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The Frick Returns, Richer Than Ever
After a few years away, the Frick Collection reopens with a renovated grandeur that marries Old Master power portraits to a domestic intimacy.
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At the Smithsonian, Donald Trump Takes Aim at History
The urge to police the past is hardly an invention of the Trump Administration. It is the reflexive obsession of autocrats everywhere.
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Britain’s Tate to return Nazi-looted painting to heirs of Jewish art collector
When Samuel Hartveld and his wife Claire Melboom fled Belgium in 1940, they left behind a collection of over 60 paintings that was later looted […]
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Klimt Painting of African Prince Lost for Nearly 100 Years on Show in Austria
A portrait of a stately West African leader painted by famed Austrian artist Gustav Klimt has reappeared in public after being lost before World War […]
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Can animals make art?
In the forests of eastern Australia, satin bowerbirds create structures known as “bowers.” The males gather twigs and place them upright, in two bundles, with […]