family Patriarch, Found Guilty in Tax Trial

Mr. Wildenstein hid a prized art collection and other assets from French authorities to avoid paying millions in inheritance taxes,…

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San Francisco Art Institute Headquarters Sold to Group Led by Laurene Powell Jobs

The sale includes a 1931 Diego Rivera mural, which has been valued at $50 million.

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Inspired by a Real Mystery, This Novel Skewers the Art World

In “Anita de Monte Laughs Last,” by Xochitl Gonzalez, two Latina women working a decade apart fight to break out…

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When an Artist Dies, Who Owns Her Story?

The Cuban artist Ana Mendieta fell from a window of her 34th-floor apartment in 1985. Her family members have been…

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Günter Brus, Artist Who Shocked Postwar Austria, Dies at 85

A founder of a transgressive 1960s movement known as Viennese Actionism, he used his body as a canvas and blood…

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How Contemporary Artists Are Taking Papier-Mâché Out of the Classroom

A new wave of self-taught craftspeople are using the medium to make playful, thought-provoking works.

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Land Art Comes Indoors as Dia Highlights Meg Webster

Nine sculptures exhibited at Dia Beacon from soil, beeswax, moss and other outdoor elements, date from Webster’s breakout period of…

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Frieze Los Angeles Opens Amid Attention to Asian Artists

Spurred by population growth and new patron support, artists from China, Japan, South Korea and the Philippines are getting more…

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Surrealism Is 100. The World’s Still Surreal.

This is not an article. It’s a fish in the shape of a piano, floating in a clear blue sky,…

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