Interview
Beer With a Painter: Rina Banerjee
“When you give up that power to the paint, it becomes your partner, helping you to make something beautiful,” said the Bengali-American artist at her studio in Dumbo.
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Heatwaves in France Damage Beloved Flowers at Monet’s Gardens
Gardeners at the painter’s home and garden in Giverny said that nasturtiums will have to be replanted for next year’s bloom.
Art Movements
Wolf Kahn Foundation Opens New Space in NYC
A permanent home for the artist’s archives, MoMA PS1 is getting a new café, which museum scored a sweet early Rothko, and more in Art Movements.
Daily Newsletter
A Progressive Win for Artists in Florida
Angie Nixon’s track record in culture, MIT loans art to students, the Speed Museum returns Native artifacts, and more.
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Speed Art Museum Returns 24 Native Artifacts to Oklahoma Tribes
The culturally significant objects include a turtle amulet, a Cheyenne cradle board, and a slate of beaded bags.
In Memoriam
Remembering Bou Meng, Mary Heilmann, and Kumantjayi (Walala) Tjapaltjarri
This week, we honor a figurehead of genocide remembrance, a pioneering abstract artist, and an Aboriginal Australian painter.
Book Review
Haroutiun Galentz’s True Colors
A new book traces the function of color as both a mask and a mirror in psychological portraits by the modernist painter, who lost his parents during the Armenian Genocide.
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Angie Nixon, Champion of Black Art and Culture, Wins Florida Senate Primary in Upset
The 42-year-old Jacksonville native and Democratic Socialist founded the local community bookstore Cafe Resistance and co-authored a comic book with her daughter.
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MIT Students Can Now Borrow Works by Jennie C. Jones and Nayland Blake
The MIT List Visual Arts Center added nine new works to the Student Lending Collection for the program's 49th anniversary.
Daily Newsletter
The Kristi Noem Statue Nobody Asked For
Today, two very different visions of civic life: the care and repair of the Medina Triennial, and a sculpture in celebration of a reviled former Homeland Security secretary.
Art Review
Art as Infrastructure at the Medina Triennial
The inaugural edition of the sprawling yet rigorous exhibition examines the labor, regulation, extraction, and repair of our shared systems.
New York Newsletter
Who Stole the Guggenheim’s Picasso?
The museum sues to retrieve a piece stolen in 1961, Dean Millien’s aluminum-foil animal sculptures, and more.