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Category: Art
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Richard Ekstract, Magazine Publisher With Link to Warhol, Dies at 92
He was promoting a new trade journal, Tape Recording, when he lent a video recorder to Andy Warhol, who used it to make a classic work with Edie Sedgwick.
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Why Is Pacsun Releasing Clothes With the Met?
The unlikely coupling of art museum and mall brand has yielded three apparel collections, with a fourth releasing this month.
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Exploring Fukuoka, Japan’s ‘Gateway to Asia’
Fukuoka, known for its outdoor food stalls, is a popular destination for Japanese tourists. Now it’s starting to draw more international travelers, too.
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How to Display Kids’ Artwork and Photos at Home
There’s more than one way to show them off stylishly in your home. Here’s how the pros do it.
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Want to Buy This Painting? First, You’ll Have to Audition.
A younger, more diverse generation of artists are demanding a greater say in which collectors end up with their work.
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How to Make the Most of Your Trip to Amsterdam
It’s all fun and games until you’re elbowing your way through hordes of tourists at Dam Square. But a little quiet is far from impossible in the Dutch capital.
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An Artist Grappling With Mexico’s Cultural Legacy
In her first solo museum exhibition, the painter Lucía Vidales subverts a muralist’s canonical work.
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Jamie Reid, 76, Dies; His Anarchic Graphics Helped Define the Sex Pistols
He created some of the most controversial — and celebrated — artwork of the punk era, which outraged polite British society almost as much as the band’s music did.
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In Paris, an Apartment With a Rebellious Streak
The architect Maxime Bousquet has reimagined a portion of a grand 17th-century building as a fittingly irreverent home for a young gallerist.
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Frank Bowling’s Geographies
The restless innovation of the influential painter is on display in a retrospective in California.
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Martha Rosler Wants to Know Why We Still Aren’t Outraged
Since the 1960s, the artist has channeled her wit and her conscience into works that face American injustice head-on.