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Community Comes First at Ethan James Green’s New York Life Gallery

There’s graffiti on the door of 167-169 Canal Street, along with its address in bold red block letters on the glass and, behind that, a long set of stairs cascading upward. I’m buzzed in, and I wind...

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How Artists’ Personal Brands Bring in Big Bucks

You may see Bob Timberlake, the 86-year-old artist in Lexington, North Carolina, only as a painter of rural imagery (house in the woods, wicker chair in front of hydrangeas, house surrounded by a snowy...

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Christie’s Is Poised to Break Brice Marden’s Auction Record With a $50M Painting

A never-before-seen Brice Marden painting is expected to smash the abstract artist’s auction record when it is offered up by Christie’s this spring. Painted between 2004 and 2007, Event “marks the...

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Pipilotti Rist Explores Interior and Exterior in Two Chelsea Galleries

Walking into Luhring Augustine on 24th Street, gallery visitors must pass a large red textile work quilted with multiple colorful patterns: Pipilotti Rist’s Textile Gleichzeitigkeit (Joey Foulard)...

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A Guide to All the March Art Fairs

A whiff of spring is in the air, though for many of us, the temperature outside still makes indoor activities more palatable. The February art fairs have mostly come and gone—thankfully the calendar of...

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The Gallery of the Future: Navigating the Evolving World of Digital Art

When we imagine the future, our minds often drift to scenes filled with flying cars, towering modern buildings and technology that seamlessly responds to our every gesture. Yet in these futuristic...

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The Most Anticipated Art Museum Openings and Expansions of 2024

Last year, Dan Hicks writing for The Architecture Review about his book The Brutish Museums: the Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution asked the question, ‘Are museums obsolete?‘...

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The Noguchi Museum’s Amy Hau On Preserving the Artist’s Legacy and Building...

Last month, it was announced that Amy Hau would serve as the next director of the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, colloquially known as The Noguchi Museum, in Long Island City, Queens. The...

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Is Matthew Wong the 21st Century’s van Gogh?

“The Realm of Appearances,” the Matthew Wong retrospective currently on view at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, is full of ghosts. There’s the ghost of Wong himself, of course, who died by suicide in...

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Arts Travelogue: Finding Dali in Cadaqués

I recently went for a long walk, over several weeks, down the Costa Brava from Banyuls, France to Sitges in Spain. I walked with no particular destination and on no schedule, so when I ended up in...

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The Art of Mexico City, On and Off the Beaten Path

Avenida Paseo de la Reforma is the backbone of Mexico City, its tallest skyscrapers lining the boulevard like a great set of vertebrae, a spine occasionally punctuated by the chakras of enormous...

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Barbara Kruger Is Still Flipping the Bird

Until the late 1970s, making a zine was a labor of love and money. Love as in time spent assembling the thing—the cutting out, the sticking together. Money as in paying a service to print issues. By...

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Rhizome’s 7×7 Models a Deeper Collaboration Between Art and Science

The intersection of art and technology gets a lot of press these days. In any given headline, it might be the “next frontier.” Or where cultural innovation happens. On some days, it’s spawning new job...

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A Rare Rediscovered Banksy Heads to Auction

A rare work by Banksy, the elusive British artist famed for his humorous and at times political street art, is heading to auction years after it was rediscovered and rescued by a team of restoration...

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The Met Pays Tribute to New York’s Great Black Artists

Among New York neighborhoods, Harlem has long stood out for its immense impact on culture. Early in the Twentieth Century, it emerged as an epicenter of music, art, theater, literature and dining—the...

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One Fine Show: Irving Penn’s San Francisco Summer of Love

The other day, Page Six dropped a gossip item about the pressure Anna Wintour faces over TikTok’s sponsorship of the Met Gala, in light of the app’s recent ban, and I thought about how hard it would...

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Five Must-Visit Contemporary Art Museums in Shanghai

Rapidly evolving in the past decades, the contemporary scene in Shanghai boasts a great range of art venues today, including some prestigious museums and a solid group of art galleries, making the city...

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Cuban Artist Alejandro Piñeiro Bello Is the Latest Addition to Pace Gallery’s...

Following a solo show at Pace in Seoul last September—and his big attention-grabbing moment that was his presentation at the Rubell Museum during last year’s Art Basel Miami—Alejandro Piñeiro Bello...

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Dutch Avant Garde Artist Jacqueline de Jong Dies at Age 85

Over her six-decade career, Duch artist Jacqueline de Jong has completely dedicated herself to exploring the narrative possibilities of figuration through her raw, surrealistic and extremely vivid...

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The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Announces Photographer Toba Tucker as This...

The Pollock-Krasner Foundation just announced contemporary American photographer Toba Tucker as the recipient of its 2024 Lee Krasner Award, which is awarded annually to an individual in recognition...

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