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Hank Willis Thomas Picked to Create Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King Monument for Boston

ArtfixDaily / March 5th, 2019

Hank Willis Thomas was selected as the winner of a competition for a public monument in Boston to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King. The Kings met in Boston while he was attending theology school at Boston University and she ...

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Art & Politics: Soul of a Nation Symposium

Los Angeles / March 23, 2019

On Soul of a Nation's opening day, The Broad will present a day of enriching conversations, artist talks and poetry, organized by UC Irvine professors Bridget R. Cooks (associate professor, African American Studies and Art History) and...

Over the Crest: The Lightning by Montague DawsonBlogs

The Master of Maritime: Montague Dawson

Beauty, Rarity, History...The M.S. Rau Antiques Blog / March 20th, 2019 13:37

Montague Dawson spent his lifetime devoted to the sea. He grew up alongside it during the early years of his childhood in London; he fought upon it during the Great War; and he captured it on canvas throughout his long and highly...

University of Arizona Museum of Art in Tuscon will once again display de Kooning's Woman-Ochre after a restoration and exhibit at the Getty. The painting was stolen in 1985, and found in 2017 at an estate sale.

This Week: A Stolen-Found De Kooning Resurfaces, and Police Fool Thieves With Fake Brueghel

ArtfixDaily / March 14th, 2019

Willem de Kooning's 'Woman-Ochre,' recently rediscovered in an estate sale after being stolen from a museum in 1985, will finally see the light of day. Said to be worth $100 million, the painting was found for sale by a New Mexico ...

Will Barnet, Self-Portrait, 1981, was part of the exhibition "Will Barnet at 100" – the artist’s first New York museum retrospective – at the National Academy Museum on Sept. 16-Dec. 31, 2011. Barnet received a 2011 National Medal of Arts on Feb. 13, 2012

Another Year Passes Without National Medal of Arts Awards

ArtfixDaily / March 5th, 2019

The White House's prestigious annual recognition of American artists, the National Medal of Arts awards, have not been announced or given since President Trump took office in January 2017. This represents the longest gap between ...

Ellsworth Kelly 2019 stamp collection from USPS.

USPS Honors Artist Ellsworth Kelly With 2019 Stamps

ArtfixDaily / March 1st, 2019

The USPS will issue 2019 stamps featuring the vibrant work of American artist Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015). The selection comes after Forever® stamp collections that have honored Andrew Wyeth (in 2017), Hudson River School artists (in ...

New York magazine in 1982 with Mary Boone on the cover.

After Prison Sentencing, Art Dealer Mary Boone Will Close Her Gallery

ARTnews / February 24th, 2019

Veteran New York art dealer Mary Boone, 67, will shutter her eponymous gallery. She was sentenced on Feb. 14 to thirty months in prison for filing false tax returns, with prosecutors alleging that she defrauded the IRS of over $3 ...

The golden-sheathed coffin from the 1st century B.C.

The Met Will Return A Newly Acquired Antiquity to Egypt Due to Dubious Provenance

New York Times / February 19th, 2019

The Metropolitan Museum of Art will return a golden-sheathed coffin from the 1st century B.C. to Egypt after investigators revealed the piece was allegedly looted in 2011. Newly acquired for nearly $4 million by the Met, the heavily ...

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Rendering of “The Embrace” designed by Hank Willis Thomas with MASS Design Group.
Hank Willis Thomas Picked to Create Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King Monument for Boston

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Don Ed Hardy (American, b. 1945) Surf or Die, 2004. Color lithograph with metallic gold powder, 772 x 572 mm (30 3/8 x 22 1/2 in.) Printed by Bud Shark. Published by Shark’s Ink, Colorado.
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University of Arizona Museum of Art in Tuscon will once again display de Kooning's Woman-Ochre after a restoration and exhibit at the Getty. The painting was stolen in 1985, and found in 2017 at an estate sale.
This Week: A Stolen-Found De Kooning Resurfaces, and Police Fool Thieves With Fake Brueghel

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Plaster copies of Parthenon pediment sculptures at the Acropolis Museum stand in for original pieces that remain at the British Museum.
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