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When Julie Mehretu was first approached to design the BMW Art Car, she wasn’t sure she was ready for the challenge. “I was really concerned about taking on a project like this and I didn’t think I ...

Up close, Julie Mehretu’s large-scale paintings are formidable in their detail—the masterful layers of small marks filling 15- or 20-foot expanses of canvas. They are especially impressive for viewers ...

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The artist’s unprecedented gift to the museum has made admission free for all visitors under 25.

Julie Mehretu, an Ethiopian American artist known for her multilayered contemporary paintings, has long experimented with elements of movement and density in her large-scale works. But her next canvas ...

REDCAT Gallery, is an intriguing and, to a certain degree, befuddling cultural event. It reveals the insatiable hunger of the art world for anointing new stars, needed for proliferating international ...

The artist Julie Mehretu, 51, likes to work on a grand scale. A silent short film by the British artist Tacita Dean shows Ms. Mehretu at work on her monumental painting “Mural” at the New York ...

Julie Mehretu must see art the way Einstein saw math or Mozart music. She must observe her canvases with a level of depth and complexity the scope of which can scarcely be comprehended. Her genius ...

Over the past 50 years, artists including Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, Jenny Holzer and Robert Rauschenberg have been chosen by the luxury car company to use a BMW as their canvas, each adorning one of ...