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Jane Bown / Camera Press / Redux The Conundrum of Lucian Freud’s Portraits
How to assess an artist who was ruthless—and revealing—in work and life
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Musée du Louvre Leonardo da Vinci’s Unexamined Life as a Painter
A new show marks the 500th anniversary of the artist’s death, and reveals some of his innermost thoughts.
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National Portrait Gallery A New Exhibition Shows Women as Artists, Not Muses
Pre-Raphaelite Sisters, at London’s National Portrait Gallery, moves female creatives from the margins of a historical era and puts them at the center.
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Danny Lyon / Magnum Photos Remembering Robert Frank Through the Portraits Others Took of Him
One way to commemorate the late photographer, who pioneered the “snapshot aesthetic,” is to see him the way other artists did.
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Delay / Keystone / Redux Robert Frank’s Messy and Singular Rolling Stones Documentary
A controversial film about the band directed by the late photographer is an off-kilter masterpiece that reveals his singular eye.
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Kristine Eudey / Leslie-Lohman Museum The Photographer Who Captured 20th-Century Queer Life
Joan E. Biren’s images from the ’70s and ’80s—which appear in the new exhibit “Art After Stonewall”—reflect an effort to document and encourage lesbian love.
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The Pollock-Krasner Foundation The Irrepressible Emotion of Lee Krasner
The 20th-century painter is celebrated in a spectacular London retrospective that exposes the fullness of her career for the first time.
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Courtesy of Steffani Jemison The Whitney Biennial Homes In on American Precariousness
This year’s survey of 75 artists and collectives is quiet and suffused with anxiety.
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Corbis Historical / Getty The Many, Many Theories About Leonardo da Vinci
The artist, inventor, and all-around Renaissance man has been dead for half a millennium, but there’s no end to the wild sleuthing about him and his work.
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Benoit Tessier / Reuters Neon Is the Ultimate Symbol of the 20th Century
The once-ubiquitous form of lighting was novel when it first emerged in the early 1900s, though it has since come to represent decline.
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Yves Herman Reuters Notre-Dame Isn’t Lost
The history of sacred structures is defined by ruin and repair.
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Paul Morigi / National Portrait Gallery The Obama Portraits Have Had a Pilgrimage Effect
One year after Kehinde Wiley’s and Amy Sherald’s paintings were unveiled, the director of the National Portrait Gallery reflects on their unprecedented impact.
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Ryan Maxwell The Artwork That Traps Ivanka Trump in an Endless Cleanup Task
Ivanka Vacuuming, a performance piece by Jennifer Rubell, combines striking visuals with a muddled message.
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Frank Augstein / AP To Understand Art, Think Biology
Just as cells are the building blocks of the human body, a painting’s points, lines, colors, and tensions are the building blocks of its life.
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Fred W. McDarrah / Getty Warhol’s Bleak Prophecy
What a new retrospective reveals about the artist, and about our swerve away from humanism
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Victoria Jones / Reuters / AP / The ... David Hockney’s Record-Smashing $90 Million Painting
Portrait of an Artist (Pool With Two Figures) is an unquestionable masterpiece. It just shattered the previous world record for a work sold at auction by a living artist.
