Robert Hughes News
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Popularity can be a curse. Once Marc Chagall had made his name as one of the most successful artists of the 20th century, he became sentimental and repetitive.
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Rome is magnificent. It’s also a bewildering jumble of classical ruins, Baroque fountains, Fascist monuments and churches.
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Edouard Manet once took umbrage at a sarcastic remark someone made about one of his paintings. He ran the offender through the shoulder with a sword.
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Oscar Niemeyer, the prolific Brazilian architect who helped design the United Nations headquarters in New York and major public buildings in Brasilia, his country’s modernist capital, has died. He was 104.
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Charlie Rose: Remembering the recently deceased composer Marvin Hamlisch and art critic Robert Hughes
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LeRoy Neiman, the flamboyantly mustachioed painter whose vivid portraits of athletes and celebrities made him one of the best-known and most commercially successful American artists, has died. He was 91.
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There’s a certain amount of crap in the new exhibition, “ Joan Miro : The Ladder of Escape,” at Tate Modern in London.
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The old master exhibition of the year -- if not our lifetime -- is “Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan” at the National Gallery, London. And my favorite art book of the year is the catalog by Luke Syson (National Gallery/Yale $65, 40 pounds).
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Lucian Freud, the British painter of regular people in all their fleshy glory who stayed loyal to portraiture and realism even when modern art veered toward the abstract, has died. He was 88.
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Arguably, the two most celebrated U.S. visual artists of the 20th century were not Andy Warhol and Jackson Pollock , but Walt Disney and Norman Rockwell .
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