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8 Standout Art Books to Gift (or Keep) This Season
23 November 2025 @ 12:01 pm
Eight new releases distill what’s exciting in visual culture right now, spanning architecture, contemporary art, fashion, and more.
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How Henry VIII’s Lost Ship Was Recovered—Still Packed With Thousands of Tudor Treasures
23 November 2025 @ 12:00 pm
The Mary Rose holds a Guinness World Record for the most medieval weaponry recovered from a single shipwreck.
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John Singer Sargent’s Market Has Hit a 20-Year High. Here’s Why
23 November 2025 @ 11:00 am
The average price per lot for the artist's work is up 1,800 percent as two paintings soared past their estimates at Christie's.
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Manar Abu Dhabi Returns With a Show of Dazzling Public Art
22 November 2025 @ 2:00 pm
With 22 site-specific light installations across islands, mangroves, and oases, Manar Abu Dhabi traces a luminous route through the emirate.
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Who Was the First Artist to Work Outdoors? The Radical Origins of Plein Air Painting
22 November 2025 @ 12:00 pm
Plein-air painting was a radical move away from the studio—here's what drove artists outdoors.
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Klimt, Kahlo, and a Comeback? New York’s Auctions, Recapped
22 November 2025 @ 8:13 am
With billion-dollar results at Sotheby’s and Christie’s, signs of recovery emerge—but caution still lingers.
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Sotheby’s $304.6 Million Triple Play of Modern Art: By the Numbers
22 November 2025 @ 1:26 am
Blockbuster lots by Vincent van Gogh and Frida Kahlo fueled the big-ticket affair.
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How Sculptor Tom Price Finds Meaning in Material Experiments
21 November 2025 @ 10:30 pm
The artist discusses the fruits of his material investigations and the intrinsic connection between figuration and abstraction in his work.
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This Empress Had the Most Famous Hair in the World—What Her Ravishing Portrait Reveals
21 November 2025 @ 8:55 pm
This 19th-century portrait of Empress Elisabeth of Austria is garnering renewed attention thanks to a scene in Guillermo del Toro's 'Frankenstein'.
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Rare Rembrandt Print Discovered in a Drawer Could Fetch Thousands at Auction
21 November 2025 @ 8:39 pm
The work was uncovered by Edward Barlow while looking through his father's papers.
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