Josh Niland

Art

How the Met's Sale of a Max Beckmann Painting Changed US Museums

Beckmann's "Self-Portrait with Cigarette" belonged to the Metropolitan Museum until 1971, when its deaccession set off a series of disputes that reshaped museum practices.

Art

An Art Collector’s Dream of a String of Caribbean Museums Starts in Flatbush

It’s a long subway ride from Manhattan’s Upper East Side — where some of the world’s most ornate apartment buildings stand amid a gulch of world-class cultural institutions — to the Brooklyn neighborhood of Flatbush, where the Philip Howard Apartments loom over the patchwork of new commercial real e