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Jeff Gates, a political artist leery of hyperpartisanship, has made unsubtle, densely layered portraits more for frustration than persuasion.

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barbed wire and tattered union jack bunting - all making a comment on modern British life - has won this year's Turner Prize. Jesse Darling picked up the prestigious art award and its £25,000 ...

Brian Sewell is back—sort of. The viper-tongued art critic left a trail of artists and curators seething and teary-eyed during his three-decade reign as art critic at London's The Evening Standard.

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These arabesque patterns were neither specifically Arabian nor religiously symbolic, but they remain a unifying feature of Islamic art. A matrix of intertwining stems, leaves, and flowers form a ...

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The Smithsonian’s museums display objects from our collections that span the breadth of art and design from the ancient to the modern-day, from the whimsical to the practical. Along with our ...

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By Graham Bowley and Tom Mashberg Sotheby’s opened a new salesroom and international collectors are arriving for the inaugural Art Basel Paris fair. But visiting is one thing; buying is another.