Evil Into Art

Evil Into Art

Can something horrible be made beautiful? It’s a question that came to mind after I recently visited The Legacy Museum, a project of the Equal Justice Initiative.

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Kid Sister

Kid Sister

Ida Ten Eyck O’Keeffe (1889-1961) is currently having a moment, scoring a huge success at Christie’s last week. Learn about Georgia O’Keeffe’s kid sister.

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Going Ape

Going Ape

Artists protesting the exclusion of women at the MoMA in 1985 formed a protest group: the Guerilla Girls, wearing gorilla masks at public protests.

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Buckskin Ceiling

Buckskin Ceiling

After centuries of art markets dominated by white men, under-represented artists, specifically Native American art, is now being aquired with a vengeance.

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Old Timer

Old Timer

Selling antiques is a tricky and ever-changing affair. What, today, constitutes an antique? “Antique” is in the eye of the beholder as times change.

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Rosemary

Rosemary

Rosemary Mayer, who died in 2014, is having quite the posthumous career. In the past few years, her work has been shown in New York, Germany, and England.

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Hope Springs Eternal

Hope Springs Eternal

Two stories about art captured the general attention this past month. The first embodied every thrift store visitor’s dream, something that has kept the Antiques Roadshow franchise in business since 1977. It invites visions of “That could happen to me!”

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In the Pink

In the Pink

As any retailer will tell you, presentation is everything. Painters, as retailers hoping to sell objects they make, have to consider how those objects are best presented. If a painting is to be framed, what kind of frame will present it to best advantage? Not framing a painting is also an aesthetic choice…

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