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Cuban graffiti artist makes his mark in Havana

Feb 15, 2017

The whimsical designs of the graffiti artist with the signature Yulier P. began to appear randomly on walls around Havana three years ago. The first ones were large abstract renderings of rabbits, th...
‘Renaissance man’ Tillmans show blends politics and art

Feb 15, 2017

Fake news, Brexit and genitals: a Wolfgang Tillmans exhibition opening at the Tate Modern on Wednesday is an eclectic show that the edgy German artist says is as much about poetry and art as politics...
Museum to feature artist’s take on stolen Gardner works

Feb 14, 2017

A Massachusetts art museum is offering visitors a unique glimpse of the 13 masterpieces stolen more than a quarter century ago from the Gardner Museum in Boston. The exhibit opening Tuesday at the M...
LA tower ridiculed as ‘$1 million jukebox’ may get face-lift

Feb 13, 2017

For 40 years, Joseph Young festooned public buildings, open spaces and private places across his adopted city of Los Angeles with dozens of brilliant, colorful mosaics, larger-than-life murals and to...
Guggenheim celebrates immigrant roots in age of Trump

Feb 13, 2017

The Guggenheim Museum is highlighting the work of some of the visionaries who shaped its collection, using the occasion to note immigrants‘ contributions to American art weeks after President Donald ...
‘Violence’ moves NY museum to shut down anti-Trump art show

Feb 12, 2017

NEW YORK (AFP) -- A streaming video performance installation that aimed to provide a forum for anti-Trump expression was shut down after it became “a flashpoint for violence,” New York’s Museum of th...
Painting stolen by Nazis returned to Jewish owner’s heirs

Feb 9, 2017

NEW YORK (AP) - Some 80 years ago, the Nazis forced prominent German Jewish art gallery owner Max Stern to sell his family’s roughly 400-piece collection before he was exiled from his country. FBI a...
Traveling exhibition features Rockwell‘s ‘Four Freedoms’

Feb 8, 2017

STOCKBRIDGE, Massachusetts (AP) - Norman Rockwell’s most celebrated series of paintings is embarking on a multiyear tour across the US and to Europe. The exhibit titled “Enduring Ideals: Rockwell, ...
New document by Chun Kyung-ja says ‘Beautiful Woman’ is fake

Feb 8, 2017

A document surfaced Tuesday that suggests “Beautiful Woman” might be a fake, in the latest twist in the decadeslong dispute over the painting‘s authenticity. The bereaved family and lawyers of renow...
Original Korean musical to open off-Broadway

Feb 7, 2017

English-language version of psychological thriller will be performed by US cast
Stolen Van Goghs on show in Naples

Feb 7, 2017

NAPLES, Italy (AFP) -- Two Van Gogh masterpieces stolen in Amsterdam in 2002 and recovered last year in Italy will be on show in Naples from Tuesday until Feb. 26. The brief exhibition at the Capodi...
Vibrant Tate show traces of David Hockney’s artistic journey

Feb 7, 2017

LONDON (AP) - It’s not often an artist finds himself occupying 12 rooms of London’s leading museum of British art and the front page of populist tabloid The Sun. But David Hockney is unique. For cur...
Dutch city unveils ‘largest ever Mondrian painting’

Feb 6, 2017

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) -- Dutch officials unveiled Friday what they called “the largest Mondrian painting in the world” to celebrate the Netherlands’ best-known abstract artist, who helped foun...
Rodin Museum fetes sculptor with passion-themed installation

Feb 6, 2017

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Auguste Rodin’s sensuous piece “The Kiss” will, fittingly, form the core of an installation at Philadelphia’s Rodin Museum centered on the theme of passion to mark the 100th anniv...
Art star Anish Kapoor wins $1m Jewish prize

Feb 6, 2017

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Sculptor Sir Anish Kapoor was named on Monday as this year's winner of the million-dollar Genesis Prize, awarded for commitment to Israel and Judaism, organizers said. British-Indi...