The Radical Artistic Vision of Manet’s Jeanne (Spring)
This beautiful painting contains the germ of modern art as we know it.
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Garry Winogrand’s Scenes of Ebulliance, and Unease
A retrospective at the Met captures America’s postwar ”out-of-control-ness.”
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Transformed by Minor White
“Two of Minor White’s images helped me to survive.”
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Who Was James Ensor?
Belgium’s most eccentric, scandalous, and shocking painter is the focus of an exhibition at the Getty Center this summer.
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What Ansel Adams Taught Me
The photographer was nothing like this young artist imagined.
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Lifted Cellulose Nitrate: Conserving an Early Robert Mapplethorpe Object
A conservator’s view of a complex and unusual object by Robert Mapplethorpe.
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The Value of Record Keeping: Frederick Hammersley’s Painting Books
The artist’s remarkably detailed records offer a huge boon to conservation science.
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Beatrice Monti della Corte and the Americans
The glamorous owner of the Galleria dell’Ariete in Milan was key to the careers of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, among many others.
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Getty Voices: The Forgotten Surrealist
"A feeling of surprise, even disbelief, that someone so unique could have remained unknown to us for so long."
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The “Scandalous Life” of César Moro
Artist and poet Moro was a central figure in the early 20th-century avant-garde.
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Vitaly Komar: Exploring the Lines Between Us
Komar and Melamid created canvases to represent the most wanted (and unwanted) visual imagery for different countries. The results were telling, and hilarious.
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The Sky Gets a Chance—Gordon Matta-Clark’s Office Baroque
A glimpse inside the process of Matta-Clark’s cutouts.
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