Arts & Design
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From David Hammons, a Tribute to Pier 52 and Lastingness
In 2014, the director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Adam D. Weinberg, invited the artist David Hammons to…
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4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now
Though her works on paper often drew on rules and repetitions, and though she enjoyed a close friendship with Sol…
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National Gallery of Art Reopens With a New Vision: ‘For All the People’
When the doors reopen at the National Gallery of Art on Friday, visitors may be surprised by new changes to…
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Artists in a Post-George Floyd, Mid-Pandemic World
Two shows that recently opened at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art are keyed to our new normal: One came…
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5 Things to Do This Weekend
Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually and in person in New York City. Source
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A Soaring Arts Scene in Los Angeles Confronts a Changing Landscape
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is an open construction pit these days, surrounded by 12-foot-high…
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A Gallery Featuring Only Artists of Color Feels Like Change
LOS ANGELES — People have come back again and again. They bring family members and friends. It isn’t often that…
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Puppets, Purses and Paintings, Too: An Overlooked Artist With Range
BASEL, Switzerland — Just over a century ago, during another pandemic, the Swiss Marionette Theatre in Zurich closed. The play…
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Beyond Abstract Expressionism: MoMA Rethinks the Art of the 1950s
As exhibitions go, “Degree Zero: Drawing at Midcentury” at the Museum of Modern Art is a relatively modest undertaking. After…
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For Chakaia Booker, Whose Medium Is Tires, the Art Is in the Journey
ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Chakaia Booker’s studio here is 20,000 square feet of unheated space, with a roof that leaks and…
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Five Collectives Compete for the Turner Prize
LONDON — A group that runs raves for gay, transgender and queer people of color, and an association of artists…
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On Governors Island, Art Interventions Are Everywhere
If you want respite from the moneyed, big-name glamour of some of your larger art fairs, you can, in one…
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Frieze New York, First Live Art Fair in a Year, Kicks Off at the Shed
The colossal white tent on Randalls Island — the one that occasionally threatened to uplift and blow away — is…
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3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now
Nature Morte Through May 16. The Hole, 212 Bowery at Bleecker Street, Manhattan, (212) 466-1100, theholenyc.com. For those who find…
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The Artist Upending Photography’s Brutal Racial Legacy
I’d been curious about the delicate negotiations Lawson makes with her subjects like Ms. Bell ever since I first came…
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Like Sweatpants, Squishy Furniture Is In
This article is part of our latest Design special report, which is about expanding the possibilities of your home. It’s…
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6 Design Books That Celebrate a World of Artifacts
This article is part of our latest Design special report, which is about expanding the possibilities of your home. Artisans…
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They Are Their Own Monuments
PHILADELPHIA — In a section of North Philadelphia, near an underpass and up a soaring stoop painted sky blue, Ms.…
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A 140-Year-Old Hemlock Was Lost. Now It Has New Life as Art.
GREENPORT, N.Y. — Earlier this year, an ailing 140-year-old hemlock tree died at Olana State Historic Site, the idyllic former…
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Frank Bowling’s New Paintings Are Family Affairs
LONDON — On a recent afternoon behind a scruffy door in South London, remarkable alchemical transformations were taking place under…
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