Chicago Museum Director Under Investigation After Airplane Incident
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Chicago Museum Director Under Investigation After Airplane Incident

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines James Rondeau, the president and director of the Art Institute of Chicago, has taken a voluntary leave from the museum after an incident on board a flight to Germany last month. During the incident, which occurred on April 18 and was first reported…

How Hauser & Wirth Took Over N.Y.C.’s Museums This Spring
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How Hauser & Wirth Took Over N.Y.C.’s Museums This Spring

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Earlier this month the Whitney Museum of American Art celebrated the opening of an exhibition by the painter Amy Sherald — Michelle Obama’s official portraitist — with a champagne toast over lush arrangements of daffodils and yellow ranunculus. At the Museum of Modern…

How Art Stars Are Made
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How Art Stars Are Made

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Museums provide the first draft of art history. They decide which artists get to share wall space with masters like Michelangelo, Rembrandt and Picasso. Choosing which artists to exhibit requires museums to consider ultrasubjective questions about, say, the artistic merit of a painting…

For Idyllic Village, Van Gogh’s Roots Pose a Knotty Problem
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For Idyllic Village, Van Gogh’s Roots Pose a Knotty Problem

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Auvers-sur-Oise, a village near Paris famed as an artist’s paradise, is also where Vincent Van Gogh spent his final days and it has long drawn tourists to walk in the tortured painter’s last footsteps. But ever since art experts identified his final work…

Opinion | Tariffs Destroy What Makes America Great
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Opinion | Tariffs Destroy What Makes America Great

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines I’ll let others describe the economic carnage President Trump’s tariffs have already begun to wreak. I want to describe the damage they will do to the American psyche and the American soul. Trump is building walls. His trade policies obstruct not only the…

Caravaggio, Baroque’s Bad Boy, Gets a Blockbuster Show in Rome
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Caravaggio, Baroque’s Bad Boy, Gets a Blockbuster Show in Rome

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Some 430 years after the Lombard artist Michelangelo Merisi, better known as Caravaggio, swept into Rome to enchant, and land, well-placed patrons with his bold yet intimate artistry, Caravaggio is again grabbing the spotlight, with a blockbuster exhibition at the National Gallery of…

Opinion | Kendrick Lamar’s Halftime Show Was Political Art, if You Knew Where to Look
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Opinion | Kendrick Lamar’s Halftime Show Was Political Art, if You Knew Where to Look

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines More viewers tuned into watch Kendrick Lamar — 133.5 million people — than any other Super Bowl halftime show. And they witnessed a rousing concert by a 22-time Grammy-winning (as well as one Pulitzer-winning) artist. But there was much more on display, if…

David Edward Byrd, Whose Posters Captured Rock’s Energy, Dies at 83
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David Edward Byrd, Whose Posters Captured Rock’s Energy, Dies at 83

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines David Edward Byrd, who captured the swirl and energy of the 1960s and early ’70s by conjuring pinwheels of color with indelible posters for concerts by Jimi Hendrix, the Who and the Rolling Stones as well as for hit stage musicals like “Follies”…