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Baltimore Museum Of Art Will Only Buy Works By Women Next Year
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The Baltimore Museum of Art will only buy works by women next year, as part of a yearlong series exhibiting art by women. Amy Sherald's Planes, rockets, and the spaces in between (2018) is among the 3,800 works by women in the museum's collection.
Step into one of the nation's top art museums, and most of the works you'll see were made by men.
The Baltimore Museum of Art has decided to make a bold step to correct that imbalance: next year, the museum will only purchase works made by female-identifying artists.
"This how you raise awareness and shift the identity of an institution," museum director Christopher Bedford told The Baltimore Sun. "You don't just purchase one painting by a female artist of color and hang it on the wall next to a painting by Mark Rothko. To rectify centuries of imbalance, you have to do something radical."
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You Too Can Spend The Night In An Edward Hopper Painting
At the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, guests can book a night in a re-creation of Edward Hopper's 1957 "Western Motel." A standard stay runs from 9 p.m. to 8 a.m., The New York Times reports.
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Good morning. I'm David Greene. Some paintings look so inviting, you just want to curl up inside the frame, right? Well, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, guests can book a night in a recreation of Edward Hopper's "Western Motel." Everything from the painting is there - even the warm light streaming through the window. One guest told The New York Times she had always wanted to sleep in a museum. Now, I should say the room does go on display for visitors during the day, so 8 a.m. checkout, all right?
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500 Years After Leonardo Da Vinci's Death ...
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Leonardo da Vinci's "Madonna of the Rocks" (left) and "La belle Ferronnière" or Portrait of an Unknown Woman (right), are both part of the Louvre's exhibition.
The largest-ever collection of works by Leonardo da Vinci is drawing record crowds at the Louvre in Paris this year, the 500th anniversary of the artist's death. The Louvre has brought together more than 100 paintings, drawings and manuscripts for the exhibition, which opened in October and will end in February.
Leonardo was a perfectionist, which is why, experts say, he produced only about 15 paintings. The exhibition includes 11 of them, the most ever brought together in one place. The Louvre keeps five of his paintings in its permanent collection.
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All For One And One For Four: Turner Prize Finalists Decide To Split Honor
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Tai Shani, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock and Oscar Murillo pose for photographs after their names were announced as joint winners of the 2019 Turner Prize.
On Tuesday night, four young artists had a chance to join a pantheon of Turner Prize winners, a list studded with a slew of marquee names. Like many of the awards handed out in the arts community, from the National Book Awards to the Oscars, the judges were expected to pluck just one winner from the crop of finalists — just as the prize named for painter J.M.W. Turner had been doing for some three and a half decades.
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France Remembers Leonardo Da Vinci
The exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci's works at the Louvre in Paris isn't the only way to mark the 500th anniversary of the artist's death. He spent the last years of his life in France's Loire Valley.
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Shepherds in Christmas Nativity scenes
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A horn player (left) in this detail from a 1694 altar carving by Francesco Antonio d'Alberto in Piedmont, Italy, clearly has a swollen neck that signifies goiter, medical historians say. The thyroid condition was a sign of poverty in those days.
Shepherds in Christmas Nativity scenes that were painted, carved or sculpted hundreds of years ago sometimes have throats with large, abnormal growths.
These are realistic depictions of goiter, an enlargement of the thyroid gland caused by iodine deficiency. The conditionwas common in those days in northern Italy, where the soil and water are depleted of iodine.
"Goiter is more often seen in poor people," says retired surgeon Renzo Dionigi of the University of Insubria in Varese, Italy, who notes that the working classes in this region would historically not have a varied diet that might supply this vital nutrient.
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How Do You Move 100+ Monet Masterpieces? Very, Very Carefully
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Conservator Felicitas Klein, right, traveled from Germany with Villas at Bordighera, an 1884 painting by Claude Monet. She inspects the painting at the Denver Art Museum, along with senior paintings conservator Pamela Skiles.
Visitors to the Denver Art Museum can currently see 120 different paintings by Claude Monet from all over the world. But how did they get there — like, literally get there?
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John Baldessari, Conceptual Art Pioneer, Has Died
Artist John Baldessari died last Thursday at his home in Venice, Calif. The artist helped shape not just a movement — conceptual art — but the LA art scene itself. He was 88.
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2020 Winter Show Highlights Artist Andrew LaMar Hopkins
The Winter Show — an annual antique and art exhibition — is on view this week in New York City. Paintings by Andrew LaMar Hopkins, a self-taught folk artist based in New Orleans, are on display.
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A New (And Final) Clue To 'Kryptos,' A Long-Standing Puzzle
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Jim Sanborn, creator of a cryptographic puzzle sculpture called "Kryptos" located at CIA headquarters, about his decision to release a third and final clue.
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