Art
Firelei Báez Paints Away the World’s Borders
The artist reminds us that maps advance the fiction that we could treat the earth as an object to be measured, cut up, and extracted from without consequences.
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10 Art Shows to See in New York This January
This month: Kelly Sinnapah Mary, Cynthia Lahti, the Met Museum’s rehung galleries, and more.
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Inside the NYC Plastics Shop Beloved by Artists
For nearly 50 years, Canal Plastics Center has enticed artists, designers, and architects in need of acrylic swaths at a fraction of the price of metal and glass.
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24 Exceptional Subway Artworks to See in NYC
You don’t need to visit a gallery or museum to experience the works of well-known artists, from Romare Bearden in the Bronx to Katherine Bradford in Manhattan.
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New Anti-Money Laundering Law Can Send Self-Employed Artists to Jail
Luckily, it can be avoided by filling out a simple form.
Art
The Resounding Talents of a Quiet Renaissance Master
Perhaps Pesellino lacked a certain ferocity of ambition — those who choose not to shout from the rooftops often fail to get heard.
Film
New York Jewish Film Festival Returns for 33rd Edition
The lineup of 28 feature, documentary, and short films and discussions with filmmakers kicks off on January 10.
Books
7 Art Books to Start the New Year
From an artist’s moving children’s book to an index of Indigenous North American type, add these art titles to your 2024 reading list.
Art
Tracing the Hand of Botticelli
Botticelli’s drawings bring us tantalizingly close to the artist, a man as clouded by intimations of darkness, and seeking some salve of beauty, as we are today.
Art
Required Reading
This week, a futuristic bookstore, social media and art amid Russia’s war on Ukraine, ancient Greek napkins made of dough, Claudine Gay’s resignation, and more.
Art
Understanding Shakira’s New Sculpture Through Her Song Lyrics
The artwork’s hips definitely do not lie, but its face might.
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Kameelah Janan Rasheed Embraces the Unknowable
Her multidisciplinary practice takes text as a point of departure, stripping away layers of meaning until only the marks remain.