A statue of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, now known as Why Can’t We Be Friends?, has returned to the National Mall. Photo Andrew Harnik/Getty Images A much-debated statue of President Donald Trump and the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has officially returned to Washington, D.C. after it was hauled away by the National Parks …
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Glenn Lowry at the Museum of Modern Art on in 2023. Photo by Rob Kim/Getty Images for Museum of Modern Art With his 30-year reign as the director of the Museum of Modern Art now in the rear view after stepping last month, Glenn Lowry has been talking about the past, present, and future as …
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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 …
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. 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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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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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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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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Designed by Shigeru Ban, the Aspen Art Museum’s $45 million building opened in 2014. ©Michael Moran/OTTO On a late July afternoon in Aspen, I stood in the living room of a private home with mountain views streaming through a trio of nearly floor to ceiling windows on one side and, on the other, a major …
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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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