The American painter and printmaker Robert Rauschenberg (born 1925) experimented freely with avant-garde concepts and techniques. His wild inventiveness and frank eclecticism were tempered by his almo...
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Pop art was the art movement of the 1950's and 1960's. `Popular art' was concerned with the concept of commercial products and mass media being considered art. Popular culture was a major theme in the...
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New York (dpa) - The legendary New York gallery owner Ileana
Sonnabend, who provided a forum for great artists such as Andy
Warhol, Georg Baselitz and Robert Rauschenberg, h...
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New York (dpa) - The legendary New York gallery owner Ileana
Sonnabend, who provided a forum for great artists such as Andy
Warhol, Georg Baselitz and Robert Rauschenberg, h...
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Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings has left the Met, and not a moment too soon. Am I the only New Yorker happy that the tempestuous Dutchman has hit the road?
Whenever the Van Gogh name gets onto ...
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Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings has left the Met, and not a moment too soon. Am I the only New Yorker happy that the tempestuous Dutchman has hit the road?Whenever the Van Gogh name gets onto a muse...
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Ornette Coleman stands before Jackson Pollock’s Number 13 (1949), one of the more poetic splatter paintings, ferociously dense yet airily light. He ponders it for several minutes, tracing his...
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Ornette Coleman stands before Jackson Pollock’s Number 13 (1949), one of the more poetic splatter paintings, ferociously dense yet airily light. He ponders it for several minutes, tracing his...
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Charles Mee, one of the village elders of the New York avant-garde scene, is being honored by the Signature Theatre Company with his own season, a richly deserved accolade. The 68-year-old innovato...
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The American artist Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) created one of the 20th century’s strangest and most quixotic bodies of work. Through the tender arrangement of dolls, balls and assorted Victor...
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Roy Lichtenstein believed his creative vision heralded a new approach to art. Others, however, were pretty sure he was crazy. Critics ridiculed him. Art aficionados sniffed at his work.And in 1964,...
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What does John Updike know about art, anyway? Enough to write about it perceptively. The renowned novelist’s art criticism appears in The New York Review of Books and has been collected in a ...
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Robert Rauschenberg
A Comparison of Robert Rauschenberg and Anselm Keifer
Bridge to Europe: US gallery owner Ileana Sonnabend dies
