Art
Five New York City Shows to See Right Now
From historical shows about labor to investigations of color to John Singer Sargent’s renderings of hands, we’re enjoying a variety of art this week.
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Art Review
A Collective of Lesbian Activists Is a Fierce Family
A show highlighting work by members of the collective fierce pussy presents them not out on the streets, but communing with one another, like family.
Film Review
The Darkness of Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light
One of a new documentary’s most intriguing strands is the way that brand seemed to eclipse the man, according to his own family.
Art Review
The Tender Specificity of John Singer Sargent
What comes through most strongly in the Met Museum exhibition is his humanistic bent: Sargent loved people, and it shows.
News
Smithsonian Institution Says It Won’t Remove Anti-Segregation Exhibits
The institution denied reports that objects related to the Civil Rights Movement will be removed from two museums amid Trump’s threats to erase “race-centered ideology.”
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Italian Street Artist Mocks Far-Right Attendees of the Pope’s Funeral
The artwork depicts the late pontiff from heaven, wondering “who invited” Trump and other conservative politicians the pope openly criticized in his lifetime.
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John Humble, Photographer Who Captured LA's Contradictions, Dies at 81
For five decades, Humble focused his lens on areas of the city often overlooked or dismissed, from its industrial infrastructure to its mom-and-pop storefronts.
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Child Damages Multimillion-Dollar Rothko Painting at Dutch Museum
The Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam is seeking conservation expertise after a child scratched the surface of “Grey, Orange on Maroon, No. 8” (1960).
Art Review
Exhibition at Children’s Museum Decolonizes Color
All That Remains spotlights mostly non-White artists who open up new vistas in how we might relate to color.
Art Review
The Experimental Composers Who Inspired a Generation of Artists
Arthur Russell and Julius Eastman’s influence is felt in the echoes between the present and the past, the dead and the living, and, most prominently, each other.
Book Review
The Small Magazines That Birthed Surrealism
Surrealism through Its Journals reminds us that the movement began with, and cannot be understood without, the written word.
News
Amid Market Uncertainty, Expo Chicago Brings a Spirit of Hope
Paintings that pay tribute to the art of cosplaying, sculptures celebrating Mexican artisanship, and ethereal Korean ink drawings were among the standout works at this joy-filled fair.