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  1. Can BAM Be a Trailblazer Again Through A. I.?

    The Brooklyn organization, seeking new audiences and pushing boundaries, debuts Techne, four digital installations from the Onassis Foundation’s ONX Studio.

     By Frank Rose

    “The Vivid Unknown,” by John Fitzgerald and Godfrey Reggio, 2023. It is part of Techne, a series of four digital installations developed at ONX and the Onassis Foundation, and seen at BAM Fisher.
    “The Vivid Unknown,” by John Fitzgerald and Godfrey Reggio, 2023. It is part of Techne, a series of four digital installations developed at ONX and the Onassis Foundation, and seen at BAM Fisher.
    CreditAmir Hamja for The New York Times

    1. 9 European Exhibitions Worth Traveling for in 2025

      From big shows in London and Amsterdam to a Cézanne tribute in the south of France, these art experiences will be worth the journey.

       By Emily LaBarge

      Paul Cezanne’s “Nature morte au plat de cerises” will be on display in Aix-en-Provence, France.
      Paul Cezanne’s “Nature morte au plat de cerises” will be on display in Aix-en-Provence, France.
      CreditLos Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Adele R. Levy Fund, Inc., and Mr. and Mrs. Armand S. Deutsch - 2024 Museum Associates / LACMA. Licenciée par Dist. GrandPalaisRmn / image LACMA

  1. 8 Art Shows to See Before They Close in January

    Sublime paintings from Siena, the birth of Impressionism and more dazzling exhibitions in New York and Washington, D.C., to catch before they’re gone.

     

    A view of “Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment” at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
    CreditNational Gallery of Art
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  2. The Vivid Thread of Memories by the Yard

    Suchitra Mattai uses vintage saris and vivid found materials to weave exquisite tapestries that challenge fixed histories about art and migration.

     By Kriston Capps

    Woven from vintage saris, Suchitra Mattai’s abstracted landscape “Through the Forest, Across the Sea, and Back Home Again” at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., illustrates the journeys of people in diasporic communities, leaving their home countries. Red, pink, orange and brown represent both India, where the artist’s ancestors originated, and the Caribbean, where they arrived.
    CreditLawren Simmons for The New York Times
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  3. The Mysterious Donor Who Fled Communism and Left Millions to the Art World

    Aso O. Tavitian grew up poor — but at age 64 he began an ‘‘explosion of buying.” Under the radar, he amassed old masters, leaving 331 to the Clark. How did he do it?

     By Ted Loos

    Renaissance masterworks from the collection of Aso O. Tavitian, including some, among hundreds, that were gifts to the Clark Art Institute and others to be auctioned at Sotheby’s New York in February.
    Creditvia Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts; via Sotheby's; Michael Bodycomb; via The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

  4. Buy, Donate, Repeat: At 91, Leonard Lauder Has More to Give

    Picasso paintings. Jasper Johns ale cans. Irving Penn photos. The cosmetics heir created the model for the headline-grabbing donation that museums dream of today.

     By Carol Vogel

    Leonard A. Lauder at his Upper East Side apartment with photographs by Irving Penn. “He understands the power of an image and how it can move us all,’’ says Max Hollein, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Lauder is still on the hunt, adding to the Met’s Penn collection.
    CreditJingyu Lin for The New York Times

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

    This week in Newly Reviewed, Martha Schwendener covers Sylvia Plimack Mangold’s photorealistic paintings, Jack Goldstein’s audio works and Pippa Garner’s gadgets.

     By Martha Schwendener

    Pippa Garner, “Blaster Bra,” 1982/2024, scanned Kodachrome slide, digital C-print.
    Creditvia Pippa Garner and Matthew Brown, New York

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  2. 36 Hours

    36 Hours in Antwerp, Belgium

    Discover medieval and Gothic masterpieces, Michelin-starred restaurants, design ateliers, wine bars and too many shopping streets to count.

    By Nina Siegal

     

  3. What Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2025

    “Severance” is finally back for its second season, three New York art museums are set to reopen and ballet goes extreme.

    By James Poniewozik, Zachary Woolfe, Jon Pareles, Jason Farago, Gia Kourlas, Jesse Green, Salamishah Tillet, Mike Hale, Alissa Wilkinson, Amanda Hess, Jason Zinoman and Maya Phillips

     
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  8. 36 Hours

    36 Hours in Palm Springs, Calif.

    With its kitsch, color and joyous queer scene, this oasis in the Coachella Valley is all in on earthly pleasures.

    By Freda Moon

     

  9. The Timeless Spell of Rome’s Oldest Churches

    During the upcoming Jubilee year, millions of Christian pilgrims will flock to the Eternal City’s innumerable holy places. Here are five gorgeous churches that may offer a less-crowded experience.

    By David Laskin

     
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