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A Decade of Drawing the Metropolitan Museum's Flowers

For 10 years, artist Abbie Zabar had a ritual: go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and sketch the new floral arrangements adorning the entrance hall. Selections from her Flowers in the Great Hall of ...
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Diego Rivera’s ‘Flower Day’ Celebrates the Struggle of Post-Revolutionary Mexico—Here Are Three Things You Might Not Know About It

Mexican artist Diego Rivera casts a long shadow on the history of 20th-century art, capturing the energy of post-revolutionary Mexico with a style that improbably fused four influences: Aztec culture, ...
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A Brief, Blossoming History of Tulips in Art, From a 17th-Century Dutch Flower Craze to Koons’s Controversial Bouquet

Tulips are recognized worldwide as harbingers of spring. In New York City, they crop up along Park Avenue and throughout the city’s parks; the Srinagar Tulip Festival in Kashmir, India, is the largest ...
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The Secret Victorian Language of Flowers

Sir Edward Burne-Jones, “The Love Song” (1868–77), oil on canvas, 45 x 61 3/8 in. (courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Alfred N. Punnett Endowment Fund, 1947) The Metropolitan Museum of Art ...