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James Harithas, Maverick Museum Director and Founder, Dies at 90

Whether directing august art museums or scrappy upstarts of his own, he championed art-world outsiders and socially conscious and political…

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Art Collector Who Financed Hezbollah Evaded Sanctions, Prosecutors Say

The Lebanese businessman Nazem Ahmad has owned Picassos and Warhols. He and eight others were charged with violating sanctions by…

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Vivan Sundaram, 79, Dies; a Pivotal, and Political, Figure in Indian Art

Veering from European-inspired abstraction, he embraced multimedia forms to reflect the realities of a country torn by ethnic and religious…

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10 Artists on Picasso’s Enduring, Confounding Influence

Beyond simple hero and villain stories, Picasso is a fact of life 50 years after his death. We all swim…

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6 Picasso Shows to See This Year

Fifty years after his death, the Cubist painter will be featured in art exhibitions in New York, Paris and Madrid.

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What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in April

Want to see new art in the city? Check out Che Lovelace and Tauba Auerbach in Chelsea and Shellyne Rodriguez’s…

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Ann Wilson, Last Survivor of an Influential Art Scene, Dies at 91

Working from a gritty loft in Lower Manhattan in the late 1950s, she made abstract paintings on quilts that brought…

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The F.B.I. Has an Art Crime Team. And These Days, It’s Busy.

A raid of the Orlando Museum of Art, in which 25 works attributed to Jean-Michel Basquiat were seized, has placed…

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An Artist Returns After a ‘Long Wilderness’

Claudette Johnson emerged in Thatcher-era England as a prominent Black feminist, only to fall into obscurity. Now, she’s having her…

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Desert X Finds Roots in the Region

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — Desert X, a young and scrappy biennial, has been prone to last-minute cancellations of major art…

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