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What Was the Pictures Generation?

Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #21, 1978 Artwork copyright © Cindy Sherman. Digital images courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth. In the United States, the 1970s were known as the malaise decade, nowhere more so than in New York City, where the white middle class had fled the Five Boroughs along with manufacturing …

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A Closer Look Inside the Camille Pissarro Exhibition at the Denver Art Museum

Camille Pissarro: Hoar-Frost, Peasant Girl Making a Fire (Gelée blanche, jeune paysanne faisant du feu), 1888. Courtesy akg-images, Laurent Lecat Nearly 100 artworks and related ephemera by Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro are expected to go on view as part of the exhibition “The Honest Eye: Camille Pissarro’s Impressionism” at the Denver Art Museum (DAM) next …

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Gabriel Chaile’s Monumental Sculptures Keep Pre-Columbian History from Disappearing

Gabriel Chaile. Photo Alex Krotkov As the fall season kicked off in New York earlier this month, High Line Art curator Cecilia Alemani jokingly provided dealers at Marianne Boesky Gallery with a warning: They might never get the adobe dust from Gabriel Chaile’s sculptures out of the gallery’s nooks and crannies. Chaile, who was standing …

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New York’s Storied Tilton Gallery to Close, Eight Years After Founder’s Death

Installation view of “In Tribute to Jack Tilton: A Selection from 35 Years,” 2018, at Tilton Gallery, New York. Courtesy Tilton Gallery, New York Tilton Gallery in New York announced that its upcoming exhibition will be its last. That exhibition for late abstract painter Ruth Vollmer will run September 30 to November 15, after which …

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Roberta Smith Interviews Larry Gagosian, Who Says He ‘Can’t Micromanage 18 Galleries’

Larry Gagosian. Getty Images Here’s something you don’t see every day: the world’s most respected art critic interviewing the world’s most famous art dealer. But thanks to Numero magazine, we now have the pleasure of reading Roberta Smith’s interview with Larry Gagosian (and, inevitably, his with her). Here are the key takeways. They aren’t exactly …

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30 Years of Research Has Revealed a ‘Forgotten’ Castle on Scottish Isle

Drone photograph of Finlaggan. Courtesy Open Virtual Worlds at University of St Andrews A new book published by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland has revealed the existence of a previously unknown castle on the Scottish isle of Islay, dating to the 12th or 13th century CE. The book, The Archaeology of Finlaggan, Islay, is …

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Lisa Phillips, Longtime Director of New York’s New Museum, to Retire

Lisa Phillips. Photo Paul Bruinooge/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Lisa Phillips, director of New York’s New Museum, will retire after more than 25 years in the post, the New York Times reported Thursday. The museum is currently undergoing a 62,000-square-foot expansion that had been expected to open this fall, though no inauguration date has been …

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Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Latest Exhibition Brings the Blast of Golan Heights Wind Turbines to Oslo

Installation view of “Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Zifzafa,” 2025, at Munch Museum, Oslo. Photo Ove Kvavik / Munchmuseet You hear Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s new exhibition before you see it. In Oslo’s gleaming Munch Museum, the faint sound of a saxophone drifts out into the 10th floor’s open promenade. The source of the music is found within …

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