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Tom Wolfe, New Journalism Bon Vivant and Critic of Modernism, Dead at 88
A powerful critic of Modernism, Wolfe was an important writer who transformed every subject he touched.
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SVA's ContinuEd Project Space Presents Kathryn Hart: Searching
The exhibition explores the search to begin anew and the burden of choice. Artist Kathryn Hart continues her dialogue with evolving identity and the hope for new beginnings amidst a maze of emotional conflict, pain, and self-doubt.
In Brief
Study of Canadian Arts Worker Salaries Finds Stagnant Growth and Shrinking Benefits
The study, the first of its kind in nearly a decade, found that arts worker salaries had barely grown at all while smaller organizations in particularly struggled to offer their employees benefits.
Opinion
Early Christians Would Have Found the Met Gala Gaudy
A historian of early Christianity with a specialty in religious dress considers how the Metropolitan Museum's recent gala and new Costume Institute exhibition might align with or offend early Christian sensibilities.
Art
The Secret Photographer Who Captured Four Decades of Life in St Petersburg
Unlike most long-lost family photos, Ivashintsova's 30,000 images show a unique aesthetic, one that she hid from her loved ones, inviting comparisons to Chicago street photographer Vivian Maier.
News
Chicago “Gun Share” Installation Visualizes Easy Access to Assault Rifles
Designed to evoke a bike-share station, the installation in Chicago's Daley Plaza calls attention to the disparate gun laws between states.
Announcement
When We Were Young, Featuring 2 New Bikes by Carlos Rolón, On View at Brookfield Place
When We Were Young explores the exquisite mix of engineering and craftmanship from cutting-edge designs to populist expressions, that moves us forward on calibrated wheels.
Art
The Dark, Unruly Brilliance of a Master of Art Informel
Jean Fautrier was a subtle, solitary, strange, serene, and even severe French painter who experienced a good deal of suspension in his saw-tooth-shaped career.
In Brief
The Spy Who Taught Me: Bulgaria Accuses Julia Kristeva of Cold War Espionage
The Franco-Bulgarian scholar, philosopher, and psychoanalyst has been accused of being a spy for the Bulgarian government in the early 1970s.
Announcement
SculptureCenter Presents 74 million million million tons, on View Through July 30
The exhibition's artists push against narratives put forth by corporate and government industries by producing specific knowledge and corroborative objects around unmapped historical and political events.
Comics
Stopping for Art and Conversation Along the High Line
I went to see Agora, a group exhibition installed at the High Line, and made my way through the crush of people.
Art
An Imagined Feminist Art School in the Amazon Jungle
Mariángeles Soto-Díaz has created a detailed archive for this imaginary school, which centers indigenous and feminist perspectives.