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Instead of a goodbye Luka, it’s a thank you,” said Armando Aguirre, one of the artists who worked on the mural in the Tin ...

“The Velazquez Mystery” plumbs his genius. “Velázquez was a double genius, from a technical point of view, but also how he changed the rules, putting himself inside the paintings and ...