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The Story Behind Banksy
On his way to becoming an international icon, the subversive and secretive street artist turned the art world upside-down
Flower Power, Redefined
In a new book, Andrew Zuckerman embraces minimalism, capturing 150 colorful blooms on white backdrops
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The Baroque master animated 17th-century Rome with his astonishing sculpture and architecture
October 2008
| By Arthur Lubow
On a morning in a Oaxacan market, photographer Graciela Iturbide made one of the most enduring images of Zapotec life
September 2008
| By Lynell George
September 01, 2008 | By Megan Gambino
Ancient gold artifacts from Afghanistan, hidden for more than a decade, dazzle in a new exhibition
September 2008
| By Richard Covington
With the purchase of Botticelli’s Death of Lucretia, Isabella Stewart Gardner and her art dealer Bernard Berenson took American collecting in a new direction
August 12, 2008
| By Cynthia Saltzman
The author of Old Masters, New World discusses how 19th century American collectors acquired European masterpieces and what it meant for museums and our nation.
August 12, 2008
| By Alison McLean
A new exhibition of oversized photographs by Richard Misrach invites viewers to have fun in the sun. Or does it?
August 2008
| By Kenneth R. Fletcher
The Photographer explains how a series of beach pictures were inspired by the events of September 11
August 01, 2008
| By Kenneth R. Fletcher
Call them gaudy, call them kitsch, but archaeologist Vinzenz Brinkmann insists his eye-popping reproductions of ancient Greek sculptures are right on target
July 2008
| By Matthew Gurewitsch
The photographer uses movie production techniques to create "in-between moments." But you'll have to supply the story line
June 2008
| By Kenneth R. Fletcher
Europe's idiosyncratic house museums yield pleasures beyond their size
June 2008
| By Tony Perrottet
On the artist’s innovative spirit
May 19, 2008
| By Amei Wallach
Ten of the most incredible art heists of the modern era
May 20, 2008
| By Siobhan Roth
Revealing art secrets—and exposing forgeries
May 15, 2008
| By Dina Modianot-Fox
At the Museum of Fakes, what's not real is still art
May 08, 2008
| By Dina Modianot-Fox
For sixty years, upheavals in Chinese politics have not only remade the country’s economy–they have remade Chinese art
May 02, 2008
| By Christina Larson
Did Winslow Homer have a broken heart?
May 2008
| By Amanda Bensen
Winslow Homer took watercolors to new levels. A Chicago exhibition charts the elusive New Englander's mastery
May 2008
| By Robert M. Poole
An excerpt from a history of Frenchboro, Long Island, one of Maine's last remaining year-round island communities
May 01, 2008
| By Dean Lawrence Lunt
Choreographer Lori Belilove pays homage to Isadora Duncan, the mother of contemporary dance
May 01, 2008
| By Robin Reid
A new exhibition of works by Childe Hassam, a pioneering interpreter of the French style, highlights his "incorrigibly joyous" break with the past
August 2004
| By Doug Stewart
A high-tech investigation helps explain Winslow Homer's staying power
May 2008
| By Robert M. Poole
In Milton Greene, Marilyn Monroe found a friend as well as the photographer who caught the fullest range of her vibrant personality
May 2008
| By Michelle Stacey
Broadway producer Jeffrey Seller tells us what it takes to stage a hit musical
April 01, 2008
| By Megan Gambino
Whether denouncing France's art establishment or challenging Napoleon III, Gustave Courbet never held back
April 2008
| By Avis Berman
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