Opinion
Sorry, But This Is Not "Repatriation"
The Met's deal with the Greek government to "repatriate" billionaire Leonard Stern's Cycladic art collection is not what it seems.
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News
Disgraced Art Dealer Subhash Kapoor Hit With 10-Year Prison Sentence
Kapoor led a smuggling ring charged with trafficking over 2,600 individual objects worth over $143 million.
Art
The Contentious History of a Lost Cave House in Mexico City
The destruction of “Casa Cueva,” one of Juan O’Gorman’s last architectural works, pitted two great artists against each other in one of the most divisive episodes in Mexican contemporary art history.
News
Serial Killer’s Sinister Clown Painting Fetches Over $12K at Auction
What made an auction house in Philadelphia decide to sell the art of death-row murderer John Wayne Gacy?
Film
Claire Denis's New Film Is Stronger on Steam Than Story
Just as sex with a revolutionary does not make one revolutionary, a penchant for setting films in developing countries does not make Denis a resident expert.
News
Billboard Companies Reject “Inflammatory” Art for Pro-Voting Campaign
The designs by artists Deborah Kass and Cleon Peterson were critical of the Supreme Court as well as abortion and pro-gun legislation.
News
Mexican Artists Take Over Rock Center For Day of the Dead
A catrina of Frida Kahlo, colorful alebrijes, and José Guadalupe Posada’s satirical skeletons are among the unmissable works on view.
News
Oops! Famous Mondrian Painting Hung Upside Down for 75 Years
Despite the finding, Mondrian’s “New York City I” will continue to be displayed as it has always been shown: incorrectly.
News
Should Columbia University Students Be Helping "Co-Design" Harlem?
A course titled “Co-Designing Smart Cities” has angered activists who see Columbia as a gentrifier.
Guide
Your Concise New York Art Guide for November 2022
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month, including the Latin American Art Triennial, Baldwin Lee, Triton Mobley, and more.
News
Visitors Heckle Activist Who Glues Head to Vermeer’s "Girl With a Pearl Earring"
Outraged patrons at the Mauritshuis Museum in the Netherlands responded with "obscene," "stupid," and "shut up!"
News
The Art World Reacts to Ye’s Hateful Comments
A film studio scrapped its completed documentary on Ye, artists are denouncing hate speech, and LA’s Holocaust Museum says it received threats.