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What’s 'Offensive' Art? The Answer Isn’t Black And White
The painting is eerie, almost indistinguishable from a black and white photograph. Standing on a bluff above a distant city is a nighttime gathering of hooded Ku Klux Klansmen, illuminated by the ...
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Rare 17th-Century Painting of Black and White Women Debuts After Export Ban
An exceptionally rare 17th-century painting featuring a Black woman and a white woman side by side has gone on public display for the first time at Compton Verney, a historic manor in the English ...
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One black-and-white marvel after another – Monochrome: Painting in Black and White, National Gallery, review
A show restricted to painting in black and white? What an austere, hair-shirt proposition. How delightful to report, then, that Monochrome is, in fact, a smart and classy, fascinating affair ...
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‘Extremely rare’ 17th-century painting of Black woman with White companion placed under export bar from UK
A 17th-century painting showing a Black woman with her White companion has been placed under a temporary export bar to reduce the risk of the artwork leaving the United Kingdom. The anonymous ...
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UK Bans Export on a Rare Painting Featuring a Black and White Woman
“This anonymous painting is a great rarity in British art, as a mid-seventeenth-century work that depicts a black woman and a white woman with equal status,” said RCEWA members Pippa Shirley ...
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A 17th-Century Double Portrait of Black and White Women, Said to Be of ‘Outstanding Significance’ Will Remain in the U.K.
A remarkably unique 17th-century double portrait depicting a Black and white woman side-by-side as ... The painter of Allegorical Painting of Two Ladies has not been identified, but the work ...
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‘Extremely rare’ 17th-century painting of Black woman with White companion placed under export bar from UK
A 17th-century painting showing a Black woman with her White companion has been placed under a temporary export bar to reduce the risk of the artwork leaving the United Kingdom. The anonymous ...