Art
Jacques-Louis David
Painting martyrs and producing state funerals and pageants, the artist fueled France's bloody revolutionary fervor
Pierre Bonnard
The masterful modernist manipulated light, form and focus to create color-strewn scenes of everyday life
Ursula von Rydingsvard Sculpts Metaphors in Wood
The contemporary artist combines primordial forms and highly expressive content to produce haunting and monumental works of uncommon power
The Case of the Disappearing Frescoes
Or how a mustachioed Barcelona artist foiled an elaborate plot to spirit Catalonia's priceless Romanesque paintings away from their homeland
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A Window on a World of Shape and Color
Richard Diebenkorn always sidestepped the hype; now, his art is saying it all
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Art That Turns Life Inside Out
Casting friends and family in plaster, George Segal creates "environments" that bring inner reality to the surface
The House that Art Built
Money is no object for the Getty Trust, as it builds its collections and does good works around the globe. Now it has a new home overlooking Los Angeles
Go West, Moran
A lifetime of painting the country's natural treasures was this tenderfoot's destiny
Picasso Takes on the Masters
A book by Susan Galassi explains why the artist with an eye on the future kept returning to the art of the past
In Praise of Shadows
Artfully balancing them is just one of the tricky tasks faced by designers of museum lighting
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A Heartland Artist Who Broke the Old Regionalist Mold
Two current exhibitions prove that, although Charles Burchfield's watercolors are set in specific places, these works know no boundaries
The Faith of the Byzantine World Is Alive at the Met
There was no room for doubt in the Second Golden Age, as embodied in the ivories, enamels, jewels, silks and other treasures
Let Us Now Praise the Romantic, Artful, Versatile Toothpick
Flirting, scale modeling, putting on the dog through the ages, the device has been used for a lot more than dental hygiene
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