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  2. Critic’s Pick

    After 70 Years, Si Lewen’s Wrenching ‘Parade’ Marches On

    This sequence of 63 bravura antiwar drawings hasn’t been shown in New York in nearly seven decades but they’re up again now, thanks to Art Spiegelman.

     By Will Heinrich

    Si Lewen’s “The Parade,” circa 1950, captures all the overwhelming horror of bayonets and beating drums — but also their slick graphic appeal.
    Si Lewen’s “The Parade,” circa 1950, captures all the overwhelming horror of bayonets and beating drums — but also their slick graphic appeal.
    Creditvia the Estate of Si Lewen and James Cohan, New York; Photo by Phoebe d’Heurle

    2. Norman Lear’s Art Goes to Auction

      The television producer’s prime pieces will be featured in a special evening sale at Christie’s in May.

       By Robin Pogrebin

      Norman Lear, in 2014. His wife, Lyn Davis Lear, is selling seven pieces he collected at Christie’s on May 16. “Norman’s philosophy was buy what you love, don’t buy anything thinking you’re going to make a lot of money,” she said.
      Norman Lear, in 2014. His wife, Lyn Davis Lear, is selling seven pieces he collected at Christie’s on May 16. “Norman’s philosophy was buy what you love, don’t buy anything thinking you’re going to make a lot of money,” she said.
      CreditAndrew Renneisen/The New York Times

  1. Match Made in Venice: Tadao Ando and Zeng Fanzhi

    From Japan, Ando designed an exhibition for Zeng, the Chinese painter, which generates a sense of surprise and discovery — what LACMA’s director calls “a strange, poetic thing.”

     By Andrew Maerkle

    Tadao Ando’s exhibition design for “Zeng Fanzhi: Near and Far/Now and Then” in Venice uses light and shadow to accentuate the interaction between the artworks and the site, the Scuola Grande della Misericordia.
    CreditStefan Altenburger
    Venice Biennale 2024

  2. Representing the U.S. and Critiquing It in a Psychedelic Rainbow

    Jeffrey Gibson’s history-making turn at the Venice Biennale brings the gay and Native American artist center stage with works of struggle and freedom.

     By Jillian Steinhauer

    Jeffrey Gibson in his studio in Hudson, N.Y., with a painting, at right, for his U.S. Pavilion exhibition at the Venice Biennale, opening April 20. The work, titled “Whereas It Is Essential to Just Government We Recognize the Equality of All People Before the Law,” cites the Civil Rights Act of 1875 in close, angular letters.
    CreditElliott Jerome Brown Jr. for The New York Times

  3. Philip Johnson’s Brick House and Its Hidden Boudoir, Exposed

    The Glass House in Connecticut has its 75th anniversary, followed by the reopening of its long-mute twin, “warmer and toastier and sexier.”

     By Christopher Hawthorne

    Philip Johnson said of the Brick House, “This was a great breakthrough for me, to thumb my nose at my mentor, Mies van der Rohe, and to say that things should be warmer and toastier and sexier than they are in modern, square-beamed architecture.”
    CreditJulius Shulman and Juergen Nogai
    Critic’s Notebook

  4. In the Nigeria Pavilion, Criticism Meets Optimism

    The group show “Nigeria Imaginary” will be one of the most ambitious African presentations ever at the Venice Biennale.

     By Siddhartha Mitter

    Aindrea Emelife, the curator of the “Nigeria Imaginary” pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale, during installation earlier this month.
    CreditMatteo de Mayda for The New York Times

  5. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in April

    Roberta Smith reviews Rudolf Stingel’s wall-to-wall carpet piece, Pam Glick’s provocative abstract paintings and Carole Gibbons’s larger-than-life still lifes.

     By Roberta Smith, Travis Diehl and Max Lakin

    Pam Glick’s “Yew,” 2024, oil, acrylic and pencil on canvas.
    CreditVia Pam Glick and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London and New York

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    36 Hours in Munich

    Shedding its conservative reputation, the Bavarian capital is finding unusual ways to balance tradition and innovation.

    By A.J. Goldmann

     
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