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How can gallery-goers who linger before a single picture at a private view help art? A visitor to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York noticed that the exhibition “Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle” was missing several paintings from the master's celebrated series “Struggle: From the
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In the 1930s a scandal broke out in the USA over the depiction of sailors in Paul Cadmus's painting The Fleet's In. It became the subject of official proceedings after the retired Admiral Hugh Rodman found the canvas, with its drunken and carousing sailors, insulting to
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The press office of Malmaison reports that Jacques-Louis David's Bonaparte Crossing the Great St Bernard Pass has at long last returned to the native walls of the residence of Napoleon Bonaparte and Joséphine de Beauharnais from the Brooklyn Museum in New York. Before that, the canvas was
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A prophetic 20 August 2020 in The New Yorker's calendar. I remind you that the calendar was published as far back as 2019
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F. Engels, a sprightly 33, lives in his father's house and is forever cadging money from him. He sneers at the intimate life of the 23-year-old A. Jacobi, who had spent a year in prison over the sham Cologne Communist Trial, been convicted of "insulting
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It seems the Metropolitan Museum's holdings have yielded the answer to how a centaur wears trousers after all, courtesy of a bronze statuette of a centaur and a man from 750 BC. Or is this the wrong sort of centaur?
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Americans pulling the gilded equestrian statue of King George III from its marble pedestal after the reading of the Declaration of Independence on 6 July 1776 in Bowling Green Park, Manhattan. The lead statue was toppled at the second attempt, broke into pieces, and was melted down for bullets. The
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Rosary pendant with a crystal skull in a crown. 16th century. Probably connected with the Mexican cult of the dead. Metropolitan Museum
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The Massachusetts artist Ralph Cahoon (1910-1982), an American of Dutch descent, began as a furniture decorator but fairly soon found his subject: folk motifs featuring mermaids. With the help of one of his clients, the celebrated philanthropist and patron of the arts Joan Whitney, Cahoon introduced his work to
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The woman in the photograph is Mary Ann Bevan, née Webster; in her thirties she came to be called the ugliest woman in the world. A nurse and mother of four, Mary Ann fell ill with acromegaly, which is caused by a disorder of the pituitary gland and shows itself
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The NYTimes has recently published a selection of Bill Cunningham's photographs of New York's Easter parades, which ran in Sunday Styles from 1997 to 2007. A time to which one would truly like to return 🌧💖