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06/05/2023 08:27 AM
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Who Owns the Benin Bronzes? The Answer Just Got More Complicated.
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Restitution efforts were underway, fueled by news that a museum was being planned in Nigeria to house the treasures. Then a surprising announcement sowed uncertainty.
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06/01/2023 04:49 PM
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With Hannah Gadsby’s ‘It’s Pablo-matic,’ the Joke’s on the Brooklyn Museum
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The Australian comedian turns curator in a show about Picasso’s complicated legacy. But it’s women artists the exhibition really shortchanges.
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06/01/2023 12:18 PM
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Whitney Museum Sells Breuer Building to Sotheby’s
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The auction house will make the Brutalist icon on Madison Avenue its flagship in 2025.
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05/31/2023 04:55 AM
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Iiu Susiraja: She Has Issues? No, You Have Issues
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In her first museum show in the United States, this Finnish artist uses her own XL body to bring a new emotional depth to the genre of setup photography.
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05/30/2023 11:10 AM
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‘The Pictures Are Miracles’: How Judith Joy Ross Finds Pain and Nobility in Portraits
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With a retrospective in Philadelphia, the artist is still seeking to capture a mysterious moment with a stranger.
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05/24/2023 01:21 PM
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Avedon at 100: Photos of Seduction
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At Gagosian, Marian Anderson, Marilyn Monroe, Dovima and a cast of showstoppers.
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05/26/2023 09:21 AM
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Want to Be an Artist? You’re in Luck. This One Is Selling His Practice.
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Darren Bader is looking to cap a two-decade artistic career by selling something valuable. Not the witty and poetic sculpture he’s known for, but his own name.
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05/22/2023 12:56 PM
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Radical Rethinking at the Venice Architecture Biennale
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Don’t be fooled by its generic title. Lesley Lokko’s “Laboratory of the Future” is the most ambitious and pointedly political Venice Architecture Biennale in years.
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06/01/2023 07:59 PM
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What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in June
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Want to see new art in the city? Check out Joan Brown, Giorgio de Chirico and the making of Art-Rite magazine in Chelsea, and Rina Banerjee on the Lower East Side.
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06/05/2023 11:24 AM
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Up Late With Vermeer, as a Blockbuster Draws to an End
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At two extended viewings this past weekend, some of the last visitors saw the show at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam that many wanted to experience, but only a lucky 650,000 people could.
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06/04/2023 11:29 PM
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How KIRAC Trailed Michel Houellebecq From the Bedroom to the Courtroom
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The art collective KIRAC was embroiled in court battles over a film about the author’s sex life. Is the dispute a performance? A marketing stunt? Or a genuine cultural feud?
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06/01/2023 12:02 PM
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Samuel Fosso Gets a Major Solo Show of His Photos in Paris
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The photographer’s studio was destroyed during the civil war in the Central African Republic. But he built a new life in Paris, and his works are now in the collections of the world’s great museums.
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06/01/2023 12:56 PM
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Hipgnosis, the Album Artists Who Made Pink Floyd’s Pig Fly
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The filmmaker Anton Corbijn’s documentary “Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)” tells the tale of the London design company devoted to crafting the perfect LP sleeve.
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06/01/2023 08:00 AM
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Have We Smothered Andy Warhol With Our Admiration?
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A survey of the Brant Foundation’s Warhols can’t fail to please — but maybe because we’ve learned to stifle the artist’s true radicalism.
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05/31/2023 01:25 PM
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Pottery Workshops Fill Up as People Travel to Connect Over Clay
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Pottery workshops like those at the Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts in Maine are filling up with people who want to connect with others instead of screens.
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05/31/2023 03:58 PM
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For Freeman Vines, Guitar Making Is a Way of Life
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“To somebody else, it’s just some wood glued together,” Freeman Vines, 80, said. “To me, it’s something else.”
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05/26/2023 05:01 AM
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Paris Exhibition to Focus on Art Nouveau and Beyond
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Creations by pre-eminent craftsmen — Lalique, Fouquet, Vever — will be part of a show at L’École, School of Jewelry Arts.
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05/26/2023 10:42 AM
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Langston Hughes and Elmer W. Brown: A Collaboration Deferred
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The famous poet and his artist friend wanted to publish “The Sweet and Sour Animal Book” in 1936. But there were no takers. A Cleveland exhibition makes up for the lost time.
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05/25/2023 11:06 AM
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‘White Balls on Walls’ Review: Time With the Gatekeepers
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The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam becomes a somewhat flimsy case study for fine-art diversity and inclusion conversations in this documentary.
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05/25/2023 12:35 PM
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At 99, the Painter Richard Mayhew Is Still Upending Expectations
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With a show in Manhattan, he says he inherited from his Indigenous forebears “inventive consciousness.”
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