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A View From the Easel
“The darkness surrounding my studio has its own magic.”
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16 Acts of Artistic Resistance Happening This Weekend
The exhibitions, performances, readings, and more are just a sliver of the more than 500 events in the nationwide Fall of Freedom series.
Community
Remembering Bill Ivey, Guy Cogeval, and Marilyn A. Zeitlin
This week, we honor artists, museum directors, politicians who championed art, and others.
Art Review
A Good, Bad, and Ugly History of Parenting Gadgets
Designing Motherhood illuminates how design shapes diverse experiences of parenthood, from navigating fertility and conception to pregnancy, birth, and postpartum life.
Opinion
Maurizio Cattelan Is No Duchamp
One elevated the prosaic. The other merely gilded the familiar.
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Why Is DC’s Phillips Collection Selling Off Its Masterpieces?
The museum’s decision to deaccession works by Georgia O’Keeffe, Pablo Picasso, and more has come under public scrutiny.
Art Review
Stan Douglas Conjures Histories That Might Have Been
Through his narrative art, Douglas reminds us that every story contains the potential for history to take another course.
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Golden Toilet Fails to Make a Splash
The work sold for $12.1 million after an awkward minute during which the auctioneer attempted to draw out more bids.
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Klimt Painting Becomes Second Most Expensive Artwork Ever Sold
“Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer” sold at Sotheby’s for $236.4 million with fees.
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Six New York City Art Shows to See Right Now
Some of our favorite exhibitions, including those by Kader Attia and Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, address intimacy and healing, but we're also enjoying Monet.
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The Little Sargent Watercolor That Sold for $7M
The record-breaking sale of the artist’s “Gondolier's Siesta” shows collectors are still willing to wave their paddles for a truly exquisite specimen.
Art Review
Jacques-Louis David Knew That Style Is Political
Where art history is a subjective observer, he was on an active quest for the representational form for the “truth.”