It’s hard to get excited for another Pablo Picasso exhibition. He is, after all, the Steven Spielberg of European modernism — flashy, prolific, proficient at a vast range of genres, and overrepresented in the mainstream cultural canon.
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Harlem’s Studio Museum Taps David Adjaye to Design $122M Expansion
Visitors to the Studio Museum in Harlem have long been struck by its small size.
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A Sculptural Sequel for Blockbuster Movie Miniatures
The Swiss Institute’s basement gallery space looks like the set for an avant-garde science fiction movie right now.
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Protesters Infiltrate Tony NYC Restaurant to Remind Patrons #BlackLivesMatter
On Friday a collective known as Never 21 staged a performance and action at the 21 Club, a high-end eatery in Midtown Manhattan, calling attention to the police killings of black youth.
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The Calm and Controversy of 12 Horses in an Art Gallery
For a gallery with 12 horses and a line of visitors stretching out the door, Gavin Brown’s enterprise is exceptionally hushed.
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MoMA Workers Vote to Approve New Contract
On Monday evening, employees of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) who are members of the United Autoworkers Local 2110 voted to approve a new three-year contract that was offered by the museum’s administration on Friday.
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After Years of Controversy, Cooper Union President Jamshed Bharucha Resigns
On Wednesday evening, a day after five of his staunchest supporters on the Cooper Union’s board of trustees resigned, the college’s embattled president Jamshed Bharucha announced that he will resign at the end of June.
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Facing Healthcare Cuts, Museum of Modern Art Staff Protest Outside Fundraising Gala
This evening, as trustees and VIPs arrived at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) for its annual “Party in the Garden” gala, they were greeted by dozens of the museum’s staff brandishing signs that read “Modern Art, Ancient Wages” and “MoMA, Don’t Cut Our Healthcare.”
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Parsing the Collective Design Fair’s Peculiar Objects
Visiting Collective Design amid all of Frieze Week’s art fairs is doubly refreshing: it’s an unabashed celebration of beautiful objects and you can touch (almost) all of them.
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The New Whitney Museum, a Machine for Looking at Art — and Being Seen Looking at Art
In 1977, Jean Baudrillard published his take on a shiny new art museum that had just opened in Paris.
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Mannequin Designer Ralph Pucci’s Playful Humanoids
Ralph Pucci, a high-end mannequin and furniture designer, has collaborated with a wide range of artists throughout his career, producing unorthodox renditions of mannequins since the 1970s.
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At the New Whitney Museum, America Is Actually Very Easy to See
The inaugural exhibition at the new Whitney Museum of American Art, which opens to the public today, is predicated on the elusiveness of a cohesive and stable national identity in the United States.
