Mr. Colescott’s garishly powerful canvases lampooned racial and sexual stereotypes with rakish imagery, lurid colors and tangible glee.
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Robert Colescott, Painter Who Toyed With Race and Sex, Dies at 83
The first phase of the High Line is one of the most thoughtful, sensitively designed public spaces built in New York in years.
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Architecture Review: On High, a Fresh Outlook
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg cut a red ribbon on Monday morning to signify that the first phase of the High Line is finished.
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Renovated High Line Now Open for Strolling
The recent news that the developer Forest City Ratner had scrapped Frank Gehry’s design for a Nets arena is not just a blow to the art of architecture.
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Architecture: Battle Between Budget and Beauty, Which Budget Won
A blockbuster retrospective at the Venice Biennale is only the second major survey of John Wesley’s bright, funny, relentlessly flat and often unsettlingly erotic work.
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Pop and Rococo Meet and Greet
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ArtsBeat: First Phase of High Line Is Ready for Strolling
There were fewer flashy parties, fewer celebrity sightings and an absence of hit-you-over-the-head installations at the Venice Biennale.
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A More Serene Biennale
Thomas Holloway’s collection at the Yale Center for British Art offers paintings of virtue intended to be an educational tool for young women.
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Art Review | Connecticut: A Glimpse of Victorian England, With Lessons in Morality
Thomas Holloway’s collection at the Yale Center for British Art offers paintings of virtue intended to be an educational tool for young women.
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Art Review | Connecticut: A Glimpse of Victorian England, With Lessons in Morality
A former payroll manager for the Brooklyn Museum stole more than $620,000 from the institution, according to court papers made public on Thursday.
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Arts, Briefly: Former Brooklyn Museum Employee Arrested
Imagine being invited to Castle Howard, the treasure-filled English country house shown in the film and television series “Brideshead Revisited,” to pick out anything you liked.
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Antiques: Castle Objects That Say: ‘Wouldn’t You Like One?’
The exhibition links two galleries at opposite ends of the Frick’s courtyard: the Oval Room and the Cabinet Room.
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Art Review | ‘Portraits, Pastels, Prints’: Return Appearance by the Gilded Era’s A-Listers
The exhibition links two galleries at opposite ends of the Frick’s courtyard: the Oval Room and the Cabinet Room.
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Art Review | ‘Portraits, Pastels, Prints’: Return Appearance by the Gilded Era’s A-Listers
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