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Tate Britain's Now You See Us: 10 firsts of extraordinary women artists in Britain, abandoned by art...
Evening Standard via Yahoo Canada News· 2 months agoThis groundbreaking exhibition re-introduces 110 forgotten female professional artists. Here are 10...
The long history of how Jesus came to resemble a white European
The Conversation via Yahoo Canada News· 3 months agoRecent protests on racial justice have also questioned the portrayal of Jesus as a white man. An art...
Major Berlin show marks 250th anniversary of German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich's birth
Associated Press via Yahoo Canada News· 3 months agoA major show of Caspar David Friedrich's iconic landscapes that marks the 250th anniversary of his...
Diana’s dress? Marie-Antoinette’s gilded chair? Collectors are weird
The Telegraph via Yahoo Canada News· 6 months agoCollectibles. If there’s one noun that makes my heart sink it’s collectibles. Thimbles, watches,...
Many intimate Renaissance portraits were hidden behind covers — this new exhibition explores why
CNN via Yahoo News· 3 months agoPortraits in the Renaissance era didn’t just hang on walls, but were often concealed behind painted...
Your mullet is more than a haircut, it's a political statement – a hair historian explains
The Conversation via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoFrom Paul Mescal at the Baftas to Emma Corrin’s Governors Awards “mixie” haircut, the 1970s-inspired...
X-ray reveals this 16th-century portrait got a cheekbone glow-up
CNN via Yahoo News· 8 months agoYoung Derich Born’s cheekbones were not always sharp enough to peel apples — new research reveals...
Peter Howson: new retrospective reveals how Scots painter found redemption after Bosnian war
The Conversation via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoPeter Howson’s story is one of seeking dignity in human suffering and violence, and finding redemption; it is also uniquely Scottish. When The Apple Ripens, Howson’s retrospective at Edinburgh ...
William Blake was called a 'lunatic' in his lifetime. The Getty hails him as a visionary now
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 7 months agoWilliam Blake was an artisanal imagemaker dubbed a 'lunatic' during Britain's Industrial Revolution. The Getty Museum has other ideas in its new exhibition.
Fake masterpieces fooled collectors. The FBI caught on after a decade.
USA TODAY via Yahoo Canada News· 3 months agoEarl Marshawn Washington’s replicas of centuries-old European woodcuts were so exquisite people believed they really were from the heyday of the art form, and he sold them as precious examples ...