Art & Design

Shirin Neshat is an Iranian-born visual artist who has made her home country's turbulent history the subject of high art. The Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., is hosting a retrospective of her work. Above, Neshat's 1999 Rapture Series.

Artist Shirin Neshat Captures Iran's Sharp Contrasts In Black And White

11:22pm May 18, 2015

by Neda Ulaby

The Iranian-born visual artist has made her home country's turbulent history the subject of high art. The Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., is hosting a retrospective of her work.

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David "Nanook" Cogdill, an American street artist, came to Liberia to create a welcoming mural for a school that had been damaged by riots during the Ebola outbreak.

Baltimore Artist Helps Turn Liberian School Into A Mural Masterpiece

6:50pm May 15, 2015

by Ingrid Gercama

The building was damaged during the Ebola outbreak. How do you welcome kids back? That's the challenge that a team of street artists faced.

Henri Matisse's Seated Woman was found in an apartment in Munich.

Looted By The Nazis, Matisse's 'Seated Woman' Finally Finds Her Way Home

1:19pm May 15, 2015

by Elizabeth Blair

The painting belonged to renowned art dealer Paul Rosenberg, who fled the Nazis in 1940. The story of its recovery reads like a historical crime novel.

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1921 Matisse, 'Seated Woman,' To Be Reunited With Rosenberg Heirs

11:44am May 15, 2015

by Elizabeth Blair

In Germany, a Matisse painting is being returned to Paul Rosenberg's family. It was one of more than 400 paintings stolen by the Nazis from the "first family" of art in Paris in the '20s and '30s.

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The new building's window-lined hallways are in stark contrast to the brutalist design of the Whitney's former home.

Arts

Whitney Museum's New Building Opens Doors (And Walls) To Outside World

5:18pm May 13, 2015

by Joel Rose

For decades, the museum was housed in a concrete fortress with few windows. Its new home offers striking views of the Manhattan skyline, but critics say the design draws attention away from the art.

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United States Steel Mon Valley Works Edgar Thomson Plant, 2013, from The Notion of Family (Aperture, 2014).

A Rust Belt Story Retold, Through Portraits Of The Women Who Lived It

3:18pm May 13, 2015

by Shereen Marisol Meraji

LaToya Ruby Frazier's photography tells the story of the black community living in the shadow of Andrew Carnegie's first steel mill through portraits of her grandmother, her mother and herself.

De Kooning made dozens of drawings, sketches and paintings of John F. Kennedy in 1963.

Arts

For Artist Elaine De Kooning, Painting Was A Verb, Not A Noun

1:59pm May 13, 2015

by Susan Stamberg

One of de Kooning's friends once asked her what it was like to work in the shadow of her husband, Willem de Kooning. She replied: "I don't paint in his shadow, I paint in his light.'"

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Photographer Sally Mann drives with her greyhound, Honey, in the early 2000s.

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Making Art Out Of Bodies: Sally Mann Reflects On Life And Photography

4:30pm May 12, 2015

Mann has published pictures that show her young children naked, her husband's muscular dystrophy and dead bodies decomposing. She reflects on her life and work in a new memoir called Hold Still.

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Demonstrators snarl traffic as they try to block an entrance to the Holland Tunnel during a solidarity protest Wednesday in New York City.

Photos: Baltimore Quiet For 2nd Night; New York, Denver Protests Noisier

4:28am May 12, 2015

by Christopher Dean Hopkins

Police arrested about 100 demonstrators in Manhattan after crowds tried to block a major tunnel, and pepper spray was deployed in Colorado. In Baltimore, the curfew was honored.

Arts

Documentary Spotlights Perfectly Accessorized Iris Apfel

10:45am May 11, 2015

by Ina Jaffe

Renowned documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles' last film, Iris, is a portrait of 93-year-old style icon and self-described "geriatric starlet" Iris Apfel.

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