In Brief
UK Labour Leader Says He ‘Would Return Parthenon Marbles to Greece’ If Elected
If returned, the sculptures could be reunited after two centuries and settle a longstanding legal feud between Greece and the UK.
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Required Reading
This week, the best of the architecture biennial in Venice, Kerry James Marshall on Charles White, the problematic "Glendale Biennial," telling the story of the Chinatown Art Brigade, and more.
Books
For the Love of Leonardo
A slew of new books rethinks the Renaissance in general and Leonardo da Vinci in particular.
Film
An Artist’s Film Not Like the Others
We watch Ellen Berkenblit drawing. She is left-handed and uses charcoal. She rubs lines out and never looks at the camera.
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Terry Winters Draws the Shape of Space
In his best drawings, everything is keyed to the way that Winters attains difference while doing the same thing over and over.
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This Black Cloud Called Trump
Fifteen months ago, Trump was just beginning to embrace power; now he’s well into the dismantling of our democracy.
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When the Spirits Guide the Hand
An intriguing exhibition focuses on art whose makers were compelled to create it by forces greater — and far beyond — themselves.
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The Art that Flourished Under Mussolini
While unquestionably autocratic, Mussolini did not oppose the proliferation of unofficial artistic styles.
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Looking at Renoirs, Moving and Still
Not only did Pierre-Auguste and Jean Renoir share DNA, but also a muse, who was the father’s last model and the son’s future wife.
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Three Decades Distilled into 180 Portraits
Liu Wei returns to New York to show an idiosyncratic body of work that marks a radical departure from the paintings that made him a star
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Photographers Connect Africa’s Diaspora Back to the Continent
A group of contemporary artists re-imagine the African Diaspora through references to the landscape, masks, clothes, and adornments.
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An Abandoned Detroit Church Poetically and Subtly Divided in Two
Manal Shoukair's installation at Shylo Arts, a transparent scrim stretched across the entire space at about chest level, is an understated but powerful intervention.