Two Curators Tried to Find Out If Salvador Dalí Really Painted This Strange Seven-Foot Canvas. They Ended Up Solving an Even Bigger Mystery

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Two Curators Tried to Find Out If Salvador Dalí Really Painted This Strange Seven-Foot Canvas. They Ended Up Solving an Even Bigger Mystery

The painting appears in the Art Institute of Chicago's first show on the Spanish Surrealist.

By Sarah Cascone, Feb 27, 2023

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A Cabinetmaker Spent 30 Years Trying to Prove a Painting He Bought at an Antique Shop Is a Raphael. A.I. May Have Just Done It for Him

If "Flaget Madonna" receives art world backing, it could sell for millions at auction.

By Richard Whiddington, Feb 21, 2023

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Marginalia Uncovered in Leonardo’s Famous Codex Arundel Suggests the Renaissance Polymath Theorized Gravity Before Galileo

The finding was hiding in plain sight for centuries until the manuscript was studied by physicists.

By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Feb 20, 2023

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The World’s Love Affair With Robert Indiana’s ‘Love’ Series Endures—Here Are 3 Things You Should Know About the Pop Art Hallmark

With editions of the sculpture installed all over the world, Indiana's 'LOVE' series remains at the acme of art dedicated to love.

By Annikka Olsen, Feb 13, 2023

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Victor Burgin’s ‘Photopath’ Unlocked Multi-Dimensionality in Photography 50 Years Ago. Now, the Work Is Resurfacing in New York

Burgin’s artwork is the subject of both a new book and a dedicated exhibition at Cristin Tierney Gallery in New York.

By Taylor Dafoe, Jan 20, 2023

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Morris Hirshfield Worked Most of His Life as a Tailor—Here Are 3 Things to Know About the Self-Taught Artist Who Was Revered by the Surrealists and Is Now a Museum Star

The artist's work is currently on view in "Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered" at the American Folk Art Museum.

By Annikka Olsen, Jan 18, 2023

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Muslim Group Urges the Reinstatement of Fired U.S. Professor, Saying the Prophet Muhammad Painting She Showed to Students Was Not Islamophobic

The organization says the Minnesota teacher should be thanked for educating Muslim and non-Muslim students in "a critically empathetic manner.”

By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Jan 11, 2023

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A Minnesota University Is Under Fire for Dismissing an Art History Professor Who Showed Medieval Paintings of the Prophet Muhammad

Numerous organizations have rallied in support of professor Erika López Prater, calling for the university to protect academic freedom.

By Sarah Cascone, Jan 6, 2023

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Food for Thought: 7 High-Concept Artworks That Were Made to Be Eaten + One That Wasn’t (But Was Eaten Anyway)

Some of these artworks might just make you hungry for art.

By Annikka Olsen, Dec 29, 2022

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Did You Know These 6 World-Famous Authors Also Illustrated Their Own Books?

A picture may be worth a thousand words—but why not have both?

By Annikka Olsen, Dec 19, 2022

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Google Has Dedicated One of Its ‘Doodles’ to Judith Leyster, the 17th-Century Dutch Painter Whose Works Were Once Misattributed to Her Male Peers

The Doodle reimagines Leyster's famed 1630 self-portrait.

By Vittoria Benzine, Dec 19, 2022

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A Potential Cézanne Self-Portrait Was Found by a Cincinnati Art Museum Conservator Underneath a Meh Still Life of Bread and Eggs

A curator at the museum got a "hunch" something was hiding after seeing underlying paint through cracks on the canvas.

By Jo Lawson-Tancred, Dec 16, 2022

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