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Thieves Steal Over $4.5M in Jewelry From French Museum
The morning raid at the Musée Lalique comes less than a year after the infamous heist at the Louvre.
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Art Review
In Two Chicago Exhibitions, Liberation Takes the Floor
Shows at MCA Chicago and Wrightwood 659 chart a path from colonial dispossession to the possibilities of dance, music, and community.
Art Review
The Ruthless Portraits of Elizabeth I’s Reign
An exhibition in London traces how depictions of the monarch projected an image of authority, power, wealth, and the right to be regarded as a god in all but name.
Daily Newsletter
Inside Akira Ikezoe’s Studio
The Whitney Biennial artist on humor and climate change, plus an unsung AbEx painter gets his due.
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Akira Ikezoe’s Frogs and Bears Have Something Urgent to Tell Us
The cartoonish earnestness of both artist and artwork belies a sharp attentiveness to the catastrophes unfolding around us.
Art Review
Charles Seliger Painted Nature’s Invisible Architecture
One of the youngest Abstract Expressionists, the artist charted an independent path guided by the beauty and intricacy of cellular structures.
Community
A View From the Easel With Arghavan Khosravi
“It feels like I am spending my time doing what I love.”
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Revisiting 35 Years of an Iconic Newark Artist-Led Space
Aljira championed the work of Dawoud Bey, Firelei Báez, Jeffrey Gibson, and other socially engaged artists who critiqued gentrification and capitalism.
Weekly Newsletter
Art and Resistance on the Nation’s 250th
Our stories this week are a testament to the people’s power, and a love letter to creative communities.
Daily Newsletter
Artists Reclaim Lady Liberty
Aruna D’Souza on the iconic monument as a tool of political expression and Ed Simon on the allure and anxiety of the Hudson River School.
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What Does the Statue of Liberty Stand For?
As artists like Amy Sherald, Marta Minujín, and Faith Ringgold remind us, the monument is far from a neutral symbol of so-called American values.
Opinion
The Hudson River School’s American Apocalypse
One of the United States’s first major art movements registered anxieties about industrialization, empire, and environmental ruin.