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Regarded by art critics as kitsch, her pictures sold in their millions, but she had to go to court to establish that she was the artist
Margaret Keane, the artist whose doleful, saucer-eyed waifs earned millions in an international kitsch craze a half-century ago, and who inspired an e
Her work was immensely popular and virtually ubiquitous. But until the matter was settled in court, her husband fraudulently claimed credit for it.
Born Barrie Bates in New Zealand, he became Billy Apple in London, embarking on a long career that marched through art explorations, from Pop to conceptual to self-branding.
Stuart Silver, Designer of Museum Blockbusters, Dies at 84 He helped reinvigorate the Metropolitan and made its exhibitions into crowd-pleasing spectacles, providing a model for other fine-art museums across the country. Stuart Silver in 1983 as he prepared for “The Art of the Popes,” a sprawling exhibition of Vatican art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He designed a number of hugely popular shows there. Credit...Ángel Franco/The New York Times June 9, 2021, 3:28 p.m. ET Stuart Silver, who as the inventive design director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 1960s and ’70s turn...