Art
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Books
2 Masterpieces Reveal the Big Bang Moment of Our Art Universe
The Frick, with these not-to-miss treasures by Bellini and Giorgione, manages to get at the origins of our art-watching obsession.
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Books
What Is Photography? (No Need to Answer That.)
Two exhibitions by Japanese artists raise deep questions about the medium, and — refreshingly — leave them hanging.
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Business
Is This the World’s Highest Grossing Photograph?
“Girls in the Windows” wasn’t made by an art world giant, but people keep buying it. And buying it. And…
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World
Guggenheim Selects Director, First Woman to Lead the Museum Group
Mariët Westermann, vice chancellor of N.Y.U.’s Abu Dhabi campus, will come to New York to run the museum as it…
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Books
Off the Court and Field, Top Athletes Become Players in the Art Market
Sports figures are increasingly becoming serious collectors, helping drive interest in contemporary art and particularly in artists of color.
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Style
What to See, Eat and Buy in Guadalajara, Mexico’s City of Makers
Steeped in cultural heritage, the capital of Jalisco is drawing a new wave of artists.
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World
An Exhibition of Orcs and Elves Has Rome Abuzz, and Bewildered
Italy’s Culture Ministry has opened a curious show dedicated to the life and works of J.R.R. Tolkien — and perhaps…
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Books
Resignations Roil Documenta Show as War in Gaza Polarizes Art World
The entire team in charge of selecting the leading avant-garde exhibition’s next curator has now resigned, putting the future of…
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News
George Tscherny, Whose Graphic Designs Defined an Era, Is Dead at 99
With a bevy of corporate and institutional clients, he helped shape the visual language of the postwar American economy.
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Books
Kerry James Marshall’s Prints Throw Blackness Into Relief
“I am not one who goes in much for magical thinking,” the painter Kerry James Marshall wrote in 2018. “Material…