The Venice Biennale and the Art of Turning Backward
Every art institution now speaks of progress, justice, transformation. What if all those words hide a more old-fashioned aim?
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Every art institution now speaks of progress, justice, transformation. What if all those words hide a more old-fashioned aim?
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From bananas as art to bullet-riddled panels: The Italian artist, in a rare in-person interview, tells why he turned his sardonic gaze on a violence-filled world.
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In a court filing, the Art Institute of Chicago fought Manhattan prosecutors’ efforts to seize an important Egon Schiele drawing, denying that the Nazis had stolen it.
By Graham Bowley and
The painting’s re-emergence after decades has come with a swirl of questions about its subject, one of three related teenage girls.
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Archie Moore, Australian Artist, Wins Top Prize at Venice Biennale
Moore, an Indigenous Australian artist, won the Golden Lion for “kith and kin,” which draws on what he says is 65,000 years of family history.
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These highlights drew the big crowds in the early days, from a sonorous symphony made by fruit, to an underwater spectacle to a modern-day Tintoretto.
By Jason Farago, Alex Marshall, Julia Halperin, Jillian Steinhauer, Zachary Small, Casey Kelbaugh and
Roni Horn: a Restless Artist With 4 Shows and More Identities
The spring exhibitions display Horn’s work across many mediums — a reflection of how the artist, known for her serene glass sculptures, sees herself.
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Books Bound in Human Skin: An Ethical Quandary at the Library
Harvard’s recent decision to remove the binding of a notorious volume in its library has thrown fresh light on a shadowy corner of the rare book world.
By Jennifer Schuessler and
What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in April
Blake Gopnik reviews Richmond Barthé’s celebrated sculptures, Claude Viallat’s paintings on fabric and Maarten Baas’s one-of-a-kind “Sweeper’s Clock.”.
By Blake Gopnik, Roberta Smith and
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An exhibition at the Grey Art Museum explores the fervid postwar scene in Paris, where Ellsworth Kelly, Joan Mitchell and others learned lessons America couldn’t teach them.
By Karen Rosenberg
The beauty and hospitality of this Hawaiian island, still recovering from last year’s wildfires, remain as vibrant as ever.
By Shannon Wianecki
A steamer trunk worth of clothing and textiles by the French-Ukrainian artist reveals the sartorial origins of abstraction.
By Walker Mimms
Beyond Frieze, the options for collectors include events devoted to contemporary African art as well as underrepresented and emerging artists. Here’s a roundup.
By Tanya Mohn
She does deep research to create her videos, sound installations and other works that draw attention to the things that go unnoticed.
By Ray Mark Rinaldi
Here are some tips on what to see, and even what to drink, as the art fair returns to the Shed.
By Farah Nayeri
Tao Siqi’s fluorescent-colored paintings, inspired by Charles Baudelaire, will be on display in the Capsule Shanghai booth at Frieze New York.
By David Belcher
A coalition of universities is tying exhibitions into the 2024 elections and the broader issue of extreme political polarization in the United States.
By Alina Tugend
From mining materials for electronics to a connection to colonialism, these exhibitions offer another viewpoint.
By Keridwen Cornelius
Other cities have game, but springtime in the Big Apple brings a concentration of fairs, auctions and shows without parallel.
By Ted Loos
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