Joan Altabe

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Award -winning art and architecture critic. Author of art histories: Off The Pedestal and Art: Behind the Scenes. Host of TV show "Critic's Choice." Listed Who's Who in American Art. A

13/2/2020

The protest murals of Bagdad don't speak of revolution as reported

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9/2/2020

'Making America beautiful again' raises AIA hackles

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4/2/2020

New Space Force logo apes old Star Trek logo

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27/1/2020

Sketch artist captures Senators' inattention at Impeachment trial

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23/1/2020

Van Gogh Museum at it again; pushing the painter as a madman

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20/1/2020

Abstract painter Mondrian unrecognizable in landscape show

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16/1/2020

Trump's change of heart to bomb Iran's monuments is half-hearted

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12/1/2020

Shouts for women's rights in NY exhibit come with a whimper

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8/1/2020

New Lucien Freud bio is a close-up portrait, warts and all

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5/1/2020

Dora Maar portrait by Picasso is vandalized at Tate Modern

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31/12/2019

New book pays homage to painter Giorgio De Chirico's poetry

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26/12/2019

Lights out at 'Rembrandt's Light' exhibition in London after attempted robbery

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15/12/2019

$550 million in additions to Lincoln Center include removing 57-year-old artwork

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12/12/2019

A banana duct-taped to a wall, at Miami's Art Basel, mocks the art world

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9/12/2019

Winning contests goes out of style in art world, Turner Prize winners say 'everybody wins'

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5/12/2019

When politics run the show at arts award ceremonies

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3/12/2019

How Trump facilitated Putin's world domination, street by street

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22/11/2019

The Met gets an early Christmas gift - a 375-picture donation worth $80 million

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18/11/2019

'Walls don't last forever' Berliners told Trump last week

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13/11/2019

How a Vienna museum show turns Renaissance art into road kill

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10/11/2019

Bridget Riley's Op Art show in London presents a dizzying optical illusion

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6/11/2019

Fifty U.S. museums plan all-female art shows for election year

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3/11/2019

Royal Academy show highlights Lucien Freud's dark side

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30/10/2019

Critic ties Rose McGowan's case, against Harvey Weinstein, to London's Gauguin show

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26/10/2019

Pelosi photo upbraiding Trump captures attention of art experts

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21/10/2019

Giant painting by female Renaissane artist debuts after 450 years

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17/10/2019

The many faces of Damien Hirst peer out from his new London exhibit

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14/10/2019

London's National Gallery exhibit re-writes art history

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11/10/2019

Jim Carrey's latest cartoon mocksTrump's phone call to Ukraine

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7/10/2019

Jeff Koons' tulip sculpture is said to reek of self-promotion

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1/10/2019

Time magazine cover art draws attention to Trump's self-incriminating Ukraine call

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26/9/2019

Octogenarian Judy Chicago faces her mortality with show on death and extinction

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23/9/2019

Magdalena Abramovicz's performance art takes the stage in her native Serbia

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21/9/2019

Charging Bull, the Wall Street sculpture, gets gored by a vandal

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13/9/2019

Another rendition of 'Mona Lisa' prompts debate in the art world

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9/9/2019

Attendance at Paris art show makes art show history

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28/8/2019

Italian court fines bridge architect $80,000 for 'gross neglience'

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24/8/2019

London's National Gallery makes a discovery in Da Vinci's 'Virgin of the Rocks'

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20/8/2019

Venice Biennale celebrates its 58th year with a giant golden statue

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16/8/2019

Suffrage sculpture proposed for Central Park whitewashes history

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25/7/2019

The politics of patronage prompts protest at Whitney Museum

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21/7/2019

Water-logged Venice faces rising sea levels without a plan

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14/7/2019

New at the Met: a Da Vinci painting he never finished

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10/7/2019

Melania honored with life-size statue in her inaugural dress

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8/7/2019

California city school Washington High to whitewash mural of black slaves

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5/7/2019

News suggests Commander-in-chief commands some free press

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1/7/2019

Despite his history of plagiarism, Damian Hirst continues to breach copyrights

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26/6/2019

Delacroix and Donald Trump stories make them the dynamic duo

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21/6/2019

Celebrating DA Vinci's 500th anniversary Louvre offers virtual experience view of Mona Lisa, Oct. 24

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17/6/2019

Controversial cartoon causes NYT International to cancel cartooning

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