Critic’s Notebook
Common Ground, and Conflict, Between 2 Stars of Land Art
A retrospective pairing Teresita Fernández and Robert Smithson shows they share sympathetic, deep engagement with geology and civilization.
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CreditZach Chambers After ‘a Treasure Hunt,’ a Cut-Up Masterpiece Returns to Venice
More than 200 years after a ceiling painted by the Tuscan artist Vasari was dismembered and sold on the antiquarian market, it is (almost) whole again.
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Don’t Call It a Protest. It’s a Walk for Radical Love.
María Magdalena Campos-Pons is marshaling New Yorkers for unity, linking uptown and downtown communities while highlighting inequities in city parks.
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‘The Americans’ Made the Photographer Robert Frank a Star. What Came Next?
MoMA’s centenary exhibition of the artist revered for a groundbreaking book makes the case for his later work.
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A Double Homage for James Baldwin’s 100th. Will It Ever Be Enough?
At the New York Public Library, two exhibitions add little to a very public writer’s mystique. But our critic dived deeper.
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CreditPhotograph by Richard Avedon/The Richard Avedon Foundation; Jeenah Moon for The New York Times Critic’s NotebookA New Perspective on Van Gogh’s Final Flowering
A major exhibition in London focuses on the painter’s final years, finding new feelings in some of his most famous works.
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Creditvia National Gallery of Art, Washington Art ReviewLongtime MoMA Director Will Step Down Next Year
After 30 years at the helm of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Glenn Lowry will depart in September 2025.
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CreditJutharat Pinyodoonyachet for The New York Times Are Art and Science Forever Divided? Or Are They One and the Same?
The sprawling California festival “PST Art” promises a dialogue between “two cultures.” But painting and physics may have more in common than their practitioners know.
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Creditvia The Wellcome Collection’s Open Access Program; Museum Associates/LACMA Fall PreviewWhat to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in September
This week in Newly Reviewed, Andrew Russeth covers a group show of self-portraits, Gina Beavers’s collaged sculptures and Hannah Villiger’s beguiling photographs.
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A Derelict Townhouse Becomes a D.I.Y. Wonderland
How a collective of artists turned a crumbling Brussels building into their own creative playground.
By Ellie Pithers and Philippe Braquenier
On LocationTrading New York for Michigan and a Home With ‘Fun Pops of Color’
Many of their friends from Grand Rapids were “moving back home and telling us how great it was.” So they followed suit.
By Tim McKeough
Gallery Owner Sentenced in Fine Art Photography Swindle
Wendy Halsted Beard, 59, agreed to sell photography prints on behalf of older collectors. She kept the profits for herself.
By Annie Aguiar
Who Says Your Couch Can’t Match Your Sweater?
Bold colors and bright patterns mark the first collaboration between the fashion house Clare V. and the home goods company Schoolhouse.
By Aileen Kwun
A Famous Churchill Portrait, Stolen in Canada and Found in Italy
A forgery delayed the discovery of the theft of the photograph long enough for it to be sold at an auction in London.
By Ian Austen
36 Hours36 Hours in Lima, Peru
Swim with sea lions, cycle along the coast, and gorge on ceviche and fried-fish sandwiches in Peru’s underappreciated capital.
By Bianca Padró Ocasio
Art Museum Fires 3 Employees for Wearing Kaffiyehs
The Noguchi Museum said the headscarves, a symbol of Palestinian identity, violated a dress code that recently banned “political messages, slogans or symbols.”
By Marc Tracy
Fall PreviewIn Montana, This Wheat Field Is Art
An acre of wheat designed by the artist Agnes Denes has cropped up at a new exhibition space in Montana, where agriculture is rapidly giving way to development.
By Travis Diehl and Will Warasila
The FixIt’s Hard to Beat a Cozy Window Seat in the Fall
The best ones have several things in common, according to the pros. Here’s how to design yours.
By Tim McKeough
Fall PreviewAmy Sherald, Brazen Optimist
In an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the artist known for her portraits of Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor is showing how much else she can do.
By Nancy Princenthal and Dana Scruggs
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