Art & Design

Timothy Spall finds beauty in the unlikeliest places as painter J.M.W. Turner.

Arts

'Mr. Turner' Is A Snuffling, Growling Work Of Art

6:58pm December 19, 2014

by Bob Mondello

Critic Bob Mondello says Mike Leigh's earthy new biopic about the famed British painter J.M.W Turner shows viewers the incandescent beauty of the world as Turner himself must have seen it.

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Interactive touch screens at the newly redesigned Cooper Hewitt museum let visitors sort through the catalog and create their own designs.

Arts

Please Touch! Cooper Hewitt Creates A Museum For The Internet Age

2:00pm December 12, 2014

by Laura Sydell

The design museum is housed in a historic building, but it has been remade into one of the country's most technologically advanced museums. Officials hope it attracts younger visitors — and donors.

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Spanish Artist Francisco Goya On Display In Boston: An Extraordinary Exhibit

1:13pm December 08, 2014

by Lloyd Schwartz

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has assembled one of the largest exhibits of Goya's artwork ever seen in the U.S. His paintings, prints and drawings range in technique from exquisitely refined to raw.

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Mourners Decry Police Shooting Of Akai Gurley In Brooklyn

11:51am December 06, 2014

by Stephen Nessen

Akai Gurley was an unarmed black man killed by a police officer last month. Many of those who attended his wake in Brooklyn Friday night see his killing as fitting into a pattern of police conduct.

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An anamorphic installation portrait of Malian actor Sotigui Kouyate by French artist Bernard Pras.

Arts

The Fine Art Of Deception

8:26pm December 05, 2014

by Linton Weeks

When visual tricksters play with perception, things are not always what they seem.

Leza One paints a mural on a wall of Jose de Diego Middle School in Miami's Wynwood neighborhood. It's a project that coincides with the citywide Art Basel fair.

A Miami School Goes From Blank Canvas To Mural-Covered

1:07pm December 05, 2014

by Greg Allen

Jose de Diego Middle School has large expanses of facade that are almost begging for decoration. To raise funds for arts education at the school, artists are helping transform its walls with paint.

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Anselm Kiefer's Sprache der Vogel belongs to one of Miami's best-known private collections.

How Private Collectors Helped Make Miami An Art Destination

10:34am December 04, 2014

by Greg Allen

Every December, tens of thousands of visitors descend on Miami. But they aren't there for the beaches; they're there for Art Basel, a giant art fair that private collectors helped lure to the city.

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Missing Painting Found On Set Of 'Stuart Little'

6:38pm December 02, 2014

A Hungarian art expert was watching the movie on TV when he noticed a painting hanging on a wall. He knew it as a famous, missing work of art that hadn't been seen by the general public since 1928.

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'New Yorker' Cover Shows A Divided St. Louis

6:22pm November 28, 2014

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Bob Staake, illustrator of the controversial cover of The New Yorker, which depicts the St. Louis skyline divided in half by the colors black and white.

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Mae West is said to have worn these super platform shoes both on screen and off.

Arts

Gold-Plated Gowns And 8-inch Pumps: The Stuff That Made Starlets Shimmer

7:16am November 28, 2014

by Susan Stamberg

Actress Mae West was petite, but on screen — thanks to a pair of platform shoes — she looked larger than life. A show in Boston examines the fashion and jewelry of Hollywood's golden age.

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