Stirring Up an Indigo Revival Where Slave Cabins Still Stand
In South Carolina’s Lowcountry, artists, farmers and designers are writing a new chapter in indigo’s rich and tangled history.
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CreditCandace Dane Chambers for The New York Times The Frick Collection Looks to London For Next Leader
Axel Rüger, the head of the Royal Academy of Arts, will replace Ian Wardropper next spring as the museum’s director.
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Elizabeth Catlett: Revolutionary Artist, Radical Inspiration
Once she was cast out of the United States. Today, her art and activism are front and center at an exhilarating Brooklyn Museum retrospective.
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CreditHiroko Masuike/The New York Times An Artist Turns Detritus of Ghana’s Past Into Future Possibility
Installations of jute sacks or hospital beds have made Ibrahim Mahama a star. Back home, they’re fueling a bold vision.
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Common Ground, and Conflict, Between 2 Stars of Land Art
A retrospective pairing Teresita Fernández and Robert Smithson shows they share sympathetic, deep engagement with geology and civilization.
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CreditZach Chambers Critic’s NotebookA Trip to the Many Worlds of Hellboy’s Creator
Skeletons, ghosts and more: Mike Mignola has a show at a Chelsea gallery, and it might not be what fans expect.
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CreditElias Williams for The New York Times After ‘a Treasure Hunt,’ a Cut-Up Masterpiece Returns to Venice
More than 200 years after a ceiling painted by the Tuscan artist Vasari was dismembered and sold on the antiquarian market, it is (almost) whole again.
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CreditRoberto Serra/Iguana Press, via Getty Images Don’t Call It a Protest. It’s a Walk for Radical Love.
María Magdalena Campos-Pons is marshaling New Yorkers for unity, linking uptown and downtown communities while highlighting inequities in city parks.
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CreditGraham Dickie/The New York Times Reporter’s NotebookWhat to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in September
This week in Newly Reviewed, Andrew Russeth covers a group show of self-portraits, Gina Beavers’s collaged sculptures and Hannah Villiger’s beguiling photographs.
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36 Hours36 Hours in Malmo, Sweden
Admire art in a 17th-century castle, steam in a seaside bathhouse and unwind with an afternoon fika (coffee-and-cake break) in this diverse Swedish city.
By Lisa Abend
T IntroducesAn Artist Whose Furniture Is a ‘Bat Signal’ to His Loved Ones
Ryan Preciado’s designs evoke his childhood memories and first architectural influences.
By Eviana Hartman
TrilobitesA Fossilized Creature May Explain a Puzzling Painting on a Rock Wall
The artwork suggests that the San people of South Africa have an Indigenous knowledge of paleontology that predated Western approaches to the field.
By Jack Tamisiea
A Derelict Townhouse Becomes a D.I.Y. Wonderland
How a collective of artists turned a crumbling Brussels building into their own creative playground.
By Ellie Pithers and Philippe Braquenier
On LocationTrading New York for Michigan and a Home With ‘Fun Pops of Color’
Many of their friends from Grand Rapids were “moving back home and telling us how great it was.” So they followed suit.
By Tim McKeough
Gallery Owner Sentenced in Fine Art Photography Swindle
Wendy Halsted Beard, 59, agreed to sell photography prints on behalf of older collectors. She kept the profits for herself.
By Annie Aguiar
Who Says Your Couch Can’t Match Your Sweater?
Bold colors and bright patterns mark the first collaboration between the fashion house Clare V. and the home goods company Schoolhouse.
By Aileen Kwun
Art ReviewA New Perspective on Van Gogh’s Final Flowering
A major exhibition in London focuses on the painter’s final years, finding new feelings in some of his most famous works.
By Emily LaBarge
A Famous Churchill Portrait, Stolen in Canada and Found in Italy
A forgery delayed the discovery of the theft of the photograph long enough for it to be sold at an auction in London.
By Ian Austen
Critic’s Pick‘The Americans’ Made the Photographer Robert Frank a Star. What Came Next?
MoMA’s centenary exhibition of the artist revered for a groundbreaking book makes the case for his later work.
By Arthur Lubow
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