The Diane Arbus You've Never Seen
This summer, the Met Breuer will be showcasing the artist’s early work, much of it never before published or exhibited.
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CreditFrances McLaughlin-Gill/Condé Nast, via Getty Images How Diane Arbus Became ‘Arbus’
In the late 1950s the influential photographer was depressed, her marriage over. Amid the wreckage, she found the freedom to shoot what she wanted.
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CreditCourtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures Art Review
Cindy Sherman’s Divas, Poised for a Final Close-Up
Ms. Sherman’s ingénues from the late ‘70s are older, some confronting aging with little regret.
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CreditFelix Torkar At Venice Biennale, Germany Makes a Case for Welcoming Refugees
The country’s exhibition presents homeland as a fluid concept that must be established through policy, culture and architecture.
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CreditIwan Baan, via Diller Scifidio + Renfro, EHDD and BAMPFA A Reborn Museum in Berkeley Offers Form as an Essential Fact of Existence
“Architecture of Life,” the first show in the new home of the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive in California, uses its space wisely.
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CreditClemens Toussaint/Courtesy of the Heirs of Kazimir Malevich Europe Celebrates Kazimir Malevich, a Pioneer in Abstract Art
A multitude of exhibitions feature the Russian artist’s works, 100 years after the debut of Suprematism.
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CreditMarilynn K. Yee/The New York Times Bronx Museum of the Arts Plans to Expand and Raise $25 Million
The museum wants to unify its various spaces, add exhibition room and establish a $10 million endowment.
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Credit2016 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Kena Betancur, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Settlement Reached in Dispute Over Ownership of Picasso Bust
In the case, two prominent collectors claimed to own the work, the plaster “Bust of a Woman,” but the legal victor of the settlement remains a mystery.
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CreditVincenzo Pinto/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images A Banksy Art Show Opens in Rome
“War Capitalism & Liberty,” a survey of Banksy’s art at Palazzo Cipolla, opened this week with more than 100 works lent by private collectors.
