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Impressionism

Jill Greenberg, Cover Up.

Contemporary Photography: Multiple Exposures

Whether they’re inspired by Internet surveillance images or 17th-century portraits, contemporary artists draw on a wide range of material to stretch photography’s limits of expression.

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Duane Michals, Nora Barnacle, 2012, tintypes with hand-applied paint.

Duane Michals: The Wizard of Gramercy Park

Duane Michals has always chosen to photograph the things you can’t see, and now he’s using paint to show us things you can’t photograph.

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Pablo Picasso, The Old Guitarist, 1902–04

Chicago Style

The Second City has first-class art to see and buy, from museums to galleries to auction houses.

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Edward Burne-Jones, The Doom Fulfilled, 1885-1888

Young Victorian Punks

Washington D.C.’s National Gallery of Art mounts a sweeping exhibition of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood—the first U.S. retrospective of its kind.

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Helen Frankenthaler, Provincetown I, 1961, oil on canvas.

Helen Frankenthaler: Beyond the Sea

The late Helen Frankenthaler famously “departed” from Jackson Pollock with her early stain paintings in the 1950s, but she kept on making departures for the rest of her long, innovative career.

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A rust-splashed black-glazed ovoid bottle-vase, Song Dynasty (960–1279)

Dynamic Ceramics

With changing tastes, growing interest from China’s middle class and ancient objects emerging from the ground, there are some new opportunities in the hugely diverse realm of Chinese earthenware.

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Chuck Close, Self-Portrait, 2012, silkscreen in 246 colors, edition of 80

Freedom of the Press

The publishers that fostered a printmaking renaissance in the 1960s are every bit as active today, helping artists create original works and bring them to an ever-wider public.

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Thomas Girtin, Durham Cathedral and Castle.

Writ in Water

Before there was photography there was watercolor, a demanding medium that British artists mastered while documenting life and landscape at home and abroad. Featured Images: (Click to Enlarge) The most portable of paints created centuries of enduring views. Since the 18th century, watercolorists have packed up their brushes and worked near and far, recreating everything…

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Furuya Korin, Shoreline at Dusk, 1910

Screen Stars

Japanese folding screens, delicate but durable, enshrine centuries of painting tradition.

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