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The modern art form that was secretly funded by the CIA during the Cold War
The image of a straight-laced CIA agent hardly goes hand and hand with the rebellious, chain-smoking, avant-garde artist, but ...
The fall Modern & Post-War Art auction will include work from the early twentieth century through post-World War II art movements such as Pop, Minimalism, and Abstract Expressionism. Jack Tworkov & ...
The Imperial War Museum was founded in 1917 so we would never forget the horrors of modern war, but it is unsure how to remember Britain’s modern history. Britain is no longer imperial. The mass ...
Exhibited at Manhattan’s Museum of Modern Art last week were three types of art from three nations. In one room were examples of U. S. industrial art in machined metal and glass. In another the Museum ...
The modern-day Monuments Men will be based at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. The U.S. Army Reserve and the Smithsonian are partnering to establish a modern-day "Monuments Men" program, reviving a ...
Have you ever looked at a painting in a museum of modern art and felt extremely confused attempting to understand the artist’s message? When and why did American creators ‘decide’ that realism is too ...
War movies have been around for almost as long as the art of cinema itself. But few films actually convey what it's really like to wage war. Mendoza is a newcomer to Hollywood, but he brought ...
The Austrian master’s full-length “Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer” sparked a 19-minute bidding war to become the most valuable modern artwork sold at auction.
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