Art and Design

Highlights

  1. Critic’s Notebook

    At SFMOMA, Disability Artwork Makes History

    After 50 years, Creative Growth in Oakland celebrates as its artists enter the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s collection.

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    At the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition, “Creative Growth: The House That Art Built,” a mannequin wears an untitled piece by William Scott from 2020 (acrylic paint on suit jacket and pants). Right, a wall-size photo of Creative Growth artists and staff members.
    At the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition, “Creative Growth: The House That Art Built,” a mannequin wears an untitled piece by William Scott from 2020 (acrylic paint on suit jacket and pants). Right, a wall-size photo of Creative Growth artists and staff members.
    CreditDon Ross, via San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  2. An Appraisal

    Frank Stella Went From Bauhaus to Fun House

    He was consumed with abstract painting and determined to keep it alive even when it became an unpopular cause among younger artists.

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    Frank Stella in 2015 in his studio in Rock Tavern, N.Y., with “The Michael Kohlhaas Curtain,” which measures 100 feet long. A breathtaking painting and sculpture of geometric and ornamental elements and colors, it seems to pop out of the canvas.
    Frank Stella in 2015 in his studio in Rock Tavern, N.Y., with “The Michael Kohlhaas Curtain,” which measures 100 feet long. A breathtaking painting and sculpture of geometric and ornamental elements and colors, it seems to pop out of the canvas.
    CreditFrank Stella/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Photo by Todd Heisler/The New York Times
    1. Art Fair Review

      Frieze New York Brings a Rich, Cross-Cultural Mix

      The Shed welcomes an international survey of painting, textiles and collage to its galleries. Our critic picks his 23 favorite booths.

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      Works by Laura Lima, center, and Ana Silva at A Gentil Carioca.
      Works by Laura Lima, center, and Ana Silva at A Gentil Carioca.
      CreditBen Sklar for The New York Times
    2. An Artist From Kosovo Takes Flight

      After a childhood marked by war and exile, Petrit Halilaj has become one of his generation’s great talents.

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      CreditVincent Tullo for The New York Times
  1. Standouts at NADA New York, the Fair for Up-and-Comers

    The most exciting part of this fair for younger galleries is the chance for viewers to see art from out of town.

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    The painter Marigold Santos captures a female shape-shifter in an eye-catching series of paintings in a solo display with the Canadian gallery Patel Brown at this year’s New Art Dealers Alliance fair.
    CreditJeenah Moon for The New York Times
    Art Fair Review
  2. The Artist Who Burned the U.S. Flag Raises a New One in Venice

    Dread Scott’s unabashedly activist art once led to a Supreme Court ruling on free speech. Now during the Biennale, he tackles racist immigration policies.

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    The Brooklyn-based artist Dread Scott has opened an imaginary agency in Venice, “All African People’s Consulate,” as a comment on European immigration policies.
    CreditMatteo de Mayda for The New York Times
  3. On the Met Roof, Skywriting His Way to Freedom

    Petrit Halilaj of Kosovo began drawing as a refugee child in the Balkans during a violent decade and invented a calligraphic world of memory.

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    “Abetare (Spider),” a stainless steel sculpture by Petrit Halilaj for his Met Roof Garden commission opening Tuesday. “Abetare” was the name of an illustrated alphabetic primer, written in the Albanian language, which the artist, now 38, had learned as a child.
    CreditHiroko Masuike/The New York Times
    Critic’s Pick
  4. Arlene Shechet’s ‘Girl Group’ Nudges Heavy Metal Men at Storm King

    Once known for ceramics, she now commands the rolling hills at the prestigious New York sculpture park with a chorus of six giant welded works.

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    Arlene Shechet with the 20-foot-tall “As April,” one of six massive welded sculptures from “Girl Group,” her exhibition being installed at Storm King Art Center. The 2024 work is in two vivid shades of yellow.
    CreditCole Wilson for The New York Times
  5. Maurizio Cattelan Turned a Banana Into Art. Next Up: Guns

    As his bullet-riddled panels go up at Gagosian, the artist, in a rare in-person interview, tells why he turned his sardonic gaze on a violence-filled world.

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    The artist Maurizio Cattelan at Gagosian with a wall of his new work, “Sunday,” its gold-plated steel panels riddled with bullets from pistols, rifles and semiautomatic weapons at a New York firing range.
    CreditVincent Tullo for The New York Times

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