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The Neue Galerie exhibit's empty frames represent paintings that were lost or destroyed by the Nazis. They appear beside works that survived Nazi rule, like George Grosz's Portrait of the Writer Max Hermann-Neisse (lower right).

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'Degenerate' Exhibit Recalls Nazi War On Modern Art

2:28pm June 02, 2014

by Lloyd Schwartz

In 1937, two Nazi art shows aimed to teach the public to despise modernist art and show them what art should be. An exhibit at New York's Neue Galerie reunites works from both landmark shows.

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From Stick Figures To Portraits, Bush Frees His Inner Rembrandt

4:26pm April 15, 2014

by Lauren Silverman

Former President George W. Bush worked with many world leaders while in office. Now, he's unveiling 24 portraits he painted of some of them. The exhibit will be at his new presidential library.

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Too Many Artists, Too Little Time: The Problems And Promise Of The Whitney

7:29pm March 07, 2014

by Karen Michel

It's time again for the show that people love to hate: the Whitney Biennial, an overview of American art. Critics often trash it, but as Karen Michel says, this year's showcase has a few surprises.

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These Guitars Are For The Birds — Literally

7:44pm January 15, 2014

A new exhibit at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass., features a flock of 70 finches and an array of tuned and amplified guitars. As the flock fills the open room, the birds are free to land on the guitars, making music of their own as they move and jump off the instruments.

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Mountain Gorillas, one of the first dioramas on which Fred Scherer apprenticed, completed in 1936.

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In The Background: Art You May Never Notice

12:31am December 18, 2013

by Claire O'Neill

Why that unassuming museum art — which you'll find behind taxidermic bison and birds — deserves a closer look.

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Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring is one of 15 17th century Dutch paintings on view at New York's Frick Collection through early 2014.

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'Pearl Earring' Is The Crown Jewel Of The Frick's Dutch Exhibit

7:48pm December 05, 2013

by Lloyd Schwartz

New York City is home to more paintings by Johannes Vermeer — eight — than any other city. And until mid-January, it's playing host to one more: the world-renowned Girl with a Pearl Earring. Critic Lloyd Schwartz says, since the painting's 1994 restoration, "It's even more breathtaking than I remembered."

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The boats of For Those in Peril on the Sea, by artist Hew Locke, hang in the entrance hall of the Perez Art Museum Miami, which opens this week.

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For Miami, A New Art Project, Complete With Drama

6:02pm December 03, 2013

by Greg Allen

The Perez Art Museum Miami opens this week, and despite praise for the building's design, the museum faces controversy over its name and has an uphill battle in a city where the art scene is already defined by private collectors.

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"A Slave Carrying Her Fate In Her Hands," Frances

Trove Of Artifacts Trumpets African-American Triumphs

6:44pm November 26, 2013

by Allison Keyes

More than 35 years ago, Bernard and Shirley Kinsey began acquiring documents, artifacts and artworks that tell the story of the African-American experience. The collection, which spans more than 400 years, spotlights not black pain, they say, but the strength and resilience of African-Americans.

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Robert Henri's 1913 Figure in Motion was a realistic, but bold response to Matisse's and Duchamp's nudes.

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In 1913, A New York Armory Filled With Art Stunned The Nation

3:08pm November 11, 2013

by Susan Stamberg

The 1,400-work exhibition gave many Americans their first look at what avant-garde artists in Europe were up to. It was the biggest art show New York had ever seen and challenged ideas about artistic "progress."

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Pablo Picasso drew L'Homme au Gibus, or Man With Opera Hat, in 1914.

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Forget The Lottery; You Have Better Odds Of Winning This Picasso

7:55pm October 25, 2013

by Margot Adler

Man With Opera Hat is being raffled off to raise money for Tyre, an ancient Phoenician city in Lebanon. At $135, tickets don't come cheap, but your chances of winning are much better than the megalotteries a lot of people enter, and it's still the closest many will come to owning one of Pablo Picasso's works.

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