Pocket Review
The Armory Show in One Sentence
This year's edition seemed awfully quiet and downcast, making the financial sector trade show on the floor below seem like a riot in comparison.
New York
Feature
Independent 20th Century, the Mise en Abyme of Art Fairs
Despite the mind-boggling amount of spectacular works on view, I was reminded at each turn that the Breuer Building has been turned into an art mall.
News
El Museo del Barrio Apologizes for Renting Space for 9/11 Conspiracy Event
The Harlem institution said it was "not aware of the full program, content and speaker list for this event.”
Feature
What Can Photographs Say in a World Full of Images?
An exhibition at the Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College examines how artists utilize serial configurations of pictures and text to prompt questions about seeing.
News
The Met to Present First Major Felix Gonzalez-Torres Show in NYC in Decades
Scattered across the museum's permanent collection galleries, "The Spaces Between" brings together more than 40 works from the late conceptual artist.
News
An Unequal Artist Legacy Field Defines Who Gets to Be Remembered
A new report from the Joan Mitchell Foundation highlights deep structural issues affecting legacy work across the arts.
Pocket Review
Thomas Hart Benton's Sanitized American Idyll
His ambition to capture the full experience of living in the United States had its limits.
News
Met Museum Brokers Return of Three Artworks to Nigeria
Collector Ceil Pulitzer provided detailed provenance of the works, but the museum preferred another route.
News
Duo Calls to Oust Leon Black in Protest Outside MoMA
The protesters handed out zines that detailed the billionaire trustee’s links to Jeffrey Epstein and several sexual assault allegations brought against him.
Art Review
Tarot for a Broken World
With some of the oldest surviving tarot decks on view, the Morgan’s exhibition traces how a Renaissance card game became something far more powerful.
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Sarah Michelson’s Delicate Fetish Play
Her 25-day dance at MoMA is meta, but it’s not about dance itself so much as a lifetime of collaborating with dancers.
Feature
A Bushwick Kid at Bushwick Open Studios
During my first visit to the annual event, I found towering paintings that explore our inner child, diasporic tributes to Filipina culture, and light-filled portraits of an artist's trans community.