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”…

Three Men Convicted of Playing a Role in Ring That Preyed on U.S. Museums
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Three Men Convicted of Playing a Role in Ring That Preyed on U.S. Museums

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines For two decades, a crew from Lackawanna County in Pennsylvania traveled to a dozen small museums across the country, where its ringleader smashed through security systems to strip them of art and precious memorabilia. Their loot included treasured heirlooms from America’s past, including…

Mona Lisa Will Move to Her Own Room at the Louvre
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Mona Lisa Will Move to Her Own Room at the Louvre

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Louvre Museum in Paris will move the Mona Lisa to a newly created exhibition space, President Emmanuel Macron of France announced on Tuesday as he unveiled sweeping plans to renovate the world’s biggest and most visited museum. Speaking in front of La…

Bringing Anne Frank’s Secret Annex to New York, and the World
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Bringing Anne Frank’s Secret Annex to New York, and the World

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The children seem like typical kindergartners: Some beam at the camera; some glance coyly aside; others appear lost in reverie. One slim, dark-haired girl in a pale dress looks precociously serious. She is Anne Frank, and this classroom photograph, taken at a Montessori…

David Lynch Dead: ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Mulholland Drive’ Director Was 78
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David Lynch Dead: ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Mulholland Drive’ Director Was 78

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines David Lynch, a painter turned avant-garde filmmaker whose fame, influence and distinctively skewed worldview extended far beyond the movie screen to encompass TV, records, books, nightclubs, a line of organic coffee and his Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace, has died. He…