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FILE - In this July 6, 2020, file photo a ground mural depicting a portrait of Breonna Taylor is seen at Chambers Park, Monday, July 6, 2020, in Annapolis, Md. Americans' suggestions of suitable statues for President Donald Trump's planned National Garden of American Heroes are in, and they look considerably different from the predominantly white worthies that the administration has locked in for many of the pedestals. Lehigh County, Pennsylvania Commissioner Amy Zanelli, suggested George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other Black Americans whose killings by police sparked massive street protests. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Review: Breonna Taylor and the grim power of Vanity Fair’s unflinching cover portrait

September 1, 2020 at 10:35 a.m.

Scrubs. That's the word that came immediately to mind when I first saw the remarkable cover to the remarkable September issue of Vanity Fair, whose guest editor, the formidable Ta-Nehisi...

"The Virgin Mary with Saints Thomas Aquinas and Paul," about 1335; tempera and gold leaf on panel by Bernardo Daddi, active about 1312-1348, and Taddeo Gaddi, active about 1300-1366.

Column: Bubonic plague in Europe changed art history. Why coronavirus could do the same

March 30, 2020 at 8:41 a.m.

Plagues have a way of focusing the mind. Just ask Millard Meiss. I admit, that's a guy I haven't thought of in ages. Meiss (pronounced Meese) was a celebrated art...

Orazio Gentileschi, "Danae," 1621-23, oil on canva

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is a bad idea. Here’s why

May 22, 2019 at 10:59 p.m.

The ginned-up contest between Los Angeles and San Francisco to lure filmmaker George Lucas and his long-aborning Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is done. Los Angeles lost by winning. The...

A visitor looks at paintings of former First Lady Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, from Andy Warhol's series "Jackie, 1964" in Bogota. )

Andy Warhol’s ‘Jackie’ works were his ‘Guernica’

April 5, 2019 at 3:06 p.m.

For art, the 1963 murder of a president became America's Guernica. In style, emotional tenor and generation, Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol were very different artists. But both made paintings...

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