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The life story of Francesca Alexander, the American artist who was in tune with Italy, is told in new book – The Art Newspaper
Jacqueline Marie Musacchio, the professor of art at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, has succeeded in bringing the Florence-based American artist Francesca…
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Publication reveals there was more to photographer Weegee than his grim crime scene images – The Art Newspaper
On the cover of Weegee: Society of the Spectacle are two self-portraits of this enigmatic, larger-than-life photographer. In the first,…
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April Book Bag: from a new angle on Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel to the re-issuing of bell hooks’s art essays – The Art Newspaper
Michelangelo: The Genesis of the Sistine, Adriano Marinazzo, Muscarelle Museum of Art, 243pp, $49 (hb) Is there anything left to…
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The trials and tribulations of putting together Lucian Freud’s catalogue raisonné – The Art Newspaper
The British artist Lucian Freud (1922-2011) was famously private—he communicated mostly by phone but rarely gave out his number, which…
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New book looks at the shaping of Modern art in the Middle East beyond politics and war – The Art Newspaper
The Arab art specialist Saeb Eigner’s ambitious and timely overview of Middle Eastern art from 1900 to today features more…
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An expert’s guide to Ruth Asawa: five must-read books on the Japanese American artist – The Art Newspaper
• Click here for more reading lists on the world’s greatest artists The first major posthumous survey of the Japanese…
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Japan is opening its eyes to women photographers—and to the female gaze – The Art Newspaper
Japan’s “lost decade” was a time of discovery for the nation’s female photographers. Beyond the decoupling from commercial art that…
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On a San Francisco roof, an artist’s work is birthed by the night sky – The Art Newspaper
On a recent night in San Francisco, amid the phosphorescent glow of Fisherman’s Wharf and the Bay Bridge, the artist…
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