Critic’s Pick
A Masterpiece of Fiction Inspires the Urge to Submerge in a Gallery Crawl
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.
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The Dazzling Artistry of Hiroshige’s ‘100 Famous Views of Edo’
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.
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Why Can’t New York Make a Proper Monument to Gay History?
Fifty-five years after Stonewall, a new tourist center suggests that what the riots stood for is old history. But is everything now OK?
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CreditSara Hylton for The New York Times Amid Challenges, Small New York City Museums Are Closing Their Doors
One quarter of all cultural institutions are dipping into their reserves or endowments to cover operating expenses. Mergers may be on the horizon.
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Napoleon’s Loot: When the World Decided Stolen Art Should Go Back
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.
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CreditGetty Images 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.”
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CreditMarissa Leshnov for The New York Times Osgemeos Rocked Brazil. Can the Graffiti Twins Take New York?
Their street murals, monumental sculptures, intricate drawings and vivid paintings pop up at Lehmann Maupin gallery on the eve of their Hirshhorn debut.
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CreditGabriela Portilho for The New York Times Amsterdam Museum to Return a Matisse Work Sold Under Duress in World War II
The painting, “Odalisque,” was sold to the Stedelijk Museum in the early 1940s by a German-Jewish family desperate to escape the Nazis.
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CreditSuccession Henri Matisse, via Pictoright Amsterdam/Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam 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.
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He Won the Turner Prize. But Does He Still Want to Be an Artist?
Jesse Darling is so disillusioned with the art world that he just isn’t sure.
By Thomas Rogers
Art ReviewIt’s Still Barbie’s World
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
Art ReviewReynaldo Rivera Brings the Underground Into the Gallery
This artist’s indispensable archive of queer and Latino life on display at MoMA PS 1 leaves us intoxicated by the energy of a world too long under the radar.
By Zoë Hopkins
How To: Arrange FlowersThe Simplest (and Cheapest) Way to Decorate With Flowers
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
Critic’s NotebookThe Wide, Wide World of Judy Chicago
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
You See a Hedge. He Sees Something Else.
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
A French Museum Collides With New Jersey Politics
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
San Francisco’s Arts Institutions Are Slowly Building Back
Although attendance remains down from prepandemic levels, the city’s arts groups are having some success getting audiences to return.
By Robin Pogrebin
National Portrait Gallery Buys Dolley Madison Photo for $456,000
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
What Does Anxiety Look Like? How Pixar Created the ‘Inside Out 2’ Villain
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
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