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    Frank Stella, Towering Artist and Master of Reinvention, Dies at 87

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    Faith Ringgold Perfectly Captured the Pitch of America’s Madness

    Ringgold’s landmark career was long ignored by the art establishment. But she kept going, mixing the...

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    Israeli Artist Shuts Biennale Show, Urging Cease-Fire and Hostage Release

    Ruth Patir, Israel’s representative at the Venice Biennale, says she won’t open her show in the...

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    As Graffiti Moves From Eyesore to Amenity, Landlords Try to Cash In

    Brands, developers and even city officials are embracing the global appeal of street art, but the...

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    Opinion | An Idyll on the Shores of a Toxic Lake

    The town of Bombay Beach, Calif., offers its residents a tight-knit community in the midst of...

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    Laurent de Brunhoff, Artist Who Made Babar Famous, Dies at 98

    After his father, who created the character, died, he continued the series of books about a...

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    Andrew Crispo, Disgraced Manhattan Gallery Owner, Dies at 78

    His fall from the pinnacle of the New York art world involved murder, torture, tax evasion,...

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    Empty Frames and Other Oddities from the Unsolved Gardner Museum Heist

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  • Josette Molland, Who Told of Life in Nazi Camps Through Art, Dies at 100

    She endured horrors as a captured member of the French Resistance, and to ensure that her...

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    Opinion | When Artists Can’t Go Home, All That’s Left Is Their Art

    Chaim Soutine’s identity was never integral to his art, even as a Jew whose death Nazis caused....

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    Opinion | Mighty Shiva Was Never Meant to Live in Manhattan

    After decades of plunder, museums are coming in for a reckoning. They should be thrilled.

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    Rubin Museum, Haven for Asian Art, to Close After 20 Years

    It is the first major art museum in New York to close within recent memory. The...

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    National Gallery of Art Receives Major Gift of Joseph Cornell Boxes

    Collectors give the museum 27 box constructions and collages by the homebody artist who rarely left...

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    The Crochet Coral Reef Keeps Spawning, Hyperbolically

    The long-running project, sometimes described as the environmental version of the AIDS quilt, thrives on convoluted...

  • Indiana University Cancels Major Exhibition of Palestinian Artist

    Samia Halaby, an 87-year-old artist, has been outspoken in her support of Palestinians during the Israel-Gaza...