Fine Art

This 1970 photograph, Untitled (Model Who Embraced Natural Hairstyles at AJASS Photoshoot) is just one of the works in the Dean Collection on display at the Brooklyn Museum

Arts

Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz want you to see the 'Giants' of art in their collection

5:00am February 10, 2024

by Jennifer Vanasco

Singer-songwriter Alicia Keys and her husband, rapper/producer Kasseem Dean are also art collectors. A new exhibition highlights the contemporary Black artists who've caught their attention.

Why the American Museum of Natural History is closing some Native American exhibits

7:41am January 31, 2024

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Sean Decatur, president of the American Museum of Natural History, about why some Native American exhibits are closing under a law requiring consent from Native tribes.

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Mark Rothko, Untitled, 1958, oil on watercolor paper mounted on hardboard.

Arts

Paintings on paper reveal another side of Rothko

11:50am January 12, 2024

by Olivia Hampton

The National Gallery of Art is showing more than 100 of Mark Rothko's paintings on paper, many on view for the first time, in a new glimpse of the artist best known for huge paintings on canvas.

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Arts

Met museum is returning looted ancient art to Cambodia and Thailand

4:20pm December 15, 2023

by Mandalit del Barco

The Metropolitan Museum of Art had been displaying artwork from the Khmer era that was associated with a man indicted in 2019 for the illegal trafficking of antiquities.

Dans la tour (In the Tower)/Self-Portrait of Leonor Fini with Constantin Jelenski, 1952, oil on canvas

Arts

'She was a pure creator.' The art world rediscovers Surrealist painter Leonor Fini

8:27am December 09, 2023

by Greg Allen

Although not as well known as contemporaries like Dalí and Ernst, Fini was part of every major Surrealist exhibition. And her personal life was almost as fantastic as her Surrealist art.

A foundation has doubled their $250 million pledge to diversify monuments in the U.S.

5:27pm December 06, 2023

An initiative from the Mellon Foundation dedicated to creating monuments that tell diverse stories recently pledged to double its funding for the project.

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Palestinians search the destroyed annex of the Church of Saint Porphyrius, damaged in a strike on Gaza City on Oct. 20.

More than 100 Gaza heritage sites have been damaged or destroyed by Israeli attacks

6:00am December 03, 2023

by Chloe Veltman

The nonprofit group Heritage for Peace's preliminary findings show 104 historic religious buildings, museums and archaeological sites have been destroyed or damaged.

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An attendee views one of rising artist Adulphina Imuede's dreamlike illustrations at ART X.

Africa's flourishing art scene is a smash hit at Art X

10:24am November 18, 2023

by Emmanuel Akinwotu

It's Art Month in Nigeria — and a highlight is the celebration of art that is Art X, a wide-ranging fair that highlights "Black portraiture" as well as other creations from the continent.

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Artist Kelly McKernan in her studio in Nashville, Tenn. 2023.

Arts

New tools help artists fight AI by directly disrupting the systems

4:43pm November 03, 2023

by Chloe Veltman

Visual artists are fighting back against unauthorized uses of AI on their work by using tools that contaminate and confuse the AI systems. One tool, for example, can make AI think a dog is a cat.

The National Museum of Women in the Arts reopens after a major two-year renovation

6:20pm October 20, 2023

by Olivia Hampton

The National Museum of Women in the Arts, the world's first major museum solely dedicated to championing women artists, reopens after a major two-year renovation to revamp its exhibition spaces.

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