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A Look Inside the Archive of Emmett Williams, Avant-Garde Poet and Artist
Emmett Williams, in collaboration with Rosanna Chiessi and Francesco Conz, Dance Fragments, from the suite Dance Fragments, 1980, silkscreen print, Verona: Edizioni Francesco Conz and Reggio Emilia: Pari&Dispari, edition 48/60  © The Estate of Emmett Williams, Courtesy Archivio Conz, Berlin, Courtesy Rosanna Chiessi / Pari&Dispari

A Look Inside the Archive of Emmett Williams, Avant-Garde Poet and Artist

The friendship, humor, and work of the artist and poet.

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Developing an “Inner Feeling” for Materials with Paper Modeling at the Bauhaus
Diagram of the Bauhaus curriculum (adapted, right), 1922, Walter Gropius. Lithograph. 20.2 x 29.3 cm. From Walter Gropius, Satzungen Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar (Statutes of the State Bauhaus in Weimar), July 1922. Bauhaus Typography Collection, 1919–1937. The Getty Research Institute, 850513. © 2019 Artists Rights Society (ARS) / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn]

Developing an “Inner Feeling” for Materials with Paper Modeling at the Bauhaus

Paper as creative material at the Bauhaus.

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Getty and University of Arizona Partner to Conserve Long-Lost Willem de Kooning Painting
University of Arizona staff at the inspection and authentication of the recovered de Kooning painting. Woman-Ochre, 1954–55, Willem de Kooning. Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 in. Artwork © 2019 The Willem de Kooning Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Bob Demers/UANews

Getty and University of Arizona Partner to Conserve Long-Lost Willem de Kooning Painting

Over thirty years after it was stolen from the University of Arizona, a de Kooning will be conserved at the Getty.

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