Art
An Artist's Illness Inspires a Meditation on the Power of Pain
Guadalupe Maravilla's first New York museum show resolutely harnesses the otherness of illness, while never surrendering to the notion of suffering as a totalizing narrative.
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Film
Nan Goldin Documentary Wins Top Prize at Venice
Laura Poitras’s All the Beauty and the Bloodshed follows Goldin’s fight against the Sacklers’ attempts to artwash their reputations as chief architects of the opioid epidemic in the United States.
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Announcement
What Does It Mean To Be a Native New Yorker?
The National Museum of the American Indian’s exhibition Native New York wants to change how visitors see Native people and New York State.
Art
Welcome to the Dustbin of History
Jake Scharbach's paintings dump on some iconic portraits as a way to highlight the crisis we're living through.
Art
At Independent 20th Century, Some Overlooked Masters
As I wandered this fair, I asked myself: Who is being served by the purportedly revisionist undertaking of singing the unsung?
Art
Three Lessons About Art on Paper
Paper is all about ease, comfort, and approachability, and it’s gratifying when artworks embody these values.
Art
Clio Art Fair, Where Artists Represent Themselves
The fair is a welcome reminder that a lot of people make art, and regular people should be able to buy it.
Art
True Stories From the Armory Show
At the Rolls-Royce of art fairs, I found chatty visitors, some good art, and works so bad they deserved their own section.
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Fifth Cornell Biennial Contemplates “Futurities, Uncertain”
From September 15 to 17, public events in Ithaca, New York, feature 40 artists and commissioned works by Xu Bing, Mendi & Keith Obadike, Sara Jimenez, and Paul Vanouse.
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The Jewish Museum Examines a Pivotal Period for Art and Culture in New York: 1962–1964
Featuring more than 180 works by iconic artists, the exhibition is the last project conceived and curated by the late art historian, curator, and critic Germano Celant.
Art
A Robot Dog Is Painting Self-Portraits at the 2022 Spring Break Art Fair
There's an artist currently showing in Midtown Manhattan who is teaching a machine to paint.
News
New Yorkers Roast the MTA's New "You Do You" Masking Guidelines
The puzzling new graphic calls upon us to "respect each other's choices," including wearing a mask the wrong way.