This Taiwanese Calligrapher Brings a Message of Freedom to the Met
Tong Yang-Tze is reviving an ancient but disappearing practice and making it contemporary — writ large.
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Credit What Trenton Doyle Hancock Learned From Philip Guston
The Jewish Museum pairs the Texas artist with a 20th-century master. Together they confront racism with horror — and humor.
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Art Deco’s Bad Girl, Still Ahead of Her Time
Tamara de Lempicka’s first major U.S. survey invokes her as a trailblazing techno-feminist who borrowed freely from art history. But it also buries her erratic second act.
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CreditIrena Hochman Fine Art Ltd. NY A Mainstay of the Bloomsbury Group, With a Show of Her Own
Vanessa Bell is often best remembered for the creative milieu she cultivated, but a new exhibition of her work makes a case for her as a groundbreaking artist.
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From Museum Guard to Memoirist, and Now the Play’s His Thing
With Patrick Bringley’s “All the Beauty in the World” now in its 10th printing, he’s debuting in two new roles: playwright and actor.
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CreditSara Krulwich/The New York Times Herzog & de Meuron to Renovate Breuer Building for Sotheby’s
The Pritzker-winning architectural firm is known for its transformation of existing structures like the Park Avenue Armory.
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A search for his origins led Archie Moore to the farthest corners of Australia’s history and the Golden Lion prize at the Venice Biennale.
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Decades of planning and restoration come to fruition at Seattle’s Waterfront Park, a new Central Park rink and pool, the grounds of Olana, and Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania.
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Some collectors treat artworks like poker chips and flip work by young artists. That’s not Brian Donnelly. Now his finds star in a show.
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From Basketry to Clay, the Bahamas to New York
An award-winning sculptor who works in clay, Anina Major recalls the years as a child that helped drive the creativity she exhibits today.
By Sarah Archer
What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in November
This week in Newly Reviewed, Will Heinrich covers Reginald Madison’s mix of abstraction and figuration, Daniel Terna’s tension-filled scenes and Erin O’Keefe’s illusory photographs.
By Will Heinrich
Exhibition ReviewAt Salon Art + Design, Nature and Beauty Come Center Stage
More than 50 galleries tease the lines between function and decoration, in a year when the fair has a far-reaching mission: to give more artists a chance to be seen.
By Martha Schwendener
36 Hours36 Hours in San Francisco
As beautiful as ever, this glittering bayside city is expanding its public spaces and arts institutions.
By Freda Moon
Joseph Rykwert, 98, Dies; Historian of Architecture Challenged Modernism
A “gloriously erudite” critic, he denounced the embrace of blandly functional architecture in efforts to rebuild after World War II.
By Clay Risen
The FixEliminating Kitchen Clutter Has Never Looked More Stylish
Some of the biggest offenders tend to be small appliances like coffee makers and toasters. Designers are creating new ways to maximize space.
By Tim McKeough
The Art of Not Belonging: Ralph Lemon Takes Over MoMA PS1
In certain circles, the name Ralph — like Merce or Madonna — lights up a room. The choreographer and visual artist is the subject of a major exhibition of his art and performances.
By Gia Kourlas
Investigators Say a High-Profile Dealer Trafficked 2,000 Looted Artifacts
In an arrest warrant for Edoardo Almagià, a Princeton-educated antiquities dealer, the Manhattan district attorney’s office detailed what it described as decades of illicit transactions.
By Colin Moynihan
Isabelle de Borchgrave Dies at 78; Traced Sartorial History With Paper
An artist and designer, she transformed simple craft paper into elaborate trompe l’oeil confections, creating stunning life-size reproductions of period garments.
By Penelope Green
Critic’s NotebookHow the West Fell for Psychedelics
A new exhibition series rejects the question of whether or not we should be doing drugs, and instead tries to understand why, and how, we always have.
By Rosa Lyster
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