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#WorkOfTheWeek is 'Holes' by Japanese artist Shozo Shimamoto, a co-founder of avant-garde group 'Gutai'. The group's radical ideas and approaches anticipated performance and conceptual art of the 1960s and 70s. Read about how the work was made ➡️ https://t.co/ICGYKeH3KH https://t.co/sq4KG7UUKo

Ada Katz is Alex Katz's wife and most iconic subject. Here, she assumes the glamour of a mid-century film star. Protectively encircled by both the umbrella and a silk headscarf, rain spills around her in stylized tear-drop forms. #AlexKatzGathering 📷: "Blue Umbrella 2," 1972. https://t.co/YWjCCj2Jf1

My Taxes go Here, Oil on Cardboard, Me, 2022.

Waiting for Dinner © Vicky Mount https://t.co/lCFzOkFCBX

Starting next year, Germany will offer 18-year-olds €200 stipends to use at museums, concerts, and other cultural venues: https://t.co/abPnE3XBnw https://t.co/oYIwZ4GLfT

Georgia O'Keeffe—born November 15, 1887—often depicted the Southwest. ⁣⁣⁣ But what, and who, was left out of her artworks? ⁣ In this month's #MetSpotlight, Indigenous scholars Patricia Norby and Matthew Martinez unpack these omissions. https://t.co/LL0AuHez9f

...But wait, there's more! If you've already visited "Kimono Style: The John C. Weber Collection," it's time to come back—to preserve and showcase the many works in the collection, more than 50 textiles are newly on view in the exhibition. Learn more: https://t.co/4UKlObXktf https://t.co/rXKzjzVgkP

How did Maya artists create ceramics and paints? What kinds of aesthetic ideals informed their techniques? Can we identify different workshops, potters, and painters? https://t.co/Y2P4XsSumq

This woven structure surrounding a tree has become a cozy refuge among the thawing spring landscape 🌳 https://t.co/1Lg8jv4prD https://t.co/Yisd3LznpX

Georgia O’Keeffe made flowers monumental. Typically small, ephemeral and everyday, in her work they become a site for modernist experiments in scale and color. 🎂 The artist was born #OnThisDay in 1887. 🖼️: "White Rose with Larkspur No. 2" (1927). © Artist Rights Society (ARS) https://t.co/f8g1ZudYNJ

Sotheby’s $391 million modern art double-header signals enduring strength in the art market, despite fears of a recession: https://t.co/bD4VnngB3h https://t.co/s37j0NasZD

For over a decade, Michel Majerus created an intensely prolific body of work before dying in a tragic plane accident. The latest investigative iteration of his work will open at the @icamiami on November 29, 2022 👉 https://t.co/dtBLoFFBTG https://t.co/ciq3sCoGkD

Relive this summer’s “Persia After Hours” at the Getty Villa, three evenings dedicated to celebrating contemporary Iranian performers who are inspired by Iran’s past. https://t.co/2f5MG5dpHo

"Exodus," an exhibition of new works by Anselm Kiefer, opens on Saturday, November 19, at Gagosian at Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles. The show is also on view in New York at the gallery's 555 West 24th Street location: https://t.co/V43wtjlXFD https://t.co/KqJfWrp88z

Climate activists throw "black, oily liquid" at a Klimt painting in Vienna in second attack in the city in a week: https://t.co/bQBVazShoc https://t.co/1evCqLyJg7