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MFA Boston Acquires Robert Frank’s Photographs of 1940s Paris

Robert Frank: Sick of Goodby’s, 1978. © The June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation A total of 38 photographs by Swiss-American photographer Robert Frank (1924-2019) was acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), the institution announced in a statement last week. The acquisition includes 34 photographs donated by the June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation, …

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For His Current Mid-Career Survey, Vincent Valdez Reflects on 25 Years of Putting America on Trial

Vincent Valdez, So Long, Mary Ann, 2019. Photo Paul Salveson/Private Collection Vincent Valdez’s studio in East Los Angeles is packed with large canvases, some still in progress. There’s a painting titled Supreme of the Supreme Court with portions unpainted and sketched on the canvas. On the same canvas, there are glimpses of the Rockefellers and …

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Jaime Muñoz Mixes Mesoamerican and Contemporary LA Iconographies to Create Paintings about Migration and Labor

Jaime Muñoz. Photo Eduardo Medrano Jr. Jaime Muñoz is a keen cultural observer. A conversation with him veers from art history, the commercialization of contemporary art, and Mesoamerican symbology to Los Angeles car culture, science fiction, and literature. All of these references and more filter their way into Muñoz’s art, which is steeped with the …

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Kim Kardashian May Have Bought $4.9 M. Basquiat Painting at Christie’s Auction

Kim Kardashian. Photo Taylor Hill/FilmMagic Rumors are swirling that Kim Kardashian may be the owner of a $4.9 million Jean-Michel Basquiat painting that appeared at auction at Christie’s in 2017. Kardashian has yet to officially confirm she is the buyer of the Basquiat painting, a 1982 canvas called Both Poles. But keen-eyed entertainment journalists noted …

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Zilia Sánchez, Painter of Erotically Tinged Shaped Canvases, Dies at 98

Zilia Sánchez. Photo Raquel Perez Puig Zilia Sánchez, an artist known for her shaped canvases that bulge outward, has died at 98. The San Juan–based aritst’s death was announced on Thursday by the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, which did not state a cause. Sánchez’s erotically tinged paintings alluded frequently to the female body, …

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Judge Rules Against Heirs of Famous Muralist Thomas Hart Benton, Ending Five-Year Legal Battle

The Thomas Hart Benton mural “Independence and the Opening of the West” is a fixture in the lobby of the south entrance to the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum in Independence. It depicts the role Independence played in changing the American West. TNS The five-year legal battle between the heirs of American scene …

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Partnership Between the Hilma af Klint Foundation and David Zwirner Stands to Separate the Artist’s Work for Profit

Hilma af Klint: Group IV, The Ten Largest, No. 7, Adulthood, 1907. Stiftelsen Hilma af Klints Verk. A potential agreement between the Hilma af Klint Foundation and mega gallerist David Zwirner stands to separate the artist’s work for profit. The family of the Swedish artist oversees her foundation, which is responsible for the preservation of …

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