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Real Masterpieces, Reel Risk: Inside Wes Anderson's “The Phoenician Scheme”

by Justin Muñoz

As the crate opened on Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Enfant assis en robe bleue the bedroom set seemed to inhale. Varnish caught the key light and the crew instinctively lowered their voices. Knowing that Greta…

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• Exhibitions

Freud’s 1938 Debut Painting Returns in Peggy Guggenheim Exhibition

In a compelling return to the origins of British modernism, the first painting Lucian Freud ever exhibited will be one of the highlights in a major exhibition celebrating the legacy of Peggy Guggenheim.…

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Damien Hirst’s Two-Century Legacy Plan Could Rewrite the Art Market

Damien Hirst has unveiled a blueprint that will let his studio release new works for two hundred years after his death, positioning his brand more like a fashion house than a traditional artist estate.…

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• Art History

When Pop Art Took a Bullet: The 1968 Shooting of Andy Warhol

On the afternoon of June 3rd 1968 radical writer Valerie Solanas marched into Andy Warhol’s new Union Square studio carrying two handguns and a folder full of grudges. Within minutes three shots tore through…

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• Art History

The Klimt Portrait That Vanished for a Century

Imagine uncovering an attic canvas and finding a glimmering Gustav Klimt beneath the dust, one that scholars believed lost for nearly one hundred years. That real-life art-world shock arrived in early…

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Marlene Dumas Pairs Contemporary Figuration with Ancient Cycladic Art in Athens

by Raquel Cohen

The Museum of Cycladic Art stages a rare encounter between Marlene Dumas’s psychologically charged paintings and the minimalist beauty of Cycladic antiquities. Spanning three decades of work, Cycladic…

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