Critic’s Notebook
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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Art and Design
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CreditCasey Kelbaugh for The New York Times Maurizio Cattelan’s Got a Gun Show
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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CreditVincent Tullo for The New York Times Chicago Museum Says Investigators Have No Evidence Art Was Looted
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
CreditArt Institute of Chicago For Sale: A Rare Klimt Portrait, Valued at $32 Million. But of Whom?
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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CreditMatteo de Mayda for The New York Times 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
CreditCasey Kelbaugh for The New York Times 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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CreditJeanette Spicer for The New York Times 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.
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CreditJeenah Moon for The New York Times 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
CreditArtists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris; via Claude Viallat and Templon, Paris, Brussels and New York; Photo by Charles Roussel
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art reviewHow Paris Changed the Expat Artists
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
36 Hours36 Hours on Maui
The beauty and hospitality of this Hawaiian island, still recovering from last year’s wildfires, remain as vibrant as ever.
By Shannon Wianecki
Critic’s PickOne for the Ages: Sonia Delaunay’s Wearable Abstractions
A steamer trunk worth of clothing and textiles by the French-Ukrainian artist reveals the sartorial origins of abstraction.
By Walker Mimms
May Brings Not Just Flowers, but Fairs
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
The Artist Tania Candiani Accepts the ‘Invitation to Listen Closely’
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
Going to Frieze New York? Here’s What You Need to Know.
Here are some tips on what to see, and even what to drink, as the art fair returns to the Shed.
By Farah Nayeri
A Living Chinese Artist Bonds With a 19th-Century French Poet
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
10 Campus Museums Shine a Spotlight on Democracy
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
During Frieze Week, Artists Examine the Effects of Technology
From mining materials for electronics to a connection to colonialism, these exhibitions offer another viewpoint.
By Keridwen Cornelius
In May, All Eyes (and Wallets) in the Art World Turn to New York
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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