This is Rose Valland, one of the heroes of Nazi-Occupied France. An employee of the Louvre, she kept records of the art stolen by Nazi officers—what was taken, from where, and by whom. She was instrumental in the postwar return of countless stolen pieces, and one of the most decorated women in French history.
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February 1987 (age 28)
“There’s a kind of slowness and inefficiency about rendering text in paint. We’re in a world that’s very fast, so things that slow you for a minute—give you pause—are good.”
—Glenn LigonGlenn Ligon, our current 100 Artists featured artist, discusses his interest in rendering text in paint. Seen here is opening night of the 2011 Glenn Ligon: AMERICA exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, as featured in the Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 6 episode, History (2012).
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Bill Brandt 1948-57.
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"And the portrait show seems to have no faces in it at all, just paint
you suddenly wonder why in the world anyone ever did them" - Frank O'Hara
