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Who had the greatest impact on visual culture in 2017?

Artsy’s editors select the 25 individuals who had the biggest impact in changing the visual landscape this year.
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You may not know her name, but her celebrations of feminine freedom warrant greater recognition in art history

Long overshadowed by Picasso and Dubuffet, self-taught artist Baya had already earned acclaim for her paintings of expressive, assertive women by age 16.
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A rare glimpse of Pablo Picasso in the studio. (via NOWNESS)

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Help shed light on the industry by participating in POWarts’s survey.

POWarts, the Professional Organization for Women in the Arts, launched a new salary survey Tuesday that aims to bring transparency and data to the art industry.
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Doris Duke went to great lengths (even outbidding The Met) to build her dream collection.

Doris Duke traveled the world— and discussed art collecting with Gandhi—before building an opulent, multicultural palace in Hawaii. She dubbed it Shangri La.
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Lesson #1: Express your inner world, not the latest artistic trends.

The Bauhaus master believed that to be a true artist, you must express the inner workings of your soul and help further humanity’s march toward enlightenment.
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The history of comics—like all popular art forms—is littered with chauvinism.

In the 1970s, a group of fearless, raunchy, talented women upset the status quo of the comics world, and helped change the medium's history.
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Your iPhone owes its sleek lines and geometry to the long-lasting influence of the Bauhaus.

For Apple, as with the Bauhaus, design should be elegant, functional, true to its materials—and, above all else, simple.
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Who says you need to make it early to be an iconic artist?

Artists such as Ai Weiwei and Marina Abramović prove that there’s no age limit on when you can find success
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As you can see in her provocative series “Atmospheres,” Judy Chicago likes to play with fire.

In a series of performances involving colored smoke and fireworks, she “feminized the atmosphere,” infusing the landscape with a soft, ethereal haze.
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Whoever said “love is blind” clearly wasn’t an art lover.

Discover the perfect piece that will make your partner smile this Valentine’s day—from Tracey Emin’s romantic notes to René Magritte’s surrealist lovers.
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From MoMA to the Guggenheim, most of NYC’s great museums were founded by women.

New York City’s most influential institutions and galleries—from the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney to Art of This Century—were founded by women.
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Now you can own a little slice of Surrealism designed by the master himself.

In 1976, German lawyer Peter Ackermann bought 60,000 ceramic tiles designed by Salvador Dalí. And he didn’t have a clue what to do with them.
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Nearly 600 ways to see Jewish culture through a collection of contemporary art.

The museum’s new display has moved dramatically away from a singular Jewish narrative, instead underlining a variety of evolving traditions and experiences.
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These chilling photos are changing our visual understanding of the opioid crisis.

Rather than exoticizing or glamorizing, photographs of addicts and drug users now aim to contextualize and empower.
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She was a painter—no matter what the “medium.”

Turning bodies into paint brushes, Carolee Schneemann’s performances, films and art still startle, as a retrospective at MoMA PS1 shows.
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Rejected by the New Yorker? This site will give your artwork another life.

Three illustrators are building a repository of declined cover submissions that otherwise might have never seen the light of day.
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