Art Review
Catherine Murphy Makes the Ordinary Inexplicable
The artist found a way to expand the parameters of observational painting, causing us to look inward and reflect upon what we see.
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Rewriting Digital Art in Nonbinary Code
Queering Digital is a refusal to be silent or retreat from the government’s tyranny through works that assert the artists’ identities and politics.
Book Review
Mary Cassatt Was Forever an American in Paris
In a new book, scholar Ruth E. Iskin emphasizes Cassatt as a distinctly transatlantic artist whose identification with the US and France were deeply entwined.
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Painting in Pompeii “Rediscovered” as Andrea Mantegna Original
Now on view in the Vatican Museums, the work was newly attributed to the Renaissance master after flying under the radar for centuries.
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Yale Center for British Art Reopens With a Lesson About Empires
As the nation’s institutions are attacked from within, the Louis Kahn-designed museum marks its return with works by JMW Turner, Tracey Emin, and more.
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Trump-Appointed Museum Agency Leader Vows to “Restore Focus on Patriotism”
Keith Sonderling’s appointment to the Institute of Museum and Library Services has caused alarm among freedom of expression advocacy groups.
Art
The Cinematic Dreaming of Ryuichi Sakamoto
The late musical colossus’s first comprehensive exhibition in the nation makes you feel like his spirit is in the room, sitting at the piano.
Art
How I’d Spend My Gen-Z Savings at New York’s Affordable Art Fair
With a budget of $3,372.30 — my Roth IRA balance — I found artworks in fish tin cans, a painting that reminded me of Bad Bunny, and more.
Guide
A Foolproof Guide to New York City Print Week
Alongside the International Fine Print Dealers Association's annual fair, a slew of shows and events pay homage to the medium, from Black artists in Mexico to printmaking’s dynamic duos.
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Champagne, Caviar, and Provenance Gaps at TEFAF Maastricht
Despite efforts to improve vetting procedures, the persistence of vague ownership points to an industry still grappling with its past.
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The Call to Return the Statue of Liberty to France, Explained
“The statue is yours, but what it embodies belongs to everyone," said French politician Raphael Glucksmann in a sharp rebuke of Trump's attacks on democracy.
Art Review
Dorothy Hood’s Landscapes of the Psyche
Labels such as “Modernism,” “Surrealism,” or “Color Field” fall away in the abstract painter’s first New York show in half a century.