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Art and Design

Highlights

  1. Critic’s Notebook

    When Richard Serra’s Steel Curves Became a Memorial

    The sculptor had a breakthrough in the late 1990s with his torqued metal rings. Then the attack on the World Trade Center, which Serra witnessed, gave them a sudden new significance.

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    Three of Richard Serra’s “Torqued Ellipses,” from 1996-97, now on permanent view at the Dia Art Foundation in Beacon, N.Y. The curving steel plates have oxidized since their debut from vermilion to dark brown.
    Three of Richard Serra’s “Torqued Ellipses,” from 1996-97, now on permanent view at the Dia Art Foundation in Beacon, N.Y. The curving steel plates have oxidized since their debut from vermilion to dark brown.
    CreditRichard Serra/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Photo by Victor Llorente for The New York Times
  2. Critic’s Pick

    The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Rage and Grief

    Käthe Kollwitz’s fierce belief in social justice and her indelible images made her one of Germany’s best printmakers. A dazzling MoMA show reminds us why.

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    In Käthe Kollwitz’s “Woman with Dead Child,” in a Museum of Modern Art survey, two figures become one in the mother’s tight embrace. Etching with drypoint, sandpaper; artist’s proof.
    In Käthe Kollwitz’s “Woman with Dead Child,” in a Museum of Modern Art survey, two figures become one in the mother’s tight embrace. Etching with drypoint, sandpaper; artist’s proof.
    CreditThe Trustees of the British Museum
    1. Art Review

      At Tiffany’s Flagship, Luxe Art Helps Sell the Jewels

      Turrell. Hirst. Basquiat: This 10-story palace is filled with famous names, for a heady fusion of relevant, and discomfiting, contemporary art and retailing.

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      Looming next to vitrines filled with engagement rings are Daniel Arsham’s “Bronze Eroded Venus of Arles” (2022), at left, and Anish Kapoor’s “Random Triangle Mirror” (2016) at right, on the third floor of the Tiffany flagship store on Fifth Avenue.
      Looming next to vitrines filled with engagement rings are Daniel Arsham’s “Bronze Eroded Venus of Arles” (2022), at left, and Anish Kapoor’s “Random Triangle Mirror” (2016) at right, on the third floor of the Tiffany flagship store on Fifth Avenue.
      CreditAnish Kapoor. All Rights Reserved, DACS, London/ARS, NY; Photo by Jeenah Moon for The New York Times
    2. Critic’s Notebook

      When Larry Met Jean-Michel

      A new exhibition tells the dealer’s story of how two rising stars, Larry Gagosian and Jean-Michel Basquiat, worked together in Los Angeles in the ’80s.

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      Larry Gagosian and Jean-Michel Basquiat, around 1982, when the artist visited Los Angeles and produced an enormous amount of paintings.
      Larry Gagosian and Jean-Michel Basquiat, around 1982, when the artist visited Los Angeles and produced an enormous amount of paintings.
      CreditGagosian Beverly Hills
  1. Crisis-Hit British Museum Gets New Leader

    Nicholas Cullinan will take over the London institution as it faces the fallout from a theft scandal and calls for the return of objects in its collection.

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    Nicholas Cullinan speaking at the National Portrait Gallery Gala in London this month.
    CreditDavid Parry/Shutterstock
  2. You Know Him From N.B.A. Games. You Know His House From ‘Selling Sunset.’

    For half a century, James Goldstein has been renovating a house by John Lautner. It’s a spectacular legacy. But like everything about Goldstein, it’s complicated.

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    CreditJake Michaels for The New York Times
  3. The White House Has That Sinking Feeling (Thanks to an Artist)

    Kiyan Williams, for their Whitney Biennial commission, recreated the column-lined facade from soil. Viewers can watch as it crumbles, sprouts plants and births insects.

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    “The last gallery I worked with referred to their artists as being in a stable,” Williams said. “I am not a show pony.”
    CreditClifford Prince King for The New York Times
  4. Joan Jonas: A Trailblazer Shines at MoMA

    A bounteous and playful survey of the 87-year-old artist’s career on the vanguard highway fills the museum and the Drawing Center.

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    Visitors study the multimedia installation “The Juniper Tree” (1976/1994) in the exhibition “Joan Jonas: Good Night Good Morning” at the Museum of Modern Art, which includes slides and sound.
    CreditClark Hodgin for The New York Times
    Critic’s Pick
  5. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in March

    This week, Holland Cotter covers the Studio Museum in Harlem’s residency results, Sarah Grilo’s little-seen paintings and Mary Lucier’s experimental and heartfelt video art.

     By Max LakinMartha Schwendener and

    Installation view of “Paa Joe: Celestial City” at Superhouse.
    CreditPaa Joe, via Superhouse, New York; Photo by Brian W. Ferry

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  2. 36 Hours

    36 Hours in Mumbai

    Explore ancient caves, catch a concert in a former textile mill, feast on mangoes and go on a poetry crawl in this fast-changing Indian city.

    By Saumya Roy

     
  3. T 25

    The 25 Most Defining Pieces of Furniture From the Last 100 Years

    Three designers, a museum curator, an artist and a design-savvy actress convened at The New York Times to make a list of the most enduring and significant objects for living.

    By Nick Haramis, Max Berlinger, Rose Courteau, Kate Guadagnino, Max Lakin and Evan Moffitt

     
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