At the Brooklyn Museum, a tribute to fashion’s showman who built temples out of curves and proved clothing had metamorphic properties.
Tag: Art
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How Drake Rescued the Long-Lost Art Carnival Luna Luna
In 1987, the Austrian artist André Heller debuted an avant-garde amusement park with works by Basquiat, Dalí and Haring. Its disappearance was a winding tale. Its return is even more bizarre.
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Remembering Joe Brainard, Poet and Painter of Miniature Works
The prodigious artist Joe Brainard reveled in making small-scale works, but as a new show reminds us, exemplified the soaring spirit of collaboration between painters and poets in the ’60s.
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Did Five Paintings Lose Their ‘Oomph’? It’s a $410 Million Question.
Holding companies connected to Ronald O. Perelman are suing his insurers, saying that five of his pieces worth that amount were damaged in a 2018 fire. His insurers say the fire never reached the paintings.
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Made You Look: The Cubist Art of Deception
Picasso, Braque and Gris learned new tricks from old masters of optical illusion. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new show, they shatter modern art to pieces.