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Bogus Barnes Foundation: Fake Galleries, Phony Populism (VIDEO)

Lee Rosenbaum | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Matisse, Philadelphia, Art, Billie Tsien, Albert Barnes, Barnes Foundation, Derek Gillman, Tod Williams, Van Gogh, Museum, Video, Arts News

He famously had no patience for pretentiousness, privilege or elitism. He also famously despised Philadelphia, now home to his collection.

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'Origin of the Universe' Takes On Art History Greats

Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Santa Monica Museum of Art, Black Women, Mickalene Thomas, Video, Gustave Courbet, Foxy Brown, Slidepollajax, Black Artists, Female Artists, Female Gaze, Matisse, Henri Matisse, Arts News

Mickalene Thomas' works range from paintings of fractured interior spaces to thought-provoking riffs on famous works of art, yet her themes remain con...

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YSL's Masculine Feminine Retrospective

Posted 05.08.2012

Yves Saint Laurent was arguably the most influential designer of the past 50 years. His sleek, elegant visions became his trademark -- style was his b...

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The Steins' Avant-Garde Collection Shows At The Met

Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Juan Gris, Maurice Denis, Cubism, Tender Buttons, Jacques Lipchitz, Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Henri Manguin, Elie Nadelman, Francis Picabia, André Masson, Metropolitan Museum of Art Gertrude Stein, Picasso, Pierre Bonnard, UK Arts, Stein Salon, Matisse, Henri Matisse, Steins Collect, New York Art Exhibitions, Midnight in Paris, Met Steins Collect, Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, Marie Laurencin, Female Artists, Arts News

Anyone who has seen "Midnight In Paris" knows that the Stein house was the place to be if you were an aspiring artist, writer, musician or socialite. ...

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New York Art Dealer Charged In $4M Fraud

AP | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Robert Scott Cook, Auguste Renoir, Art Heist, Fine Art, Art Crimes, Picasso, Matisse, Art Dealer Charged, Henri Matisse, Fraud, Video, Art Fraud, Art Controversy, Pablo Picasso, Llc., Renoir, Arts News

NEW YORK — A New York art dealer has been charged in a $4 million fraud for selling works by Picasso, Matisse and others without informing the o...

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$140 Million In Stolen Masterpieces Tossed In The Garbage?

Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: Art Heist, Modern Art, Braque, Destroyed Art, Art Theft, Georges Braque, Garbage Art, Modigliani, Picasso, Heist, UK Arts, Leger, Matisse, Art Scandal, Paris Museum of Modern Art, Arts News

It was the perfect heist: sleeping museum guards, a broken alarm system, $140 million in loot, a police hunt that lasted over a year... there was just...

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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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Barnes Foundation Move Signals The End Of An Era

Jane Chafin | Posted 08.28.2011

Read More: Art, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Lower Merion, The Barnes Foundation, Dr. Albert C. Barnes, Philadelphia, Matisse, Museums, Ethics, Painting, Barnes-Foundation, Arts News

On Sunday, July 3, the doors to the Barnes Foundation in Lower Merion, PA will close. Its priceless art collection will be taken down, wrapped and shi...

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AICA Awards 2011: Establishing a Narrative

Lisa Paul Streitfeld | Posted 06.04.2011

If the AICA critics failed to recognize exhibitions that illuminated human consciousness as the catalyst to the creation of art, it is because narrative is not an acceptable approach to curation.

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Colorful Climb to Matisse's Perspective in France's Collioure

Meg Pier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Matisse, Cubism, Expectations, South of France, Fauvism, Picasso, Perspective, Mediterranean, Collioure, Travel News

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What's the Value of a Signature on an Art Print?

Daniel Grant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Leo Spitzer, Art Prints, Andrew Wyeth, Signatures, Arts News

Several years before his death in 1987, Andy Warhol sat down and signed his name on copies of the tabloid magazine Interview, of which he was the edit...

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Letter From Paris: Learning to See Like Matisse

Beth Arnold | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Matisse, Henri Matisse, Arts News

In this complex world in which we live, learning to see is a lifelong proposition. Not to blindly walk through life, but to consider what is before us. Oh, but to see the way Matisse did!

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Are Artists Bored by Their Work?

James Elkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Matisse, Labor, Art, Rembrandt, Inspiration, Art History, Work, Artists, Titian, Painting, Boredom, Opalka, Borofsky, Benjamin, Danto, Patience, Impatience, Auerbach, Holbein, T. J. Clark, Arts News

I have been writing about looking slowly, taking time to let the visual world seep into your thoughts. It took me three years, on and off, to learn to...

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Ballet Russes Design Perspectives

Constantin Bjerke | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Deisng, Stravinsky, Ballet, Students, Chanel, Fashion College, Classic, Matisse, Contemporary, Art, Lcf, Costume, crane.tv, Serge Diaghilev, Fashion, Russes, Arts News

With Diaghilev's vision and inclination to perfection, the group gained international renown for staging some of the most famous ballets in the world.

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How Long Does it Take To Look at a Painting?

James Elkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art Institute of Chicago, Vision, Stare, Picasso, Gazing, Glimpsing, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Patience, Impatience, Matisse, Mondrian, Looking, Visuality, Glancing, Gaze, Glimpse, Louvre, Glance, Staring, Tintoretto, Painting, Art, Jesus, Christian Art, Christianity, Worship, Arts News

My subject in these posts is how we look at the world. In future columns, I will be writing about all sorts of things, from hieroglyphs to ice halos, ...

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RULE Gallery Champions Young Artists in 4.0

Leanne Goebel | Posted 05.25.2011

It's no secret to those in the know in Denver that Clark Richert is an influential artist. From his early days in the experimental avant garde project...

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Culture Zohn: The Woman Behind the Picasso

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Matisse, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Ucla, A. Quincy Jones, Christies, Hammer Museum, Pablo Picasso, Sidney Brody, William "Billy" Haines, Frances Brody, Museum of Modern Art, Wight Gallery, Arts News

Frances Lasker Brody decided early on that she was too tall and not conventionally pretty enough to be a shrinking violet, "so she decided to speak her mind."

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PHOTOS: EXHIBITION SPOTLIGHT: 'Matisse: Radical Invention' On View At MoMA NYC

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Painters, NY Culture, Museums, Impressionism, Sculpture, Slideshows, New York Museum of Modern Art, Art Museums, Moma, Museum of Modern Art, Matisse, Prints on Paper, Slidefullscreen, Henri Matisse, Arts News

WHO: Henri Matisse WHAT: Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917 WHEN: July 18, 2010 - October 11, 2010 WHERE: The Museum of Modern Art 11 We...

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Brion Gysin's Flickering Light at the New Museum Dream Machine

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Matisse, Moma, The New Museum, William S. Burroughs. Brion Gysin, Entertainment News

After the Guggenheim's 2009 show, The Third Mind, named for a concept of collaboration by famed novelist William S. Burroughs and lesser known painter...

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Normandy Impressionist Festival: Andre Malraux Museum at Le Havre

Denise Dennis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Malraux Museum, Renoir, Musee D'Orsay, Le Havre, Normandy Impressionist Festival, Etretat, Normandy, SIsley, Pissarro, France, Matisse, Deauville, Edgar Degas, Andre Malraux, Impressionists, Olivier Senn, Art, Raoul Dufy, Claude Monet, Impressionism, Arts News

It is impossible to write about the impressionist art inside the museums of Normandy without describing the natural beauty and scenes from everyday l...

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Letter From Paris: Charles PierreHumbert at the Institut du Monde Arabe

Beth Arnold | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Matisse, Beth Arnold, France, Paris, Painting, Middle East, Arab World Institute, Arts News

We were exceptionally pleased to get a wonderful invitation to attend a reception to honor the gift of 11 of Charles PierreHumbert's North African paintings to the Institut du Monde Arabe.

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The Art of the Steal: Betraying Dr. Albert Barnes and Future Generations

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lincoln University, Renoir, Renzo Piano, The Wallace Collection, Mrs Milton W. Harrison, Philedelphia, The-Art-of-the-Steal, Central Park, Cleveland-Museum-of-Art, London, Matisse, Edward G. Rendell, Philanthropy, The Barnes Foundation, Mannerist, Paul Cret, Gertrude Stein, Walter Annenberg, Armory-Show, August Wilson, Monet, Great Depression, Boston, Akron Ohio, Picasso, Painting, Van Gogh, Degas, The-Frick-Collection, Robert Venturi, Modigliani, The-Cloisters, Henry Clay Frick, Newyork, Fenway Court, Stan Hywet Hall, Cleveland, Dr. Albert C. Barnes, Frank A. Seiberling, Olmstead Brothers, New York Times, George Gray Barnard, Richard Glanton, Pew Charitable Trusts, John F. Street, Art Collectors, Cézanne, Manet, Modernist, Post-Impressionist, Titian, Rafel Vinoly, Isabela Stewart Gardner, William-Glackens, Style News

Celebrated among aesthetes, the Barnes Foundation comprises a private collection groaning with manifold treasures among which are found African sculptures, Asian prints and Native American ceramics.

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Francois-Marie Banier Accused Of Conning French L'Oreal Heiress Liliane Bettencourt Out Of $1.5 Billion

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Olivier Metzner, Bettencourt, France, Francoise Bettencourt Meyers, L'Oreal, Liliane Bettencourt, L'Oreal Heiress, Salvador Dali, Picasso, Matisse, Francois-Marie Banier, World News

PARIS (AP) -- A French court on Friday ordered a photographer accused of bilking France's richest woman out of cash and art worth euro1 billion ($1.5 ...

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Michelle Obama, Master Colorist and Me

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Kimberly Brooks, Matisse, Cezanne, Michelle Obama, Oscar De La Renta, Picasso, Kuchner, Michelle Obama in Turkey, Arts News

As I look at the bold strokes of Michelle's color sense, I reflect upon Michelle's journey in fashion as one that might parallel that of my own and other women like her.

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Jane Fonda on Joining the Blogosphere

Marianne Schnall | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Twitter, Jane Fonda, 33 Variations, Blogging, Aging, Women's Media Center, Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy, Robert Redford, Vday, The Jane Fonda Center at Emory University, Robin Morgan, Matisse, Gloria Steinem, My Life So Far, Sisterhood Is Global Institute, Lily Tomlin, Beethoven, Moises Kaufman, Media News

Not content merely to speak to her Broadway audience eight times a week through a critically acclaimed performance, Jane Fonda is blogging daily and twittering nightly. She finds herself hooked on the instant feedback.

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