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Adrift in Betye Saar’s Crepuscular Dreamscape
The artist’s site-specific commission at the Huntington makes you feel like you’re floating in space, or suspended underwater.
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World’s Largest Van Gogh Collection Faces Uncertain Future
The artist’s namesake museum in Amsterdam says it will be forced to shutter if the government doesn’t raise its subsidies for sustainability and repairs.
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Required Reading
This week: The ethics of design, Noguchi Museum workers speak out, Native communities on the closure of “Alligator Alcatraz,” Letterboxd woes, music classes in Gaza, and more.
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Seeing New Mexico Through the Looking Glass
The 12th SITE Santa Fe International takes reflection as its cue, offering mirror images, doubles, reversals, and echoes in which multiple perspectives and timelines unfold.
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Edward Burra’s Satirical Surrealism
The painter wanted to experience the shock of strangeness, to embrace the allure of the louche, the forbidden, the disapproved of.
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A View From the Easel
“I wanted a true artist’s home — welcoming, colorful, like a cabinet of curiosities; weird, filled with me.”
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Your Guide to NYC’s Fall Art Fairs
What to see at the Armory Show and beyond — from a sceney exhibition in an office building to a beloved art book fair back at MoMA PS1.
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Is Jenny Saville the UK’s Greatest Living Painter?
Enormous in scale, Saville's uncomfortably close-cropped depictions of women’s faces and nude bodies abound in the joy of painterly modeling.
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Photographs That Depict Alzheimer's With Dignity
Alicia Vera documents and processes her mother’s disease diagnosis in a new book.
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Pennsylvania Museum Sues Trump Administration Over Grant Cuts
The president effectively dismantled the Institute of Museum and Library Services, leaving hundreds of federal fund recipients in the lurch.
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Wafaa Bilal Asks What it Means to be Arab in America
The Iraqi artist's Chicago survey show uses technology and performance to address the experience of his identity in the post-9/11 era.
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Africa Wants a More Accurate World Map
The current standard misrepresents the continent’s scale, which activists argue reinforces misconceptions about its significance.