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In 2021, We Were There: The Year’s 14 Most Popular Dispatches
As the world reopened cautiously in 2021, our correspondents seized the chance to venture out in search of stories that…
Is Disney the Met’s Fairy Godmother?
“Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts,” which opened this month at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is…
Wayne Thiebaud, Playful Painter of the Everyday, Dies at 101
Wayne Thiebaud, the California-based painter whose lush, dreamy landscapes and luminous pictures of hot dogs, deli counters, marching band majorettes…
He Paid $30 for a Drawing. It Could Be a Renaissance Work Worth Millions.
Eleven days later, the owner texted pictures of the artwork to Mr. Schorer, who said he drove straight to the…
Joseph E. Yoakum Isn’t Who You Think
Born around 1891, the self-taught artist Joseph E. Yoakum spent most of his youth as a runaway working for traveling…
A Grim, Long-Hidden Truth Emerges in Art: Native American Enslavement
FORT GARLAND, Colo. — On a bitter, windy day, a long-overdue reckoning took place in the commandant’s quarters at Fort…