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Oil industry funded Girl Scouts and British Museum to boost image, evidence suggests

BP has funded Washington’s National Gallery of Art, UK’s Royal Shakespeare Company and National Portrait Gallery

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"Climate Activist Found Guilty in Defacing Degas Exhibit at National Gallery of Art"

From Tuesday's Justice Department press release: Timothy Martin, 55, of Raleigh, North Carolina, was found guilty by a federal jury… The post "Climate Activist Found Guilty in Defacing Degas Exhibit at National Gallery of Art" appeared first on Reason.com.

Reason

What is a trained clown and what does the training look like?

Where do clowns come from? In popular culture, they may come from alien worlds, such as Killer Klowns from Outer Space, peer out from drains like Pennywise from Stephen King’s It, or emerge from a vat of chemicals or a lab accident, like The Joker in DC comics.

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Climate activist who defaced Edgar Degas sculpture exhibit sentenced

A federal judge sentenced Joanna Smith to 60 days in prison for smearing paint on the case surrounding Edgar Degas' Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen at the National Gallery of Art.

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Pierre Bonnard: the master of shimmering luminosity, who painted difficult paintings and yet made them lucid and accessible

Pierre Bonnard, unlike his older contemporary, Paul Gauguin, never visited Australia, yet Bonnard’s influence on Australian art is pervasive and profound.

The Conversation

Photos Show the Transformation of Great Britain

A new exhibit at the National Gallery of Art displays how the U.K. changed in the 1970s and '80s.

Reason

Art: Laura Cumming’s 10 best shows of 2022

A year of revelations spanned Arles to the African diaspora, an unsung 20th-century great, and still lifes that are anything but…

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Museums spar over authenticity of painting ahead of major Vermeer show

Rijksmuseum to display Girl With a Flute at exhibition despite National Gallery of Art, Washington, saying it is an imitation

The Guardian - UK

Cezanne review – a mesmerising master of everyday mystery

Quivering apples, mountainscapes like haikus… this first major UK show in a generation lays bare the French artist’s daring

The Guardian - UK

Art researchers discover one of Dutch artist Vermeer's paintings is not actually his

A team of curators, conservators and scientists from the National Gallery of Art say Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Flute was actually painted by someone else.

WEKU

A slavery-era instrument is on the National Mall, singing 'songs of liberation'

An old-fashioned steam calliope designed by luminaries in the worlds of art and jazz is on display at the National Sculpture Garden.

WEKU

Degas, Picasso Sculptures Bring Record Prices in New York

A sculpture by Edgar Degas sold Thursday for $41.6 million at Christie's in New York, the highest price paid at auction for a work by the French artist, while a bronze by Pablo Picasso also broke a record. The Degas sculpture -- "Petite danseuse de quatorze ans" -- is a…

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‘This is rarely taught’: an exhibition examining African-Atlantic history

A landmark exhibition, featuring artists including Hank Willis Thomas and Kara Walker, explores the slave trade and the African diaspora’s cultural legacy

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