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The Metropolitan Museum on Mar. 13, the first day it was closed due to the coronavirus.

N.Y.'s Met Museum Projects $150 Million Shortfall, Lays Off 81 Employees

5:08pm April 23, 2020

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

One of New York City's biggest tourist attractions and the U.S.' largest art museum says that it has revised its budget shortfall projection — some $50 million greater than just a month ago.

Installation view of Katharina Fritsch exhibition at the Matthew Marks Gallery in Los Angeles.

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With Surprising Sculptures, Katharina Fritsch Makes The Familiar Fun

5:02am April 20, 2020

by Susan Stamberg

The German sculptor is known for her giant roosters — one sits perched atop the National Gallery of Art. Here's a glimpse of her LA show, which is currently closed due to the coronavirus.

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30 Years Ago, An Audacious Museum Heist In Boston

4:39pm March 18, 2020

by Andrea Shea

On March 18, 1990 — 30 years ago — two thieves walked into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, tied up security guards and made off with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of art.

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Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, photographed in New York on Aug. 19, 2007. The artist, best known for their work in the groups Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, died on March 14, 2020.

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Provocateur And Industrial Co-Creator, Dead At 70

12:00pm March 15, 2020

by Sasha Geffen

The Manchester-raised artist was an invariably complicated and controversial figure, said to exert an unhealthy level of control over their collaborators.

Salvador Dalí Artwork Found At North Carolina Thrift Store

7:08am March 11, 2020

The ignored piece of art, priced somewhere between $10 to $50, turned out to be a 1950s woodcut print that was created and signed by Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí.

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The "Hearts of Our People" exhibition is devoted entirely to the art of Native American women past and present. Above, Náhookǫsjí Hai (Winter in the North)/Biboon Giiwedinong (It Is Winter in the North) by D.Y. Begay (Navajo), 2018, wool and natural dy

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'Making Is About Our Survival': Exhibition Celebrates Artwork Of Native Women

6:02pm March 07, 2020

by Neda Ulaby

The "Hearts of Our People" exhibition is devoted entirely to the art of Native American women past and present. "We're still very powerfully here," says Anita Fields, one of the artists in the show.

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's 1896 lithograph Woman Reclining — Waking Up from the portfolio Elles

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Get A Glimpse Of Labor, Leisure And Everyday Life In Paris' Belle Époque

7:55am February 27, 2020

by Susan Stamberg

In the decades before World War I, French artists began painting scenes of ordinary life — on the street, at work, at home, in clubs and cafes. Their work elevated common acts into fine art.

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Eric Tucker painted the everyday people in his hometown of Warrington, England — like this smoker in a pub.

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'Unseen Artist' Eric Tucker Spent Decades Painting — But Nobody Knew

7:31am February 22, 2020

by Frank Langfitt

Boxer and laborer Eric Tucker created hundreds of paintings of his home town — and kept them secret, stashed around his house. Now, almost two years after his death, he has a museum exhibition.

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What could you possibly have to learn from a houseplant?

The Lessons To Be Learned From Forcing Plants To Play Music

6:00am February 21, 2020

by Sophie Haigney

It's not as mean as it might sound (though it does involve a little electrocution) and the results can be both beautiful and, well, eye-opening.

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The Rembrandt That Was Fake, Then Real Again

4:11pm February 19, 2020

For over 50 years, a painting called "The Portrait of a Young Woman" was attributed to Rembrandt's studio rather than the master himself. But a restoration has some scholars saying it's the real deal.

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