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The Primacy of Color

The Impressionist officer’s engrossment receives radically unlike treatments in two past exhibits, their warm websites, and their insightful, provoking catalogues: Colour as Region: Indweller Trade, 1950-1975, new at the Smithsonian, and MoMA’s Timbre Chart: Reinventing Gloss, 1950 to Today. Both … Continue reading

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Questions Over Fixing Torn Picasso

Since 1952 “The Actor,” a rare Rose Period Picasso, has hung prominently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, along with other examples of early paintings by this Spanish master. But on Monday it could be found in a new, temporary … Continue reading

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