Native Modern Art: From a Cardboard Box to the Met
Nearly lost, Mary Sully’s discovered drawings riff on Modernist geometries and Dakota Sioux beadwork and quilting. Our critic calls it “symphonically bicultural.”
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![Mary Sully’s “Indian Church,” among 25 triptych drawings created by the artist from the 1920s to the 1940s, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in a show of graphic virtuosity.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/static01.nyt.com/images/2024/07/25/multimedia/25mary-sully-review-indian-church-02-czhq/25mary-sully-review-indian-church-02-czhq-thumbLarge-v2.jpg?auto=webp)
![Mary Sully’s “Indian Church,” among 25 triptych drawings created by the artist from the 1920s to the 1940s, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in a show of graphic virtuosity.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/static01.nyt.com/images/2024/07/25/multimedia/25mary-sully-review-indian-church-02-czhq/25mary-sully-review-indian-church-02-czhq-threeByTwoMediumAt2X-v2.jpg?auto=webp)
Nearly lost, Mary Sully’s discovered drawings riff on Modernist geometries and Dakota Sioux beadwork and quilting. Our critic calls it “symphonically bicultural.”
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The artist’s new paintings at Gagosian show her working through the loss of her husband, the artist Brice Marden, in a hot palette, feathers and shells.
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The museum said it attracted more local visitors during the past year than it did before the pandemic, but only half the international visitors.
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Misunderstood for decades, the sculptor and filmmaker is pushing ceramic to its limits. He’s dancing. He’s making the best work of his career.
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The Avant-Garde Psychiatrist Who Built an Artistic Refuge
A show at the American Folk Art Museum spotlights a Catalan doctor’s revolutionary contributions to 20th-century psychiatry and their connections with modern art and Art Brut.
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To Sell Prized Paintings, a University Proclaims They’re Not ‘Conservative’
Valparaiso University is arguing it should never have acquired two paintings, including a Georgia O’Keeffe, in the 1960s. It hopes to sell them to pay for dorm renovations.
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Beyond Outlaw: New Paths for Aging Taggers
At Lehmann Maupin, exhibitions of new work pushing the form of street art forward, from San Francisco’s Barry McGee and Osgemeos, the Brazilian artists he inspired.
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These Sculptures Changed What Art Could Be, Then Changed Themselves
Eva Hesse’s latex and fiberglass pieces from the late 1960s have been reunited from five institutions. Their rapid deterioration makes their future uncertain — which may be their best quality.
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What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in July
This week in Newly Reviewed, Yinka Elujoba covers Elmer Guevara’s subtle paintings, James Casebere’s reimagined architecture and John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres’s busts of Bronx residents.
By Will HeinrichZoë HopkinsWalker Mimms and
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After years of standing by their sides, these guards find these pieces of art deeply meaningful. You might too.
By Noëlle de Leeuw
The museum reports having hundreds of consultations with Native American groups and says it is also returning 90 objects.
By Zachary Small
An Egon Schiele drawing was returned on Friday at the Manhattan district attorney’s office. The heirs said in a statement that relinquishing the work was “the right thing to do.”
By Tom Mashberg
The architect Winka Dubbeldam’s renovation of a nondescript 800-square-foot building resulted in a minimalist house with a maximalist sense of drama.
By Julie Lasky
The French Riviera resort town brims with the unexpected, including a wealth of prehistory, ancient ruins and newer attractions.
By Chloé Braithwaite
To open the Games, the theater director Thomas Jolly has masterminded a spectacular waterborne ceremony depicting 12 scenes from French history.
By Catherine Porter
Jodi Melnick’s new work is performed throughout a gallery installation, while one by Annie-B Parson sprawls in a sculpture park.
By Brian Seibert
The two designers never planned to leave Brooklyn. But upstate New York beckoned.
By Tim McKeough
At the Biennale, Wael Shawky represented his country with a lush retelling of a failed revolution that offers hope in a troubled political landscape.
By Aruna D’Souza
By car or train, there’s no better time to get out of the city than now, during the fifth edition of this sprawling festival north of New York City.
By Will Heinrich
San Diego serves up gorgeous beaches, arty neighborhoods and rich history, yet it still excels at being underrated.
By Freda Moon
Charleston’s International African American Museum helps visitors fill in the blanks of their family’s pasts.
By Jonathan Abrams
The stegosaurus had been expected to sell for between $4 million and $6 million. It set a record in the contentious fossil trade, where scientists fear being priced out of the market.
By Zachary Small and Julia Jacobs
The 20 recipients, including a Broadway composer, a Marvel video game voice actress and a three-time Pushcart Prize-nominated poet, are the initiative’s final cohort.
By Sarah Bahr
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ABC No Rio, a cultural center on the Lower East Side, broke ground on the new building, which will replace the tenement it operated out of for more than 40 years.
By Colin Moynihan
Terminal 6 at Kennedy International Airport will feature work by Charles Gaines, Barbara Kruger and more. Developers of new terminals must invest in public art.
By Hilarie M. Sheets
You don’t have to spend a lot to remake your kitchen. Instead, try these six D.I.Y. hacks.
By Tim McKeough
Glyphs and pictographs at a site in Texas represent generations of settlement by Indigenous peoples.
By Dimitri Staszewski and Franz Lidz
In video footage, everything was pandemonium. It was still images that defined the attack and its aftermath.
By Jason Farago
A look behind the scenes at the illumination of the pieces on display. The so-called lampers strike a delicate balance between accentuating the art and protecting it from the effects of light.
By Sopan Deb and Hiroko Masuike
Inheritors of a world shaped by big tech and precarious careers, these New York artists are searching for answers in good faith.
By Travis Diehl
Hartwig Fischer, a German art historian, will be the director of a new museum of world cultures in Saudi Arabia.
By Alex Marshall
Born into slavery, Guillaume Lethière became one of France’s most decorated painters. For the first time, a major exhibition gives us the full view of his scenes of love and war.
By Jason Farago
There’s always more to a photo than what we see, as shown by standout exhibitions at this year’s Rencontres d’Arles in southern France.
By Emily LaBarge
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Thousands of years of culture and history converge in this vibrant, coastal city known as the “Pearl of the Aegean.”
By Alex Crevar
The architect who designed some of the 20th century’s great buildings kept a notebook with intimate glimpses into his creative vision. Now it’s his daughter’s final goodbye.
By Sam Lubell
Seven artists with local connections, including Glenn Kaino and Charles Gaines, were commissioned to create pieces for the Intuit Dome, bridging sports and culture.
By Robin Pogrebin
An anti-abortion group had previously denounced Shahzia Sikander’s sculpture as “satanic.” University officials said they are investigating the attack.
By Zachary Small
The fire-resistant house she built in Napa, Calif., with the insurance money was “so different — and I like different.”
By Tim McKeough
The artist Cai Guo-Qiang has designed an epic fireworks event for the Los Angeles Coliseum this September.
By Jori Finkel
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