Jean Dubuffet Was Born 125 Years Ago Today. His Corps de Dames Made the Female Nude Brutal — and That Was the Point.
Jean Dubuffet was born on this day, July 31, 1901, in Le Havre. The son of wine merchants, he would […]
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Frida Kahlo Died 72 Years Ago Today. She Turned the Nude Body Into the Most Honest Autobiography Ever Painted.
On July 13, 1954, Frida Kahlo died in the same blue house in Coyoacán where she had been born 47
Manet\’s Olympia: The 1865 Scandal That Exposed Every Power Structure in Art
In 1865, \u00c9douard Manet hung a painting at the Paris Salon that made the most powerful people in France look
Sally Mann Was Born 75 Years Ago Today. Her Photographs Made the Nude a Question — Not an Answer.
Sally Mann (born May 26, 1951) turned the camera on her children, her dying husband, and herself — and forced the world to decide what belongs in a frame.
When Museums Call Art “Political”, the Body Is Usually the First Thing on Trial
A recent Southern California museum controversy offered a familiar lesson: institutions do not usually say they are censoring art. They