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Sculptures Steal the Spotlight at NADA New York
At the fair's new and bigger Chelsea venue, I admired taxidermied crustaceans, homages to Puerto Rican life, and textures galore.
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Future Art Fair Enters Its Grown-Up Era
Having launched in the choppy waters of the pandemic, the show has since nestled comfortably into New York’s busiest fair week.
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Will the Real Cimabue Please Stand Up?
The Louvre’s conservation of two Cimabue paintings led its curators to reassess the artist not as a predecessor to the Renaissance masters but on his own merits.
Book Review
Internet Misinformation Is the New Medieval Magical Thinking
Readers might enjoy the gross and gory fairy-tale quality of this new book — or its parallels to the Trumpian internet.
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Required Reading
This week: plagiarizing indie media, how artist Cory Arcangel saved a digital legacy, NYC's tech boom, AI videos in courts, and more.
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Esther Art Fair Returns to a Beaux Arts Architectural Gem
For its second edition, 25 galleries from 17 cities are showing works across the sumptuous interior of New York’s Estonian House.
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A View From the Easel
“My studio currently stores all the supplies for the Queer Liberation March.”
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Papal Conclave Yields a Holy Bounty of Memes
From comparisons to the US election to speculation about where the smoke really comes from, we’re turning to humor as we contend with a possibly frightening transfer of power.
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The Next Big Thing Is at Spring Break Art Show
It has a longstanding reputation for being scrappy and DIY, but the latest edition of the New York art fair proves it can also clean up quite nicely.
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Lays Off 29 Workers
The museum union pledged to “fight back on these unjustified layoffs,” which the institution said were a response to financial challenges.
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The UCLA MFA Show Proves We’ve Got to Learn From Students
Far from perfect, their work illustrates the kind of mess, ambition, and attention that many artists would be lucky to have.
Film Review
An Artist Who Transgressed the Boundaries of the Body
“A Body to Live In” takes a multilayered perspective on artist Fakir Musafar’s life to creatively excavate his role as a pioneer of extreme body modification.