For her new piece, she has combined donated art supplies a wooden pallet and artists' mannequin dolls with one of her water-damaged paintings.

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But visitors found paintings including Monet's Water Lilies and works by Picasso, Klimt and Henry Moore replaced by the message, while the details of some rooms would not load at all.

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De Kooning relished studio experiments, like mixing oil paint with water for puckered textures, or off-printing parts of wet paintings onto pages of the Times, making a mad science of beauty.

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At the Queens Museum, where the significance of water is one of the themes, several competent, if mundane, marine paintings compete with Winslow Homer's superb 1888 etching, "Perils of the Sea, " whose presence here is puzzling, since it was inspired by the artist's stay at an English fishing village.

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