Art
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Magazine
Should We Keep Paying for Our Ungrateful Son to Join Us on Family Vacations?
Unsatisfied with her middle-aged son’s meager displays of gratitude, a reader wonders whether to stop footing his bill for a…
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News
In This Exhibition, Gender Meets Climate Activism. It’s a Lot.
A sprawling show at the Barbican Art Gallery in London presents works under the banner of “ecofeminism,” linking women’s oppression…
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News
Yayoi Kusama Apologizes for Past Racist Remarks
Revelations from the artist’s autobiography threaten to cloud her new show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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Magazine
What Happens When an Artist’s Technology Becomes Obsolete?
Curators and conservators are working to save — and update — art made with aging hardware.
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World
‘Kidnapped’: Fliers Express Artists’ Anguish Over Israeli Hostages
In New York and in cities around the world, stark posters with photos are bringing attention to those who were…
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News
How Six Italian Brothers Shaped the Story of New York
Few people have shaped the streetscape of New York as prominently as the stone-carving Piccirilli brothers, six Italian immigrants who…
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News
Is a Women’s Museum Still Relevant?
The National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington reopens Oct. 21 after a renovation and the loss of…
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News
At 20, Frieze London Is a Different Fair for a Changed City
The event has become unashamedly commercial, and the quirky moments that defined earlier editions have gone.
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World
A Painting Stolen in Glasgow Returns More Than 30 Years Later
Thieves in Scotland made off with the painting “Children Wading” in 1989. The work was recently returned after showing up…
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News
When the Turner Prize Came to ‘God’s Waiting Room’
The town of Eastbourne, England, hopes the contemporary art prize can help it shake off a geriatric image, and bring…