masterpiece
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Facing a painting by an artist of Rembrandt’s stature can be daunting—especially a self-portrait, in which we encounter not only a masterpiece but the painter himself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
The Guardian awarded the film five stars, external, calling it "a modern masterpiece of deceit", stressing how "TV's grand illusionist meets his match when he moves in with Theranos founder and her family".
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
After all, Sorkin’s own screenplay for “The Social Network” remains a prescient masterpiece.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
The Gold Rush, the beauty of bogs, Larry David’s comedy, a Hemingway masterpiece and more from our collection of the season’s noteworthy books.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
She would have enjoyed taking credit for this masterpiece.
From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson
In 1990, two men disguised as police officers spent 81 minutes crisscrossing Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to cut out and carry off masterpieces by Vermeer and Rembrandt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Two of the masterpieces stolen from the Renoir Museum in Cagnes-sur-Mer, a suburb of Nice, have yet to be recovered.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
How could a civilization boasting gold and bronze masterpieces, jadeworking and silk production seemingly disappear overnight, leaving no written record or human remains?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
The National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art holds the country's largest collection of Italian and international art from the 19th and 209th centuries, including masterpieces by Giorgio de Chirico, Amedeo Modigliani and others.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
His paintings were gorgeous abstract masterpieces, and people were comparing him to the masters.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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