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Norman Rockwell ‘Four Freedoms’ exhibit opens this weekend

NEW YORK (AP) — An exhibit featuring Norman Rockwell's iconic "Four Freedoms" paintings is opening this weekend. The New-York Historical Society announced Tuesday that "Rockwell, Roosevelt & the Four Freedoms" will run from May 25 to Sept. 2. It will then tour everywhere from Houston to Normandy, France, by the fall of 2020. Rockwell's 1943...

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Artist Robert Indiana poses Thursday, Aug. 29, 2008 at his studio in Vinalhaven, Maine. Indiana, who in the 1960s created the pop icon LOVE, now has created a similar image with HOPE, with proceeds going to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. (AP Photo/Joel Page) MEJP101

May 21, 2018 at 5:22 pm

Robert Indiana, who turned ‘Love’ into enduring art, dies at 89

The image of the word L-O-V-E in colorful capital letters, with the first two letters stacked on top of the other two, and the letter...

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Vishavjit Singh speaks with Taho Kakutani, a Fishmonger at Pike Place Fish Company, about his performance art on Tuesday, May 5, 2018. Singh uses his costume to open conversations with others about being Sikh in America. (Corinne Chin / The Seattle Times)

May 15, 2018 at 6:00 am

Sikh Captain America fights intolerance and bigotry WATCH

Vishavjit Singh draws cartoons and dons a Captain America costume to help fight intolerance and bigotry. He visited Seattle earlier this month to launch an...

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May 9, 2018 at 3:16 am

Picasso canvas sells for $115 million at record-breaking Christie’s auction

With a flurry of bids on Tuesday evening, Christie's jumped into the record books. This week, the New York City auction house is hosting a...

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May 4, 2018 at 6:53 pm

Alaska prison art program benefits inmates, nonprofits

The Sealaska Corp. sponsors the carving program and takes many of the pieces the artists create and donates them. The paddles, masks and other pieces...

FILE — Judith and Gerson Leiber at their place in East Hampton, N.Y., in November of 2016. Judith Leiber, the handbag designer whose whimsical creations were prized as collectors’ pieces, died of a heart attack at the age of 97 on Saturday, April 28, 2018, at her home on Long Island, just hours after the death of her husband of 72 years, the artist Gerson Leiber. Known as Gus, he was noted for energetic, lyrical and colorful abstract paintings. He also died of a heart attack at their home, on Saturday, April 28, 2018, at the age of 96.(Lindsay Morris/The New York Times)

May 4, 2018 at 4:00 pm

Gerson Leiber, 96, dies; artist created museum with designer wife

The tight-knit couple died hours apart, of natural causes.

May 4, 2018 at 7:46 am

London man denies damaging $3M painting at Aspen gallery

ASPEN, Colo. — A London man denies accusations that he slashed a $3 million painting at an Aspen art gallery last year. The Aspen Times...

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May 3, 2018 at 5:43 pm

Judith Leiber, 97, dies; turned handbags into objets d’art

Judith Leiber died just hours after the death of her husband of 72 years, the painter, lithographer and sculptor Gerson Leiber.

May 3, 2018 at 4:41 am

Ex-Beatle Paul donates Linda McCartney photos to V&A museum

LONDON — The Victoria & Albert Museum says Paul McCartney has donated 63 photographs taken by his late wife Linda to the museum's new photography...

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May 2, 2018 at 4:02 pm

Hobby Lobby forced to return artifacts to Iraq VIEW

The priceless artifacts entered the United States seven years ago in packages labeled "tile samples" that were shipped to several Hobby Lobby locations. On Wednesday,...

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Wed. April 25, 2018. One of the galleries on the Nordic exhibits side of the Nordic museum. 206085

April 30, 2018 at 6:00 am

‘Mad dash to the finish’ as Seattle’s new Nordic Museum prepares for its grand debut VIEW

The Ballard museum opens May 5 with a grand ambition: telling the tales of 12,000 years of Nordic and Nordic-American life. Those stories are relevant...

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