In a small university town in Sweden, vandals destroyed seven large photographs, part of an exhibition titled “The History of Sex,” by the New York artist Andres Serrano
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Gallery vandals destroy photos by Andrés Serrano
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By Carol Vogel
THE NEW YORK TIMES
A grainy video of four masked vandals running through an art gallery in Sweden, smashing sexually explicit photographs with crowbars and axes to the strain of thundering death-metal music, was posted on YouTube Friday night. Read More
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Attackers left a tear close to four inches long in the painting “The Argenteuil Bridge,” at the Orsay Museum
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Intruder punches hole in a Monet in Paris
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PARIS
Intruders broke into the Musée d’Orsay early Sunday and one of them damaged a work by the Impressionist painter Claude Monet, the latest in a series of acts of vandalism and thefts at cultural sites in France. Read More
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For all its ingratiating aspects, a Renoir exhibition in Philadelphia is more than just good
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When Renoir left the parlor for fresh air
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By Roberta Smith
THE NEW YORK TIMES
PHILADELPHIA
Pierre-Auguste Renoir may be the last numbingly famous Impressionist painter whose achievements can still be fought over. There are, of course, his sensitive portraits of adults and children; enthralling images of men and women relaxing in the sun-dappled parks of Paris; lush still lifes; sparkling landscapes; and his demure yet voluptuous nudes.
But what about his saccharine images of buxom young women and apple-cheeked mothers with children? Or the acres of late nudes whose ponderous staginess looks back to Rubens and forward to Botero? The aspersion "kitsch" has been cast their way. Read More
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A guitar God’s memories, demons and all
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