New York Newsletter
Your Ultimate NYC Fall Art Guide
The best shows to see this season, The Met’s John Galliano exhibition is nixed, and why your City Bike might run slower in certain neighborhoods.
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Feature
How Fannuh Baskets Connect Liberia to the US Lowcountry
Gullah Geechee basket-weaving is rooted in an oral tradition carried by enslaved people from Liberia’s Windward Coast.
Daily Newsletter
John Galliano Withdraws From Met Show
The British designer was convicted of antisemitic and anti-Asian hate speech. Also: What was Peter Thiel doing at a VIP preview at the British Museum, and should we be scared?
Performance
"Marina" Dares You to Laugh at Technology
Julio Torres and Martine Gutierrez's new performance is a grotesque parade of visual delights that defangs our toxic relationship to our screens.
Book Review
Jennifer Higgie’s Empathetic Elegy for Richard Dadd
In “Bedlam,” the author and art critic does not describe the English painter’s often-sensationalized mental deterioration. Instead, she writes the novel in his voice.
Feature
Catherine Murphy Has Her Cake and Eats It Too
The painter reconciles modernist conventions like the grid with one-point perspective, creating something fresh and entirely her own.
News
What in the Devil Was Peter Thiel Doing at the British Museum?
For reasons that remain unclear, the London museum hosted the Palantir founder at a VIP preview of the Bayeux Tapestry.
News
John Galliano Withdraws From Met Exhibition After Backlash Over Racist Comments
The British fashion designer was convicted of a hate crime in 2011 for anti-Asian and antisemitic remarks.
Daily Newsletter
Seeing Krasner and Pollock Together
Lia Strasser on what she got wrong about the AbEx couple, art world homages to Yayoi Kusama, and another museum heist?!
Weekly Newsletter
Maybe This Fall Will Be Kind
Yayoi Kusama, Sliman Mansour, and Dolly Parton pass away, and a major Pompeii show comes to the US.
News
Thieves Snatch $4.6M Diamond Necklace From Viennese Museum
The two thieves paid entry before stealing the 673- white diamond necklace that once belonged to Queen Nazli of Egypt.
Art Review
The Belgian Exhibition That Strives to "Decenter" the West
With two contradictory briefs — to both decenter Europe and show Bruges’s centrality in international networks — an exhibition on the Belgian city is already off to a bumpy start.