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Oft-Forgotten Hispanic Museum Looks To Make Name For Itself

AP | ULA ILNYTZKY | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: El Greco, Hispanic Society of America, Harlem & the Heights Historical Society, Nyc Hispanic Museum, NY Around Town, New York Around Town, Velazquez, Goya, New York News

NEW YORK — Situated behind a wrought-iron gate on an attractive brick terrace in upper Manhattan, the Hispanic Society of America is an imposing...

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PHOTOS: The 10 Best Paintings Of Jesus Ever

Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Dali, Leonardo, Mantegna, Serrano, Art History, Jesus, Christmas, Michelangelo, Religious Art, Best Jesus in Art, Velazquez, Pontormo, Giotto, Goya, Arts News

Christmas is upon us, and what better way to celebrate then by shuffling through a slideshow of Jesus in all of his many forms? Some are baby, some ar...

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Brooklyn Street Art Presents: Best Images Of 2011

Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington | Posted 02.10.2012

Read More: Various & Gould, Aiko, Wynwood Walls, Roa, Boom, Ufo, Monster Island, Blek Le Rat, Rambo, Nohjcoley, John Baldessari, Chris, Insa, Swampy, Elbow Toe, Nick Walker, Qrst, Retna, Steven P. Harrington, Primary Flight, 5 Pointz, Jr, Gaia Clown Soldier, Ema, Ecb, Creepy, Goya, Billy Mode, Miami, Sweet Toof, El Sol 25, Skewville, The London Police, Vhils, Gifted, La Freewalls, Broken Crow, Booker, Xam, Radical!, JA JA, Los Angeles, Jaime Rojo, Banksy, Faile, AD HOC Arts, Lisa Enxing, L.E.T., Albany Living Walls, Read More Books, LA MoCA, Droid, Demon Slayers, Welling Court, ND'A, How & Nosm, Joe Iurato, Invader, Brooklyn Street Art, BrooklynStreetArt.Com, Overunder, Occupy Wall Street, Kenny Scharf, Barry Mcgee, Dain, Read, Chris Uphues, D*Face, Bast, Faith 47, LMA Cru, Enzo & Nio, Martha Cooper, Ludo, Nomade, Will Barras, Baltimore, Cern, Hellbent, Specter, Kid Acne, Toofly, Veng, Kim West, No Touching Ground, Shin Shin, General Howe, Os Gemeos, Chris Stain, Swoon, Pantheon Projects, Knitta Please!, Shepard Fairey, Aakash Nihalini, Herakut, Anthony Lister, Dabs & Myla, Yok, Kopye, Purth, Sadue, 907crew, Wing, Mosstika, Labrona, Jaz, Rwk, oze108, Gen2, Irgh, Video, Arts News
Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington

It's been an excellent year for street art all over the world and we've had the pleasure of seeing a lot of great stuff from both big names and anonym...

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Beyond the White Cube: Time Traveling with Artist Frohawk Two Feathers

Yasmine Mohseni | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Stevenson Gallery, Taylor De Cordoba, Frohawk Two Feathers, Rubens, Goya, Cy Twombly, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Arts News
Yasmine Mohseni

Born Umar Rashid in Chicago in 1976, he one day began looking into his own heritage and was disappointed at the meager information he uncovered. So, he started inventing his own ancestry.

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Was Goya A Traitor To The Spanish Cause?

Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Napoleon, Amsterdam, France, French Occupation, Spain, X-Ray Technology, Delft University, UK Arts, Napoleon Bonaparte, Joseph Bonaparte, Francisco Goya, Rijksmuseum, Francisco De Goya, X-Ray, Antwerp University, Don Ramón Satué, Goya, Disasters of War, Arts News

A new painting by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya has been discovered underneath his portrait of Judge Don Ramón Satué at the Rijksmuseum in Amste...

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Every Picture Tells a Story

Tom Teicholz | Posted 10.12.2011

Read More: Cezanne, Paintings, Renoir, Collectors, Salvador Dali, Rodeo Drive, Pablo Picasso, Art, Prints, Degas, Los Angeles, Goya, Arts News
Tom Teicholz

Michael Schwartz with Clients. Photo courtesy of Galerie Michael. For 30 years, Michael Schwartz has owned and operated Galerie Michael, an art g...

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Guess The Artist: Answer Revealed!

Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Art, Romanticism, Francisco De Goya, Romantic Artists, Artists, Court Painter, Enlightenment, Painting, Goya, Guess the Artist, Arts News

Yesterday we showed you the work of art below and asked you to guess the artist who created it. Thousands of you guessed in our poll, but less than 50...

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Guess The Artist (The Answer May Surprise You)

Posted 08.19.2011

Read More: Art, Romanticism, Gilbert Stuart, Artists, Court Painter, Enlightenment, Painting, Hogarth, Goya, David, Guess the Artist, Arts News

This prolific painter is regarded by some to be the first Modern artist. Although he was a court painter, his work was frequently highly critical of h...

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Apocalyptic Art Through The Ages

Posted 07.21.2011

Read More: Dali, Bouguereau, End Times, May 21, Judgment Day, Apocalypse, Sculpture, Bosch, Ghiberti, Durer, Painting, Rapture, Picasso, Goya, Apocalypse Art, Arts News

Even if the Rapture doesn't come May 21, maybe thinking about Judgment Day every century or so can be a good thing. The End of Times have been a popul...

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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
Evelyne Politanoff

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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Stolen Spanish Masterpieces By Goya & El Greco Found

AP | By HAROLD HECKLE | Posted 06.17.2011

Read More: Baptism of Christ, Alicante, El Greco, Oil Paintings, Spanish Art, Annunciation, Spain, Painting, Madrid, Prado, Christie's, Apparition of the Virgin of Pilar, Exhibitions, Looted Art, Stolen Art, Goya, Arts News

MADRID -- Spanish investigators have recovered stolen masterpieces by two of the country's most revered artists: Goya and El Greco, a police statement...

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BLOG WATCH> 50 Spooky Scenes From Art History On Chicago Art Blog

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Devil, Halloween, Art, Zombies, Vampires, Scary, Gericault, Hieronymus Bosch, Monster, James Ensor, Goya, Death, Chicago Art Blog, Kathe Kollwitz, Arts News

It's October and Halloween is not far away. A lot of us will need inspiration for costumes and scary decorations, and what better place to find it th...

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LOST ART: Is the Art of Bullfighting Dead?

guardian.co.uk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Guernica, Animal Cruelty, Catalonia, Nimes, Bullfighting, Picasso, Goya, Arts News

Spanish bulls are breathing more easily after Catalonia became the first region to abolish bullfighting. Humanitarians are happy, too. Oh yes, it's al...

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Culture Zohn: Happy Summer Culture

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: David Childs, Thom Mayne, Dominque Gonzalez-Foeorster, Billie Tsien, Todd Williams, Ed Ruscha, Alberto Siza, Amanda Burden, Statue of Liberty, Velasquez, Murillo, Frank Gehry, Harlem, Museum of Natural History, Hispanic Society, Dia Foundation, Richard Meier, Goya, Pritzker Prize, Ellis Island, Dalai Lama, Sorolla, New York News
Patricia Zohn

2010-05-27-outsidepull.jpg If ever there was an argument against the pig-headedness and jingoistic behavior of Arizona, Ellis Island and the Hispanic Society would be it.

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Blague d'Art

Peter Frank | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Contemporary Art, Velazquez, Painting, Goya, Margaret Bowland, Los Angeles News
Peter Frank

Gallerists, notorious (and pitiable) for their need to answer to public taste, have gone out on a limb to import not just paintings, but art that asserts the "condition of painting."

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Baby Survives Shooting In Parents' Suicide Pact

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Baby, Goya Argentina, Suicide Pact, Global Warming Suicide, Suicide, Argentina, Global Warming, Goya, Suicide Pact Baby, World News

A baby girl survived for three days with a bullet in her chest in Argentina after her parents killed themselves and her brother in a global warming-ba...

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Touring Harlem, Lost and Found

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abyssinian Baptist Church, Harlem, Church, Lena-Horne, Count Basie, Archer Milton Huntington, Drugs, Hispanics, New York, Thelma Golden, Mexican Immigrants, Apollo Theater, Tourism, Lincoln Kirstein, Rezoning, Mrs. Astor, Jazz, Sex, 555 Edgecombe Ave., Duke Ellington, Malcolm X, Anna Vaughn Huntington, Synagouge, Goya, Lana Turner, Studio Museum in Harlem, Black Culture, High-Priced Condominiums, Paul Robeson, Cabcalloway, Domenican, Style News
Michael Henry Adams

Are you wistful for that old-time Harlem?

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Three Goya Sketches Lost For 130 Years Expected To Fetch $6 Million At Auction

CBC News | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Goya Auction, Lost Goya Sketches, Goya, Business News

Three Goya sketches will be seen for the first time in more than 130 years in July at Christie's in London where they are expected to sell for up to $...

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