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  • February 2008
    • Scandal-Master Courbet Dazzles

      Scandal-Master Courbet Dazzles

      (Newser) - Parlaying scandal into success may seem a terribly modern ploy, but Gustave Courbet, the subject of a new retrospective at New York's Metropolitan Museum, mastered the art 150 years ago. Courbet, the realist painter and father of modern art, painted both gorgeous, subtle scenes and uglier, intentionally awkward tableaux. They stand side by side in this "deeply engaging and utterly fascinating retrospective," Ariella Budick writes in Newsday . More »

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      art   painting   Metropolitan Museum of Art   modern art   Gustave Courbet

  • September 2007
    • German Cardinal Uses Nazi Term to Describe Art

      German Cardinal Uses Nazi Term to Describe Art

      (Newser) - Germans are in an uproar after an archbishop labeled some modern art “degenerate,” the same word Nazis used to persecute artists. A spokesman for Cardinal Joachim Meisner said the archbishop didn’t intend to acknowledge “old ideologies,” but the BBC says the term was precisely scripted because it has only one connotation in Germany, where the Nazi legacy is still taboo. More »

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      Germany   art   Catholic Church   Nazi   Adolf Hitler   modern art

  • June 2007
    • Diamonds Are a Skull's Best Friend

      Diamonds Are a Skull's Best Friend

      (Newser) - The priciest work of modern art ever created is on view at a London gallery, priced at just $100 million. Death-obsessed artist Damien Hirst cast a human skull in platinum and encrusted it with diamonds, creating a piece he calls "For the Love of God." He kept the original teeth, he tells Bloomberg, as "a reminder that it's real." More »

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      art   Damien Hirst   diamond   modern art   skull

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