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Impressionism Opened the Door. Then All Hell Broke Loose. (opens the original)
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By the middle of the 1880s, Impressionism had fundamentally changed the possibilities of European painting. The artists associated with the movement challenged the authority of the official Salon, loosened academic standards of finish, expanded the range of subjects considered appropriate for ambitious painting, and made contemporary experience central to modern art. Railway stations, boulevards, cafés, theaters, suburban recreation, domestic interiors, gardens, rivers, dancers, laundresses, and
You drew a line and called it America (opens the original)
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September’s Hispanic Heritage Month series took us across thousands of years and an enormous geography, beginning by dismantling the idea that Hispanic describes a single race, culture, nation, language, or artistic tradition before going back to the worlds that existed long before Spain arrived at all. We moved through the Indigenous civilizations of Mesoamerica, the Caribbean, and the Andes; the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim cultures of medieval Iberia; 1492, conquest, colonization, conversion
First They Broke Color. Then They Broke Space. Then They Broke Reality. (opens the original)
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Modern Art I took us from the eighteenth century through revolution, empire, industrialization, Romanticism, Realism, photography, the rebuilding of Paris, modern life, Impressionism, Neo Impressionism and finally into the fractured, anxious, increasingly strange world of Post Impressionism and the fin de siècle. We moved from the Enlightenment and the revolutions that overturned the old political and social order into a nineteenth century transformed by factories, railways, colonial expansion,
The Museum Locked the Door. They Took the Walls. (opens the original)
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Latino art in the United States occupies a central place in the history of American visual culture, even though museums, collecting institutions, galleries, publishers, and conventional narratives of American art have not always recognized that centrality. During the second half of the twentieth century, artists associated with Chicano, Puerto Rican, Nuyorican, feminist, queer, labor, and diasporic communities confronted a fundamental contradiction within American cultural life. Latino communiti
Europe Looked East and Called It Modern (opens the original)
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The history of European modernism has often been organized as a succession of revolutions originating within Europe. Renaissance perspective established a powerful model for the representation of three dimensional space. European academies subsequently developed conventions governing drawing, modeling, composition, finish, subject matter, and the hierarchy of genres. During the nineteenth century, artists associated with Realism, Impressionism, and Post Impressionism increasingly challenged thos
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