Fine Art

Mothers of Gynecology honored in Black maternal health conference in Montgomery

4:41pm March 28, 2022

by Cristela Guerra

Artist Michelle Browder's sculpture of enslaved women who were experimented on by "father of gynecology" Dr. Sims was highlighted in a conference on Black women and maternal health in Montgomery, Ala.

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Economy

A Pa. museum is paying Black residents back on their overtaxed and undervalued homes

8:03am March 26, 2022

by Bill O'Driscoll

A Pittsburgh artist has collaborated with a local museum to address the inequities Black homeowners experience when they are overtaxed by city officials.

Rapper Andrew Hean, whose family owned a donut shop in California, is pictured in a silkscreen print on a donut box by artist Phung Huynh.

Pink donut boxes are canvas for artist portraying kids of Cambodian-American refugees

5:00am March 22, 2022

by Neda Ulaby

Artist Phung Huynh incorporates pink donut boxes into her portraits of young Cambodian-Americans who grew up in their family donut stores in Southern California.

Installation view of Joseph Wright of Derby's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, in "Science and the Sublime: A Masterpiece by Joseph Wright of Derby."

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A mad scientist and his bird in a bubble: The story behind a peculiar painting

6:09am March 15, 2022

by Susan Stamberg

The Los Angeles-area Huntington Museum and London's National Gallery are swapping two paintings: Thomas Gainsborough's Blue Boy for Joseph Wright of Derby's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump.

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Kandinsky painting that was auctioned during WWII is returned to Jewish heirs

6:44am March 01, 2022

by Vanessa Romo

The 1909 painting was just one of a treasured art collection inherited by Robert Lewenstein and his wife Irma Klein, But the pair were forced to sell it in October 1940 as they fled the Nazis.

Composer, conductor and multi-instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey leads a rehearsal of his Monochromatic Light (Afterlife) at the Rothko Chapel in Houston on Feb. 18.

At the Rothko Chapel, Tyshawn Sorey explores sound — and silence

4:15pm February 24, 2022

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

Invited to write a new work for Houston's Rothko Chapel, the composer and multi-instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey created a work that is both intimate and vast, like those Mark Rothko paintings.

Hale Woodruff. Normandy Landscape. 1928. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Edward Joseph Gallagher III Memorial Fund, BMA 2002.279

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Meet the security guards moonlighting as curators at the Baltimore Museum of Art

3:50pm February 23, 2022

by Susan Stamberg

The museum invited their security officers to curate an exhibition of their own. The result is a show filled with art from the sixth to the 21st century.

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Banners and signs are hung on a fence at Lafayette Square near the White House, during ongoing protests against police brutality and racism in June 2020. The Library of Congress has digitized some of the pieces of artwork, signs and photographs once displ

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Artwork from the Black Lives Matter memorial has a new home: the Library of Congress

7:18am February 12, 2022

by Jonathan Franklin

The artwork that once served as a memorial to the movement is being displayed in a new online exhibit at the Library of Congress. So far, 33 pieces are posted.

A drawing purchased at a yard sale for $30 may be worth $10 million

6:34am February 07, 2022

The drawing has been identified as a previously unknown work by German Renaissance artist Albrecht Durer. It took three years to confirm its authenticity, which dates back to the 16th century.

Lou Stovall's Glazing, 1972. screenprint, 26 x 40 in

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How Lou Stovall took silkscreen-printing from grocery stores to gallery walls

3:20pm February 05, 2022

by Susan Stamberg

The famed silkscreen printer, whose work is on display at the Kreeger Museum's exhibition "Lou Stovall: On Inventions and Color," pioneered an artform while building community in Washington, D.C.