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  1. Performance Review

    ‘Doom’ Has Everything, and Nothing

    Anne Imhof’s three-hour spectacle of moody youth at the Armory is sweet sorrow, full of moping and muttering. Still, almost despite itself, it points to true art.

     By Jason Farago and George Etheredge for The New York Times

    The experience of “Doom” is not unlike a night at a club — losing your friends in the darkness, oscillating from moments of excessive emotion to total boredom.
    The experience of “Doom” is not unlike a night at a club — losing your friends in the darkness, oscillating from moments of excessive emotion to total boredom.
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    1. Chinese Architect Liu Jiakun Wins Pritzker Prize

      Liu, known for understated structures that respond to their surroundings, has been awarded the profession’s highest honor.

       By Robin Pogrebin

      “Liu Jiakun takes present realities and handles them to the point of offering a whole new scenario of daily life,” the Pritzker jury said in a statement.
      “Liu Jiakun takes present realities and handles them to the point of offering a whole new scenario of daily life,” the Pritzker jury said in a statement.
      CreditTom Welsh for The Hyatt Foundation, via The Pritzker Architecture Prize

    2. Piglets Left to Die in Art Exhibition Are Stolen in Denmark

      Three starving piglets were taken from a former butcher’s warehouse, according to the Copenhagen police. The artist said he wanted to wake up society about animal mistreatment.

       By Derrick Bryson Taylor

      Marco Evaristti’s art exhibition “And Now You Care?” included three live piglets, caged by two shopping carts on a pile of straw, that would be given water but no food until they died.
      Marco Evaristti’s art exhibition “And Now You Care?” included three live piglets, caged by two shopping carts on a pile of straw, that would be given water but no food until they died.
      CreditEmil Nicolai Helms/Ritzau Scanpix, via Associated Press

  1. Keeper of a Painter’s Secrets? Or a Fantasist and a Trickster?

    Barry Joule says his friend Francis Bacon gave him a trove of sketches and paintings. Some experts aren’t so sure.

     By Alex Marshall

    Barry Joule at his home in Marseille, France.
    CreditAndrea Mantovani for The New York Times

  2. A Disruptor Asks, Is New York Finally Ready for ‘DOOM’?

    Anne Imhof is one of the most talked-about artists in the world. Her new project at the Park Avenue Armory may reveal why.

     By Aruna D’Souza

    The artist Anne Imhof in the drill hall of the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan, designed to resemble a school gym, for her newest work, “DOOM,” opening March 3.
    CreditTess Mayer for The New York Times

  3. Laura Owens: Opening Doors to Surprise, Mystery and Awe

    Paintings, wallpapered rooms, cabinets of curiosities, handmade books — immersive Owens has it all over immersive van Gogh in her wildly ambitious show.

     By Martha Schwendener

    An exhibition by Laura Owens at Matthew Marks Gallery on West 22nd Street in Chelsea offers a kind of 3-D painting. In a room with oil painting, silk-screening and flocking on clay-coated paper mounted to aluminum panels, a hidden door opens to a video installation.
    CreditGraham Dickie/The New York Times
    Critic’s Pick

  4. Guggenheim Lays Off 20 Employees as Financial Challenges Persist

    The museum has suffered from rising costs and lower attendance. The cuts followed those at the Brooklyn Museum, which trimmed 10 percent of its staff this month.

     By Zachary Small and Charlotte Burns

    The union representing some Guggenheim Museum employees has filed a grievance over the move, and is demanding to bargain over the layoffs.
    CreditSara Krulwich/The New York Times

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

    This week in Newly Reviewed, Andrew Russeth covers Léon Spilliaert’s brooding pieces, Betty Parsons’s restless forms, Adriana Ramic’s beetles and Ho Tam’s barbers.

     By Andrew Russeth

    Adriana Ramic, “With Respect to the Body Skeleton,” 2024.
    Creditvia Adriana Ramić and David Peter Francis, New York; Photo by Charles Benton

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