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The Met is under pressure to remove 'Therese Dreaming' a painting by Balthus. (Photo: Met)

Met Stands Fast Against Creeping Fascism Over Balthus Painting (Photo)

Keith GirardDecember 6, 2017

The Metropolitan Museum of Arts is standing fast against a coterie of critics, including neo-Fascists, who are demanding the removal of a Balthus painting....

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Joaquín Torres-García, Avant-Garde Modernist, Gets MoMa Retrospective

Keith GirardOctober 20, 2015

Joaquín Torres-García, a towering figure in modern art, whose influence extended from South America to Europe, will get a major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City this month. Drawings, paintings, objects, sculptures, and original artist notebooks will be featured, according to the museum. ...

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Warhol’s Double Elvis (1963) Expected to Fetch $50 Million

Keith GirardMarch 18, 2012

Elvis Presley has been worth more dead than he ever was in his lifetime, but the late pop artist Andy Warhol could send the King of Rock through the stratosphere. A Warhol painting of Elvis is expected to fetch an astronomical sum at auction. Presley is garbed in cowboy duds, with a six-gun drawn. Sotheby's described him as "a Hollywood icon of the '60s rather than the rebellious singer who shook the world of music."...

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MOMA to Display Censored David Wojnarowicz Video (watch)

Keith GirardJanuary 16, 2011

New York’s Museum of Modern Art is taking a stand for artistic freedom with a controversial exhibit of David Wojnarowicz’s video artwork “A Fire in My Belly.” Catholics and Republican lawmakers forced its withdrawal from the National Portrait Gallery in November....

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