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Category: Art
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Pottery Workshops Fill Up as People Travel to Connect Over Clay
Pottery workshops like those at the Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts in Maine are filling up with people who want to connect with others instead of screens.
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The Mystery of the Disappearing van Gogh
After a painting by the Dutch artist sold at auction, a movie producer claimed to be the owner. It later vanished from sight, with a trail leading to Caribbean tax havens and a jailed Chinese billionaire.
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For Freeman Vines, Guitar Making Is a Way of Life
“To somebody else, it’s just some wood glued together,” Freeman Vines, 80, said. “To me, it’s something else.”
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A Sculptor’s Take on Jewelry
The French contemporary artist Daniel Hourdé has been making rings and cuff links out of gems from Brazil.
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‘White Balls on Walls’ Review: Time With the Gatekeepers
The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam becomes a somewhat flimsy case study for fine-art diversity and inclusion conversations in this documentary.
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Rolf Harris, Disgraced British Entertainer, Dies at 93
His career as a musician and a painter over six decades ended abruptly when he was convicted of sexually abusing teenage girls.
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A Queer Punk Vaudevillian’s Surreal Take on ‘Titanic’
Jibz Cameron, who performs as Dynasty Handbag, is bringing a new multimedia performance to Brooklyn. It might be more epic than the blockbuster movie.
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Brooklyn’s Batcave Reborn as Gotham’s Art Factory
A philanthropist spent $180 million to transform a relic of Gowanus’s industrial past into Powerhouse Arts, equipped to produce the art of the future.
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The Artists Depicting the Power and Strangeness of Breasts
New generations of women painters are challenging centuries of art history with their nuanced, empathetic renderings of bare-chested bodies.
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Building a $600,000 Home in Washington State
One Washington State couple worked side by side with their contractors, doing much of the heavy lifting: “We wanted to do something extraordinary.”
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Hip-Hop’s Next Takeover: Bisa Butler’s Quilts
Bisa Butler’s new show translates both photographs of Black figures and hip-hop lyrics into intricate textile art.