Art Review
One Man’s Trash Is Another’s Art
An exhibition argues that human production — its surplus and waste — is a rising influential force in contemporary art.
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Global Tourism Was Built on Headless Blemmyes
The Book of Marvels is the kind of show that’s hard to avoid at archival art institutions, wherein problematic historical content, aesthetic appeal, and fantasy all intersect.
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Schomburg Center Turns 100 With an Art Historical Library Card
The New York Public Library’s limited-edition design features late artist Houston Conwill’s cosmogram “Rivers,” inspired by a 1921 Langston Hughes poem.
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A.I.R. Gallery Seeks Community’s Help After Losing $30K NEA Grant
The cuts jeopardize the feminist collective’s long-running residency program for women and nonbinary artists.
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An Exhibition That Looks to the Bronx for Inspiration
“Working Knowledge” is deeply attuned to the Bronx community it emerges from — an attentiveness that greatly enhances its significance.
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Koyo Kouoh, Curator Tapped for 61st Venice Biennale, Dies at 57
The museum director would have been the first African woman to oversee the Biennale.
Book Review
A Mystical, Obsessive Encounter With the Ginseng Root
Craig Thompson’s rhizomatic new graphic novel about the root’s farming industry exposes the paradoxes of Trump’s America.
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TEFAF New York Is a Cabinet of Curiosities
From lesser-known Meret Oppenheim works to Anna Weyant’s jewel-box paintings, this over-the-top New York fair is rich with gems waiting to be discovered.
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Conversation Flows at 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair
In the heart of the financial district, over 70 artists from across the African diaspora showed works to an eager VIP audience.
Features
A Late Feminist Sculptor Who Plumbed the History of Human Migration
Mary Ann Unger's massive biomorphic artworks, now on view in New York City, are shockingly prescient and powerful now more than ever.
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Downtown New York Shines at the Independent Art Fair
The invite-only fair includes downtown stalwarts, as well as emerging Tribeca galleries.
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Who Says You Have to Leave Brooklyn to Go to an Art Fair?
Across the bridge, away from the perhaps buzzier Manhattan shows, The Other Art Fair and Conductor offer intimate opportunities to engage with artists.