Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label art. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Smithsonian artists and scholars respond to White House list of objectionable art : NPR

A page published by the White House entitled "President Trump Is Right About the Smithsonian" lists exhibits, educational sites and more that the administration seems to take issue with.

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/24/nx-s1-5511241/smithsonian-white-house-art 


 

Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Wednesday, November 9, 2022

The Wall of Liars and Deniers: the artwork compiling the biggest US election lies

Buehler stated that lots of people come up and tell him "thank you" and share feelings of anxiety around the election and the enormous numbers of voters who believe Trump's big lie that the election was stolen. "Someone told me, 'you hear about the big lie, but when you see how many people are spreading it, and on top of all the other lies Trump told, it hits you in a new way. You're not just reading it, it's visualized, that brings it to the forefront.'"…


Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Fancy Galleries, Fake Art (Reveal podcast)

How two well-respected New York art galleries sold more than $80 million in fake art.

In the mid-’90s, two high-end New York art galleries began selling one fake painting after another – works in the style of Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Mark Rothko and others. It was the largest art fraud in modern U.S. history, totaling more than $80 million. Our first story looks at how it happened and why almost no one ever was punished by authorities.

Our second story revisits an investigation into a painting looted by the Nazis during World War II. More than half a century later, a journalist helped track it down through the Panama Papers.
Interview: 


Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Fancy galleries, fake art (The Reveal podcast)

In the mid-’90s, two high-end New York art galleries began selling one fake painting after another – works in the style of Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Mark Rothko and others. It was the largest art fraud in modern U.S. history, totaling more than $80 million. Our first story looks at how it happened and why almost no one ever was punished by authorities.

Our second story revisits an investigation into a painting looted by the Nazis during World War II. More than half a century later, a journalist helped track it down through the Panama Papers.
Interview: 


Tuesday, January 1, 2019

Thursday, October 25, 2018

Sunday, June 17, 2018

Charles White's powerful portraits of black America – in pictures - the guardian

The artist created what his gallerist, and later he, called 'images of dignity' while portraying African American life in the US. He was part of Chicago's flourishing black artistic community in the 30s, believing that 'art must be an integral part of the struggle'. His work is being celebrated in the centenary year of his birth at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Modern Art in New York ....
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/jun/12/charles-whites-powerful-portraits-of-black-america-in-pictures

Sunday, May 14, 2017

You Can Download 200 Art Books Free From the Guggenheim

Too stingy for expensive art books? The Guggenheim has you covered. Since 2012, the museum has been slowly digitizing its collection of monographs, catalogs, and other art books. Now, it's up to 205 books, all available to download for free from the Internet Archive, as Vice's Creators reports....
http://mentalfloss.com/article/500580/you-can-download-200-art-books-free-guggenheim








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