It is quite possible, if Picasso had died the day he painted Les Demoiselles that neither he nor his painting of five awkward-looking, two-dimensional prostitutes parading their wares in front of the viewer would be any more than footnotes in the story of modern art.
Presidential campaign spots are not always folded into the story of Pop Art, but this show makes a good case that they should be, at least on the periphery.
The exhibit, an exhaustive, deep look at this decade of creative destruction, is set up like a narrative of the author's journey toward a new kind of art, and the story it tells is as absorbing as the works of art themselves.
Now two fascinating new books on Sienese painting, as well as a recent exhibition, tell the story of early Italian art from the Sienese viewpoint, full of colour, emotion and narrative detail.
In the 18 months before the Heroes debut, Cryptic's staff of 35 made the art and story come alive in 480, 000 lines of code.
Rather, it is a 'graphic memoir' in the tradition of Maus, Art Spiegelman's brilliant story of the Holocaust.
And the movie becomes tough as well as tender, a coming-of-age story that touches on the need for art, the uses of myth, the wonders of sublimation and, most potent of all, the rawness and ferocity of adolescent feeling.
The Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira, a centenarian, reaches to the world beyond for this story of mad love and self-consuming art, set in the rustic realms of the Douro wine country.
Around 8, 000 works of art are being reorganised to tell the story of the Netherlands from the Middle Ages to the present day.
The ritual performance of Dainichido Bugaku takes its name from this story, but the art evolved considerably since, reflecting local features as elders transmitted it to the young within each of the four local communities of Osato, Azukisawa, Nagamine and Taniuchi.
Lauder built it up over nearly four decades, telling the story of a movement that revolutionised modern art and paved the way for abstraction.
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The story illustrates the strength of the international art market, the power of good restoration and the fact that collectors are thirsty for quality 19th century paintings featuring exotic locales.
The movie, which was a hit at Sundance, tells the story of Thierry Guetta, a Frenchman living in Los Angeles who was filming a documentary on the world of street art, including his holy grail, Banksy.
To sell the Baccarat Residences, a 50-story glass condominium tower under construction across from the Museum of Modern Art in midtown Manhattan, a model set up in the building's showroom includes striking materials like lacquered ziricote-wood walls and a crackled bronze sculptural wall embedded with tiny pieces of glass made by a British artist.
How can you argue that video games are art, when pieces of the story are cleaved out to be sold separately?
The back story to every success story in art, science, business or true love is a long series of rejections, and the single biggest reason why we never live our dreams is the fear of failure which is just another term for fear of rejection.
Anyone looking at art auction data is only considering half of the story.
Yet what gets overlooked in this story of European modernism on the Hudson is that two-thirds of the art at the Armory was by Americans.
Mr Scafi tells this story well from the sublime start to the ridiculous end, with spectacular flourishes of art history and confident quotes from Latin, Greek and Hebrew.
Just as a good writer is best given his rope, so an art director needs conceptual room to convey the rest of the story and to integrate the assorted elements of a magazine.
Our cover story profiles a wealthy Dutch woman whose vision of fine art led her to buck the prevailing taste of her time and amass one of the world's finest collections of Van Gogh.
The Redwood String Ensemble's story lies in the stage, and - like Bernstein, Barber, and Copland - the beauty of our art lies in the truth of our identity.
The finalists were select by a panel of judges of art professionals and Departures staff members, including Richard David Story, Departures editor-in-chief.
It's a story of revolution, of dismantling, reconstructing and then coming to terms with the past, and of the function of art during tumultuous times.
Kotaku reported on the story, and soon Pitchford was on Twitter telling Moss that he inspired them and that inspiration is a big part of art.
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