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-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
A new arts district, stylish restaurants and a museum that pays homage to the Games greet visitors to this Swiss city, home to the International Olympic Committee.
By Seth Sherwood
Jesse Darling is so disillusioned with the art world that he just isn’t sure.
By Thomas Rogers
A new exhibition reminds us that while the famous doll can now do any job, her greatest power is selling stuff — to children and adults alike.
By Emily LaBarge
This artist’s indispensable archive of queer and Latino life on display at MoMA PS1 leaves us intoxicated by the energy of a world too long under the radar.
By Zoë Hopkins
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It starts in your own backyard (or the tiny container garden on your balcony): “You can put a single bloom in a flower vase, and that is often enough.”
By Tim McKeough
In New York’s art show of the summer, paint and prose meet in “The Swimmer,” a psychoanalysis of John Cheever’s suburban nightmare of 1964.
By Walker Mimms
It’s actually 118 at the Brooklyn Museum, and the more the better. These vivid color woodblocks have much to teach Instagram, and even Murakami.
By Will Heinrich
The 84-year-old American is perhaps best known for her groundbreaking feminist installation “The Dinner Party,” but she is an artist with a formidable range.
By Emily LaBarge
Tim Bushe decided to shape the hedges in his London neighborhood into a menagerie. They’ve become a local attraction.
By Isabella Kwai and Andrew Testa
State lawmakers voted to pull funding for an outpost of the Pompidou Center in Jersey City, blaming rising costs. The mayor said the decision was retribution.
By Zachary Small
Although attendance remains down from prepandemic levels, the city’s arts groups are having some success getting audiences to return.
By Robin Pogrebin
The portrait of the first lady, which was likely taken in 1846, will be part of an exhibition for the nation’s semiquincentennial.
By Annie Aguiar
The breakout character was initially envisioned as a monster. But when the filmmakers saw it wasn’t working, they found their way to a softer antagonist.
By Reggie Ugwu
Dr. Alex Arroyo, a director of pediatric medicine in Brooklyn, gets to live out his “Star Wars” dreams, practice jujitsu and make a big mess while cooking for his family.
By Sarah Bahr
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The center marks the history of the Stonewall Inn and the uprising there in 1969 that inspired a new era of gay activism.
By Sarah Bahr
One quarter of all cultural institutions are dipping into their reserves or endowments to cover operating expenses. Mergers may be on the horizon.
By Zachary Small
As museums encounter increasing claims on their collections, experts say much of the debate hearkens back to 1815, when the Louvre was forced to surrender the spoils of war.
By Nina Siegal
Fifty-five years after Stonewall, a new tourist center suggests that what the riots stood for is old history. But is everything now OK?
By Holland Cotter
Explore a whiskey renaissance, tour the country’s oldest public library and brave a brisk sea dip in the Irish capital.
By Megan Specia
For Pride Month, we asked people ranging in age from 34 to 93 to share an indelible memory. Together, they offer a personal history of queer life as we know it today.
By Nicole Acheampong, Max Berlinger, Jason Chen, Kate Guadagnino, Colleen Hamilton, Mark Harris, Juan A. Ramírez, Coco Romack, Michael Snyder and John Wogan
At SFMOMA, the artist enacts a parable about trauma and healing in Black life — and makes her first foray into robotics. “I went down a little sci-fi rabbit hole the last couple years working on this piece.”
By Hilarie M. Sheets
Their street murals, monumental sculptures, intricate drawings and vivid paintings pop up at Lehmann Maupin gallery on the eve of their Hirshhorn debut.
By Jill Langlois
The small house in Washington was designed to sit lightly on the land: It touches the ground in only six places, and they didn’t cut down a single tree.
By Tim McKeough
Amid challenges in Hollywood, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences renewed its chief executive’s contract a year early.
By Robin Pogrebin
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American Ballet Theater brings Wayne McGregor’s “Woolf Works,” which evokes elements of three novels and the writer’s biography, to New York.
By Joshua Barone
The heat could not stop revelers from taking part in the pageantry of aquatic weirdness.
By Sean Piccoli
Working and living on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, they shatter entrenched ideas about beauty and good taste.
By Patricia Escárcega
Gov. Ron DeSantis gave no explanation for zeroing out the $32 million in grants that were approved by state lawmakers.
By Patricia Mazzei
A replica of the Athena Giustiniani that greeted students at Wells College for more than 150 years was accidentally decapitated in the scramble to close the institution forever.
By Annie Aguiar
The oil painting of a saint, looted from the castle in the closing weeks of World War II by the ducal family that once owned it, is being returned by a Buffalo museum.
By Catherine Hickley
“There’s more to me than only couture,” she said, previewing her first exhibition of sculpture. Catch it while you can: The show will last only 45 minutes.
By Nina Siegal
An uplifting new library in Manhattan comes with 12 floors of subsidized apartments. It’s a clever way to find community support for housing.
By Michael Kimmelman
For his latest art project, Javier Téllez makes eight Venezuelan migrants his collaborators on a film about power.
By Blake Gopnik
An exhibition in downtown Manhattan showcases more than a dozen grass-roots efforts to rebuild war-stricken cities.
By Jason Farago
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Lita Albuquerque redraws her “Malibu Line,” an ultra-vivid blue earthwork that connects earth, ocean and sky.
By Jori Finkel
The first major exhibition at H’Art, a former satellite of the Hermitage, explores how war and nationalism shaped the painter’s career.
By Nina Siegal
A volunteer search-and-rescue organization reported finding the monolith over the weekend near the Gass Peak trail, which is north of Las Vegas.
By Johnny Diaz
The best open storage adds personality to a room. Here’s how it’s done.
By Tim McKeough
Is the Mob Museum on your list? The writer and illustrator sees his new guide to North America’s museums as a way to help families plan their summer vacations.
By Amy Virshup
For a tiny apartment in London, the solution was a shape-shifting bank of custom cabinetry built on a tight budget.
By Tim McKeough
The lockdown phase of Covid was a nightmare for art fairs. Now, art fairs big and small are making plans to win back visitors — and dollars.
By Farah Nayeri
As museums and collectors wrestle with questions of ownership history, the organizers of this London fair say they carefully vet their dealers’ wares.
By Liz Robbins
Tadáskía, a Black trans artist who is only 30, is already stunning audiences with boundary-breaking work at MoMA, Art Basel and beyond.
By Ted Loos
Tech-savvy creators are flocking to New Inc. The focus is less on making art than on making it in a way that provides a living.
By Frank Rose
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The Minneapolis Institute of Art said it would not move forward with a show after the artist was accused of sexual misconduct, which he has denied.
By Alex Marshall and Robin Pogrebin
Stroll along the river, explore a contemporary art scene and admire panoramic views in this scenic Central European capital.
By Alex Crevar
She was a supremely gifted chameleon. But even in her striking new exhibition at Fotografiska, Maier remains in the shadows.
By Arthur Lubow
It was not a picture-perfect ending for the ambitious private venue, whose building is for sale. The museum is looking for another, with room for pictures and parties.
By Arthur Lubow
Joyce J. Scott’s 50-year retrospective at the Baltimore Museum of Art draws inspiration, beauty and humor from her hometown and its people.
By Aruna D’Souza
The Queens home of the Black inventor who contributed to the invention of the lightbulb gets an overdue makeover.
By Sam Roberts
At the prestigious fair, doing business at what one mega-dealer calls a “more human pace” can just mean “slower” for smaller galleries.
By Scott Reyburn
More diamonds isn’t enough. One jeweler is wowing sports teams with reversible faces and detachable compartments.
By Emmanuel Morgan
At the Art for Tomorrow conference in Venice, participants debated topics like art’s role in a just world and the good and dangerous effects of A.I.
By Farah Nayeri
Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Dublin’s Grafton Architects are forging a path in an industry that continues to be dominated by men.
By Farah Nayeri
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As tourists flood the lagoon city, Venice has suffered something of an identity crisis. Looking ahead, might art light the way forward?
By Laura Rysman
The new exhibition at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection includes drawings of nude men and a large-scale work done in pencil, chalk, crayon and blood.
By Hilarie M. Sheets
Sotheby’s is offering a recently surfaced 1846 daguerreotype of Dolley Madison, who is credited with inventing the role of first lady.
By Jennifer Schuessler
It didn’t help that it was straight out of ‘Twin Peaks’: ‘Wood on wood on wood, in a very terrifying way.’ But now it’s bright and airy.
By Tim McKeough
When the museum first opened, it was criticized for omitting Hollywood’s Jewish pioneers. Now it is under fire for what its new exhibit says about them.
By Robin Pogrebin
The Basel Social Club is a rebellious alternative to the more buttoned-up art fair that descends on the Swiss city of Basel each year.
By Thomas Rogers
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