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Abstract artist keeps students in frame from his Ethiopian exile
In a small studio overlooking a garden in the Kirkos neighbourhood of Addis Ababa, the artist and academic Abdelrahman ...
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Sotheby's to Sell Abstract, Expressionist, and Late-19th Century Masterpieces from the Weinberg Collection in May
The house said the "visionary" Weinbergs "assembled one of Europe's most distinguished collections over the past 50 years." ...
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John Olsen called this artist’s Archibald win the worst decision he’d seen. But it didn’t stop him
Art Gallery of NSW, Mim Stirling Within minutes of Mitch Cairns winning the Archibald Prize in 2017, with an abstract portrait of his wife and fellow artist Agatha Gothe-Snape, the grandfather of ...
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A Hidden Portrait Was Just Found Under This Miró Painting—And It’s Deeply Personal
Between 1925 and 1927, the Catalan native took a portrait of ... as an attack on art he perceived as empty and superficial, part of his instinct to “assassinate painting,” as he once put ...
Max Kozloff, Art Critic Who Became an Artist Himself, Dies at 91
He wrote extensively about the New York art scene in the 1960s and ’70s, then shifted to become a prominent street ...
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This Dusty Painting Turned Out to Be Gustav Klimt’s Long-Lost Portrait of an African Prince
Experts think the renowned Austrian Symbolist painted the artwork in 1897. An art gallery in Vienna has priced it at $16 million ...