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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…
Best Art Books of 2021
In a lockdown year, with travel reduced, there was no movable feast quite like an art book. Art is made…
Met Museum Removes Sackler Name From Wing Over Opioid Ties
In the wake of growing outrage over the role the Sacklers may have played in the opioid crisis, the Metropolitan…
Painter of Elijah Cummings Portrait Finds It’s a Career-Changer
One Baltimore son has painted another.When Representative Elijah E. Cummings died in October 2019 at age 68, he became the…
The Wandering Creativity of Sophie Taeuber-Arp
There’s an object in the Museum of Modern Art’s retrospective of the Swiss polymath Sophie Taeuber-Arp that’s so covetable I…