Velazquez

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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Kia Makarechi

Vienna In NoLIta

HuffingtonPost.com | Kia Makarechi | Posted 12.17.2011

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If you keep your head down while walking down Mulberry Street in the boutique-laden depths of NoLita this week, you might miss it. But for those pl...

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WATCH: King Philip IV Signs Autographs At The Met

Posted 05.25.2011

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It is so humbling when royals take the time to meet and greet with lowly civilians. Especially when it is a fake royal signing unauthorized autograph...

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Larry Rivers After Crossing His Delaware

Barbara Probst Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011

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Barbara Probst Solomon

Larry was intellectual, literary, and one of the most brainy artists of his generation, but there was always the feeling in the art world that the more intellectual the artist, the less talented the painter.

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From The Painter's Table: January's Ten Most Popular Posts

Brett Baker | Posted 05.25.2011

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Brett Baker

Snowbound January days, it seems, were good for painting, reading, and blogging, at least if the painting blogosphere is an indicator.

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PHOTO: Guess The Artist Responsible For This Masterpiece

Posted 05.25.2011

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This painting, displayed large in the foyer of a Boston museum, is among the most famous works by this canonical American artist. HINTS: this painti...

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Yale Discovers Velazquez Painting In Its Holdings

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Yale art experts say they've discovered a painting in their midst is a work by renowned Spanish baroque artist Diego Velazque...

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Hot Art for Hot Days

Paul Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Velazquez, Jason Peot, Chicago Art Galleries, Chicago Art, Jackie Kazarian, Arts News
Paul Klein

Summer art in Chicago is changing. There's a wealth of good shows and good art covering all of Chicago -- more than even I can get to.

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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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Metropolitan Museum Of Art Reattributes Painting To Velazquez

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art has reattributed a painting in its collection to the 17th-century Spanish master Velazquez...

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