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Old Masters

Neptune and Cupid Plead with Vulcan for the Release of Venus and Mars, circa 1625–36

Fabric of Society

Under the reign of Louis XIV, the art of tapestry was esteemed higher than painting, prized for its power to impress the masses with royal power and wealth.

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Hung Liu, Manchu Bride, 2015

Hung Liu: Ghost World

Hung Liu’s paintings call a lost China back to life.

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Edward Ruscha, Standard Station, Amarillo, Texas, 1963

Popping Up Everywhere

An exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art highlights Pop Art from around the world.

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Ivan Kliun, Ozonator, 1914.

Out of This World

Four decades before Sputnik, Soviet avant-garde artists envisioned the conquest of space.

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Jackson Pollock, The Flame, circa 1934–38

Jackson Pollock: No Chaos

With his drip paintings, Jackson Pollock found a new kind of order that inspired future generations of artists in all media to strive for boundlessness. Featured Images: (Click to Enlarge) Jackson Pollock was born in 1912, in Cody, Wyo. Eight years later, he moved with his family to small-town California. After working for a time…

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Flawless fancy vivid blue diamond from the Cullinan Mine in South Africa.

Flight of Fancy: Colored Diamonds

Colored, or “fancy,” diamonds have gone from being a curiosity to being the ultimate prize among gems.

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Andre Dubonnet, Jean Andreau, Hispano-Suiza, H6B Dubonnet “Xenia” Coupe, 1938

Moving Designs: Art Deco Cars and Motorcycles

Cars from the Art Deco era park themselves at the MFA Houston.

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Théodore Géricault, Sailboat on a Raging Sea, about 1818 – 1819

The Black Arts: 19th-Century French Drawings and Prints

The Getty Museum shines a light on some dark works.

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Pierre Bonnard, Self-Portrait, c. 1904

Pierre Bonnard: Trouble in Paradise

Pierre Bonnard’s search for Arcadian bliss may have been frustrated in life, but it yielded a harvest of color that endures in art.

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