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10,000 letters detailing people's hopes dangle from the ceiling in a staggering new installation by artist Chiharu Shiota https://t.co/sMfWNUxcs9 https://t.co/EdpHFs1KcF

Fuji (839-62) by Gerhard Richter #gerhardrichter

This is Isabella of Portugal. She married Philip, Duke of Burgundy, in a strategic alliance in 1428, and proved herself highly capable of governing—which she often did alone in his absence. #WomensHistoryMonth https://t.co/LPiGqqZZH2

1/3 At once richly poetic and deeply political, Alison Saar’s "Nappy Head # 1" features a Black woman's head floating on a page detached from the rest of her body—its isolation calling to mind Saar’s own sculptures. ©️ Alison Saar https://t.co/ZfCaKrcklU

What if feathers, fur, and scales were actually just flower petals and leaves? https://t.co/gZtYeOzCrk

Museums are where artworks go to die. But the Frick Madison's stunning new installation brings them back to life again: https://t.co/bingODNYw1 https://t.co/Vh6EHRRUrd

Enoch Ku's "Ordinary Sacramento" is an ongoing photo project that finds playful, unexpected scenarios in the familiar https://t.co/BPXcBds4D7 https://t.co/2GfQxg8chT

Photographer accidentally captures an amazing picture of a shooting star over an erupting volcano. https://t.co/KEfkpjjHLh

Kerry James Marshall’s "Untitled (Studio)" is full of signs and symbols that draw you into his creative process and place him in conversation with the history of painting. In our latest #Perspectives feature, dive into the painting and take a closer look. https://t.co/DXi1klnmJq

“A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun—an event first and only secondarily an image.” —#ElaineDeKooning, born #OnThisDay in 1918 🎨: "Bacchus #46" (1982), acrylic on canvas, on view in "Women Take the Floor" ©️ Elaine de Kooning Trust https://t.co/afmoN3rAWg

As Duchess of Burgundy, Isabella was skillful at negotiating treaties, fundraising, managing her subjects, and regulating trade. She played an important role in upholding their duchy’s independence and influence during the Hundred Years’ War. https://t.co/yuZu466HpT

2/3 The figure is more deity than human, an amalgamation, perhaps, of spirits borrowed from the African and Afro-Caribbean religions that Saar has studied. Much of the work’s drama is centered in the woman’s hair, which stands upright, in defiance of both gravity and propriety. https://t.co/1iNiy96MD5

See Modernism electrified in Artnet Auctions' 20th-century art sale: https://t.co/nqtf5YyRSr https://t.co/wRairvCY0Z

"Regardless of language, age, race, culture, or background, I believe Nara's art has an unusual power to not only reach a mass audience, but also evaluate the meaning of human co-existence." - Exhibition curator Mika Yoshitake Read more on the blog: https://t.co/yQzFLsahGT https://t.co/aZqUtnHKvT

A group of Yayoi Kusama works that has gone unseen for decades will come to sale in May at Bonhams https://t.co/Zw5U5ic49p