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    Andrew Crispo, Disgraced Manhattan Gallery Owner, Dies at 78

    His fall from the pinnacle of the New York art world involved murder, torture, tax evasion,...

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    Empty Frames and Other Oddities From the Unsolved Gardner Museum Heist

    After 34 years, not one of the 13 works stolen during the largest art theft in...

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    Rubin Museum, Haven for Asian Art, to Close After 20 Years

    It is the first major art museum in New York to close within recent memory. The...

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    National Gallery of Art Receives Major Gift of Works by Joseph Cornell

    Collectors give the museum 27 box constructions and collages by the homebody artist who rarely left...

  • Indiana University Cancels Palestinian Artist Samia Halaby’s Exhibition

    Samia Halaby, an 87-year-old artist, has been outspoken in her support of Palestinians during the Israel-Gaza...

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    Using the Wyeth Art She Reveres to Rebuild a Lost Maine Waterfront

    An heiress to the L.L. Bean fortune who made the paintings of N.C., Andrew and Jamie...

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    Her Sculptures Were Ignored for 33 Years. Then She Got a New Roommate.

    Hanna Eshel did not succeed in the New York art world. Her only reliable exhibit space...

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    Pope.L, Provocative Performance Artist, Dies at 68

    He is best known for crawling along the entirety of Broadway in Manhattan wearing a Superman...

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    A.I. Can Make Art That Feels Human. Whose Fault Is That?

    A fake Drake/Weeknd mash-up is not a threat to our species’s culture. It’s a warning: We...

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    Goodwill Vase Sold for $3.99 Fetches More Than $100,000 at Auction

    When Jessica Vincent bought a vase at a Goodwill store in Virginia, she had no idea...

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    Jeff Koons Killed Her Review

    The decision by an arts journal to allow the famous artist to veto a historian’s essay...

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    Best Art of 2023

    In addition to its impressionist matchup “Manet/Degas,” the Met unveiled Lauren Halsey’s spectacular new rooftop installation....

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    An Artist Shattering Boundaries in Pursuit of Freedom

    Corrado Cagli, an artist of the 1920s through the 1970s, is still defying categories like “Italian...

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    Conservatives Called Her Artwork ‘Obscene.’ She’s Back for More.

    Karen Finley, one of the N.E.A. Four, revisits culture wars 25 years after a Supreme Court...

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    How Artists Are Breaking the Taboos Around Depicting Birth

    For centuries, labor was deemed too messy a subject for gallery walls. A growing canon of...

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    Turner Prize Goes to Jesse Darling, a Sculptor of Mangled Objects

    The artist won the major British art award on Tuesday for works that warp commonplace items...

  • ‘Walk on Through’ Review: Dispatches, in Song, From a Museum Novice

    In his new show, Gavin Creel sings about the wonders of visiting the Metropolitan Museum of...

  • Guggenheim Lays Off 10 Employees as Museums Face Fiscal Challenges

    A growing number of museums around the country have raised admission fees and cut staff to...

  • When Women Artists Choose Mothering Over Making Work

    Why does the act of stepping away from a creative vocation still have the power to...

  • What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in December

    Want to see new art in New York this weekend? Check out a Picasso tribute or...

  • Grace Wales Bonner Summons the Spirit Movers in Her MoMA Show

    The London-based designer’s Artist’s Choice exhibition evokes the styles, forms and sounds of the African diaspora.

  • ‘Southern/Modern’: Radical Art Below the Mason-Dixon Line

    In the first half of the 20th century, socially conscious artists in the South were great...