Gauguin

Gauguin Exhibition Strikes Controversy

Posted 02.21.2012

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Almost as legendary as Paul Gauguin's colorful depictions of Tahitian utopia is the colorful story of how he got there and what he did once in the tro...

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Art's Best Frenemies

Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Marquez, Stephen King, Kubrick, Stanley Kubrick, Raphael, Michelangelo, Gauguin, Best Fiend, Van Gogh, Picasso, Banksy, Warner Herzog, Kinski, Art History, Artist Drama, Robbo, Frenemy, Arts News

Long before middle school girls made 'frenemy' a household term with their three-way phone calls and backhanded insults, Raphael and Michelangelo were...

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What Is Art? Famous Artists Respond

Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Andy Warhol, Ad Reinhardt, Leonardo, Twyla Tharp, Edgar Degas, Warhol, Karl Marx, Da Vinci, Degas, George Wyllie, Gauguin, Braques, Nietzsche, Art Is, Arts News

For centuries we have wondered, what is art? Many nights we've tossed and turned pondering this unsolvable question. And now, HuffPost Arts is here to...

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QUIZ: Who Painted That Pup?

Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Pet Art, Art Quiz, Raphael, Degas, Da Vinci, Cat, Durer, Millais, Gauguin, Courbet, Magritte, Animals, Van Gogh, Puppy Art, Brueghel, Monet, Dali, Art Test, Art History, Puppy, Van Eyk, Bosch, Masterpieces and Pets, Bronzino, Manet, Pontormo, Arts News

Long before LOLCats graced the world with its presence, people looking to get a good laugh at a furry animal had to get their hands on one the old fas...

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SLIDESHOW: Artists Gone Wild

Posted 11.20.2011

Artists are often eccentric; that's part of their appeal. But there's a fine line between eccentricity and hide-your-kids lunacy, and the artists in t...

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Serial Art Attacker Indicted

Posted 11.02.2011

Read More: Art Attacker Indicted, Crimes, Matisse Attack, Susan Burns, Gauguin Attack, Washington DC, Gauguin, National Gallery of Art, Susan Burns Indicted, Art Attack, Susan J Burns, Matisse, Susan Burns Paintings, Arts News

Susan J. Burns, who made news earlier this year for twice attacking world famous paintings in the National Gallery of Art, was indicted in Washington,...

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PHOTOS: The Art That Inspires Dior

Evelyne Politanoff | Posted 07.08.2011

Read More: Moscow, Pushkin Museum, Art News, Christian Dior, Fashion Exhibition, Inspiration Dior, Cezanne, Jeff Koons, Gauguin, Picasso, Dior, Vanessa Beecroft, Maurizio Cattelan, Style, Nudes, Orlan, Museums, Modigliani, Goya, Renoir, Arts News

On February 12, 1947, Christian Dior presented his first collection on Avenue Montaigne. The revolution is underway and the new look is born. Unknown ...

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PHOTOS: Sexism, MJ & Evil Art: Highlights This Week

Posted 06.08.2011

Read More: Politics, Maine Labor Mural, Michael Jackson, Public Art, Art Controversy, Museums, Michael Jackson Statue, Sculpture, Two Tahitian Women, Highlights, Gauguin, Painting, Ai Weiwei, Republicans, Arts News

Outrage was the name of the game this week on HuffPost Arts. An artist went missing after being detained by the Chinese government, a woman was arrest...

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Woman Attacks 'Evil' Painting

AP | By BEN NUCKOLS | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: National Gallery, Art, Tahiti, Museums, Two Tahitian Women, Washington DC, Paul Gauguin, Gauguin, National Gallery of Art, Painting, Arts News

WASHINGTON -- A woman accused of pounding on a painting by Paul Gauguin and trying to rip it from a wall at the National Gallery of Art told police th...

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Gauguin Painting Attacked

The Washington Post | Timothy R. Smith and and Martin Weil, Sunday, April 3, 10:07 PM | Posted 06.03.2011

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A painting at the Gauguin exhibit in the National Gallery was attacked last week by a gallery visitor, a rare and unusual incident that provoked consi...

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Post-Impressions

Nigel Hamilton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paris, Cezanne, Post-Impressionism, Toulouse-Lautrec, Musee D'Orsay, Gauguin, San Francisco, Van Gogh, De Young Museum, Birth of the Modern, Seurat, Impressionism, Bernard, Bonnard, Denis, Arts News

America is so vast that, living in Boston, I simply had no idea San Francisco was hosting such an exhibition. It took Thanksgiving and a visit to my w...

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$5 Billion Of Masterpiece Art Locked Away In Iran

Guardian | Robert Tait | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Magritte, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Miro, Renoir, Braque, Toulouse-Lautrec, Gauguin, Tehran, Van Gogh, Monet, Pissarro, Entertainment News

The Picasso masterpiece is worth an estimated £25-30m on the international art market, but its only regular contact with the human eye is the fiercel...

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