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The New Woman of the 1920s was an expression of modernity, a global phenomenon that embodied female empowerment based on real women making revolutionary changes in life and art.  At The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, The … Continued

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There is a new exhibition at the MET beginning on February 12 that you won’t want to miss. The artist in question needs no introduction and is one of the greatest painters of all time. Goya’s Graphic Imagination compiles a … Continued

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Goya, She orders them to put the carriage away, musses her hair, tears at it, and stamps, all because Father Whoever told her to her face that she looked pale, 1796–98. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935
about time at the met

The Met Gala was canceled this year for obvious reasons, but the Costume Institute exhibit that inspired it is still a go. To celebrate the 150th anniversary of New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the exhibit, “About Time: Fashion … Continued

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Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory For the first time in 25 years, the Latvian-American artist, Vija Celmins, is showcasing her latest retrospect. Within the scope of her time, Celmins has taken part in forty solo exhibitions and … Continued

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Shell by Vija Celmins
The Theater Box by Félix Vallotton

Like no other artist of his time, Félix Vallotton chronicled the bourgeois of Paris in the late 1800s. His brazen, original approach, spareness, political leanings and an odd discomfort run throughout his art. We feel something is off, out of … Continued

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Abstract art after World War II was a discussion often dominated by white, male, mostly straight painters. It can feel like a rehash to explain and exhibit Abstract Expressionist or Minimalist canvases for the umpteenth time, but thanks to a … Continued

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