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• Reading at the Palace

  17-03-2025 22:52 via artsjournal.com
  <a href="https://www.artsjournal.com/herman/2025/03/reading-at-the-palace.html" title="Reading at the Palace” rel=”nofollow”><img width="150" height="150" src="https://www.artsjournal.com/belknap/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/flyer-for-the-Palace-reading-400-150×150-1.jpg"
  
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• On Further Reflection, Was “Mona Lisa” A Vampire?

  17-03-2025 20:01 via theconversation.com
  
  Looking again at how the myth of the Mona Lisa emerged, I believe that her fame is due not just to the painting’s display of artistic ingenuity – but to the troubling vampirism and gender ambiguity that 19th-century critics saw in Leonardo’s work. – The Conversation
  
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• ‘I think my fetish furniture hampered my career’: Allen Jones on decades of controversy

  17-03-2025 16:01
  
  He wanted to remove sculpture’s safety valve – and blew up the 60s as a result. The great pop-pioneer looks back on an extraordinary career, from getting thrown out of art school to covering Kate Moss in fibreglassAllen Jones, painter, sculptor and print-maker – he calls himself a painter who sculpts – is arguably the first, debatably the most famous British pop artist. I meet him in the studio he built 20 years ago, when he moved out of London to the Cotswolds, the kind
  
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• Borderline genius: how José María Velasco’s landscapes redefined perceptions of Mexico

  17-03-2025 09:00
  
  An exhibition of works by the 19th-century artist shows his role in creating a sense of Mexican identity – revealing that he was more polymath than painter Due to the longstanding political and territorial anxieties that emanate from the border between Mexico and the US, both countries often choose to define themselves in terms of their relationship to the other. We mostly get to see the American side of this ever evolving story, but a new exhibition at the National Gallery in London gives
  
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• The art expert did it: LGG Ramsey revealed as 1951 thief of Van Dyck painting

  17-03-2025 07:00
  
  Exclusive: How one historian’s investigative work led to artwork finally being returned to ‘English Versailles’In 1951, a leading British art expert visited a stately home in Northamptonshire and viewed its paintings by old masters alone because the owner was ill.Six years later, the wife of Boughton House’s owner popped into an American museum, where she was struck by a vivid portrait of a German prince by Anthony van Dyck that looked just like theirs. She was to discove
  
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