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Museum of Fine Arts Opens Philip Guston Now Retrospective

Arts May 12

‘Philip Guston Now’ portrays art of controversial and confrontational painter

By Maureen Barillaro, Robert Judge and Jared Bowen, GBH

Arts May 10

Andy Warhol auction in New York City
Warhol’s portrait of Marilyn Monroe sells for $195 million, most for any U.S. artist

Andy Warhol's "Shot Sage Blue Marilyn" has sold for $195 million, making the iconic portrait of actress Marilyn Monroe the most expensive work by a U.S. artist ever auctioned.

By Associated Press

Arts Apr 27

climateart
Watch 5:11
Painter Christopher Volpe connects environmental conditions to our historic, literary past

The New Bedford Whaling Museum in Massachusetts is hosting the new exhibit "Loomings," inspired by the title of the first chapter of "Moby-Dick." Painter Christopher Volpe has created works prompted by the novel that take on an apocalyptic tone, with…

By Maureen Barillaro, Jacob Garcia, Robert Judge and Jared Bowen, GBH

Arts Jan 30

Tori Amos on Stage in London
Watch 6:23
Singer-songwriter Tori Amos on music, creativity and grief

Singer-songwriter Tori Amos usually takes a trip for inspiration when she begins a new record—but these last couple years, that was not in the cards. She speaks with NewsHour Weekend’s Christopher Booker about writing through the pandemic, and how staying…

By Christopher Booker

Arts Dec 31

fabricofanationo
Watch 5:30
These quilts weave together America’s rich, complicated history

Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts holds a patchwork of American stories — assembled one quilt at a time. Jared Bowen of GBH Boston has a look as part of our arts and culture series, CANVAS.

By Delores Edwards and Jared Bowen, GBH

Nov 22

Prominent poet Robert Bly, author of ‘Iron John’, dies at 94

By Steve Karnowski, Associated Press

Bly published his first book of poems, "Silence in the Snowy Fields," in 1962. He won the National Book Award in 1968 for "The Light Around the Body," a book of Vietnam War protest poems. Bly donated the $1,000 prize…

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Nov 07

Watch 4:39
An international mural festival brings art to Cleveland’s walls

By Karla Murthy, Sam Weber

Over a week earlier this summer, artists descended on a Cleveland, Ohio neighborhood to paint murals on buildings. Part of an international mural festival that has taken place in cities around the world, Cleveland was the first city in the…

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Oct 22

Warhol in Tehran: Iranians flock to American pop art exhibit

By Nasser Karimi, Associated Press

Iranians are flocking to Tehran's contemporary art museum to marvel at American pop artist Andy Warhol's iconic work.

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Oct 15

Van Gogh artwork looted by Nazis to be auctioned in New York

By Karen Matthews, Associated Press

Christie's is auctioning the 1888 work, "Wheatstacks," after facilitating negotiations between the Texas oilman's heirs who own it now and the heirs of two Jewish art collectors who owned it  before it was looted by the Nazis.

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Aug 27

5 Stories: An underwater volcano creates a new island off Japan, customs officials confiscate thousands of fake COVID-19 vaccination cards and other stories you missed

By Deema Zein, Julia Griffin

An Ivory Coast painter turns discarded flip-flops into art, new research suggests chemicals in household products are linked to 900,000 premature deaths each year and artist Josephine Baker is posthumously honored at Paris’s Pantheon. Check out these stories and others…

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