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Week in Review: Art Basel Backer Fined $4.2B for Tax Fraud, Art Schools Hit with ADA Lawsuit
Also, Ai Weiwei’s contribution to the film Berlin, I Love You was pulled, an ivory trader has been sentenced to 15 years in prison, and more.
The Latest
Joan Miró’s Studio Reopens with a Refreshed Perspective
Miró’s studio, named the Taller Sert, was his refuge, and a place where the artist created some of his most important work.
In Brief
Sackler Scion Doesn’t Think the Opioid Epidemic Her Family Profited From Should Impact Her
Responding to a New York Times story about her fashion brand, Joss Sackler accused the publication of “patriarchal efforts” aiming “to undermine women’s empowerment.”
Art
Queens International Speaks Volumes About a Borough that Welcomes the World
The Queens Museum’s biennial exhibition offers an assortment of work that considers the politics of art-making in the borough today
In Brief
Ivory Queen Nabbed by Tanzanian Authorities
Ivory Queen is sentenced to 15 years in prison for smuggling $5.6 million-worth of ivory from Tanzania to China.
Film
How Merce Cunningham Worked with Filmmakers to Make the Camera Dance
A series of films installed on the High Line make the camera an intimate actor in experimental dance.
Film
I Am Cuba, Restored and Reimagined
Newly restored and screening tonight, I Am Cuba raises questions about the ways film negotiates authenticity.
Metropolitan Museum Acquires Peter Doig Painting, and a Meteorite Sells at Auction
Plus, the Saint Louise Art Museums acquires a Kehinde Wiley painting, and the V&A acquires Ivan Kyncl’s theatre photography archive.
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Design by Time Opens at Pratt Manhattan Gallery
Curated by Ginger Gregg Duggan and Judith Hoos Fox of c2-curatorsquared, Design by Time is on view February 22 to April 13, 2019.
Interactive
An AR Installation Submerges the Whitney Museum in a Coral Reef of Plastic Debris
Tamiko Thiel’s “Unexpected Growth” is an augmented reality installation on the future of oceans and climate change.
Art
A Museum Gains Prominence Through Collecting Native American Artists’ Work
A gem of a museum in Ohio known for European masterpieces, gains contemporary relevance.
Art
Curators Experiment with Scale, Bringing New Life to the Jim Crow-era Photography of Hugh Mangum
A concise show of photographs printed for impact, at an enlarged scale and in color, magnifies questions about race in the United States.