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Reflecting on Shirin Neshat’s Career With the Artist’s Words
Neshat shares why she moved away from still photography to video, and why she thinks her work feels “very relevant” today.
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NYPL Announces the 10 Most Borrowed Books in Its History
The Snowy Day, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, and 1984 are among the most popular books in the library's 125-year history.
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Required Reading
This week, Uber and Hyundai create a new air taxi prototype, an unlikely figure helped make the Met Museum more democratic, another look at Leonardo's role in "Salvator Mundi," a list of Black artists and writers in Appalachia, and more.
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When the Exhibition Becomes a Work of Art
Who would have thought that still lifes would create such a strong reaction?
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A Private Memoir, Pried Open
Charlotte Salomon’s Life? Or Theater? is the story of a difficult and painful redemption through art.
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When You Can't Go Home Again: Immigrants and Artists Reflect
This exhibition at ICA/Boston presents works by 20 contemporary artists — many of them immigrants or members of the African diaspora — that highlight current migration events.
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Nature Offers the Best Designs at the Cooper Hewitt Triennial
Objects on display designed to be green substitutes for those that are ecologically harmful or failing are among the most thought-provoking in this exhibition.
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Mondrian Before Abstraction
Decades before becoming New York’s Pied Piper for nonobjective art, Piet Mondrian had established a reputation in Europe for navigating and remaking realism in his own image.
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Keeping it Odd — and Real — at the 2020 Outsider Art Fair
With a broader, more international scope, this year’s gathering will offer fresh discoveries at every turn.
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What the New York Art World Is Missing
What is striking about Jiha Moon’s work is that it does not quite fit into the New York art world’s current concerns with racial and ethnic identity because, as far as I can tell, this art world has never addressed issues of Asian cultural dislocation.
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Governor Cuomo’s Bizarre Poster Illustrates His Vision of New York State in 2020
A new image, conceived by the New York State Governor, is a mess.
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A Musician’s Fictional, Indistinct Futures Take the Shape of a Novel
Leaning into the imaginative possibility of text, Félicia Atkinson’s A Forest Petrifies: Diamond Feedback grafts a poetic, discursive dialogue that fills in the detailed sonic worlds of her recent album.