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Vermeer’s Daughter
A speculative theory holds that Maria Vermeer was not only a model for her father but also an artist who created several of the paintings attributed to him. Could it be true?
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Richard Sandler The Strange Intimacy of New York City
Look at these unfiltered photos of a bygone era. Then look again.
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic Generative Art Is Stupid
And that’s how it should be.
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Gregory Halpern / Magnum The Quiet Profundity of Everyday Awe
That feeling—of being in the presence of something vast—is good for us. And, counterintuitively, it can often be found in completely unremarkable circumstances.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Dawn of Artificial Imagination
OpenAI says programs like DALL-E 2 will “democratize” art.
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Michael Nagle / The New York Times / … The Man Whose Magazine Covers Changed America
The late graphic designer George Lois profoundly influenced generations of artists.
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Courtesy of InMotion Productions / Michelle Glass The Other Climate-Change Art Protest
Smearing soup on paintings is a stunt. What does real work look like?
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John Cliett / Dia Art Foundation, New York The Art Exhibit for the Anti-Instagram Age
A land-art installation that allows just six visitors a day simultaneously protects the artist’s vision and re-creates the art world’s penchant for exclusion.
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Josephine Powell An American Art Critic’s 70-Year Love Affair With Rome
Milton Gendel’s archive offers an acute vision of 20th-century Rome—from a distinctly American perspective.
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The Atlantic; Amistad Research Center / Tulane University; … Ken Burns Tells America’s History Through Six Photographs
These images reveal our nation’s most persistent tensions.
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Just Stop Oil / AP Just How Safe Is Great Art?
A museum-security expert admits that “it’s pretty darn hard to protect a painting from somebody throwing a can of soup at it.”
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Jack Lueders-Booth A Bygone Boston
In the 1980s, the photographer Jack Lueders-Booth captured life along the city’s Orange Line.
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Illustration by Guillem Casasús* The Guggenheim’s Scapegoat
A museum curator was forced out of her job over allegations of racism that an investigation deemed unfounded. What did her defenestration accomplish?
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic; Getty The Andy Warhol Case That Could Wreck American Art
Without strong fair-use protections, a culture can’t thrive.
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Wikimedia; The Atlantic We’re Witnessing the Birth of a New Artistic Medium
Expect AI art to go the way of Warhol.
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Katie Martin / The Atlantic; Getty Is AI Art a ‘Toy’ or a ‘Weapon’?
A prolific AI artist shares his perspective on the controversial medium.
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Copyright Baldwin Lee. Courtesy of Hunters Point Press … A More Complete Archive of the American South
Baldwin Lee’s rediscovered photographs are marked by moral clarity and rare intimacy.
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James Stanfield / GEO Images Collection / Art … Who Benefits When Western Museums Return Looted Art?
The repatriation of stolen objects has become a ritual of self-purification through purgation—but who it really serves is less clear than it might seem.
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The Art Institute of Chicago Tearing Down the Myth of Paul Gauguin
Daisy Lafarge’s new novel makes it impossible to separate the art from the artist.
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Ralph Gatti / Universal History Archive / Getty … How Picasso’s Great Anti-war Mural Flopped
Picasso’s giant mural about the horrors of war left its first viewers cold. How did this painting become one of the most important in the history of art?
