In a New Exhibition at the Barnes Foundation, Cecily Brown Takes the Long View
While hanging Cecily Brown’s new exhibition, the curators at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia noticed that Brown, the ...
How Cannibalism on the High Seas Became Illegal
The Custom of the Sea gave sailors who ate their comrades in a survival situation a pass -- until this 1884 tragedy.
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Cecily Brown On Revisiting History, Subverting the Gaze and Embracing the Accident
The artist’s mid-career retrospective at the Barnes Foundation is a testament to her relentless confrontation of the history ...
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Skip Lines For The Mona Lisa And Check Out These Underrated Alternatives During Your Louvre Visit
Art connoisseurs flock to Paris' Louvre to see iconic works like the "Mona Lisa." However, many other less-crowded historic pieces are worth checking out.
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Those Passions by TJ Clark — exhilarating essays on painting and politics
spanning Bosch and Géricault — “dreaming the shipwreck of a politics he despised” in “The Raft of the Medusa” — to Europe’s slipperiest modernists, each a prophet of dazzling ...
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Raft of the Medusa
124 x 177 cm. (48.8 x 69.7 in.) ...
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Untitled (from the series The Raft of Medusa)
39.4 x 47.2 in. (100.1 x 119.9 cm.) ...
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“Many Mansions”
One of the reasons I used that structure was because, when I started out, the artists and works that I really admired—like Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa, I think I mentioned that earlier—that ...