Art
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An Exhibition of Orcs and Elves Has Rome Abuzz, and Bewildered
Italy’s Culture Ministry has opened a curious show dedicated to the life and works of J.R.R. Tolkien — and perhaps…
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Resignations Roil Documenta Show as War in Gaza Polarizes Art World
The entire team in charge of selecting the leading avant-garde exhibition’s next curator has now resigned, putting the future of…
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George Tscherny, Whose Graphic Designs Defined an Era, Is Dead at 99
With a bevy of corporate and institutional clients, he helped shape the visual language of the postwar American economy.
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Kerry James Marshall’s Prints Throw Blackness Into Relief
“I am not one who goes in much for magical thinking,” the painter Kerry James Marshall wrote in 2018. “Material…
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Style
Grace Wales Bonner Has Set Her Sights Beyond Fashion
Grace Wales Bonner’s approach to fashion can sometimes feel more like that of an academic rather than a designer. Her…
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For Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Hair Is Rooted in Pride
The Philadelphia artist’s show at Artists Space considers how hair cutting, grooming and caregiving help create a Black queer community.
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Robert Irwin Helped Us See the Light
Being with Irwin as he watched and questioned everything around him, I learned that a work of art succeeds when…
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World
Robert Brustein, Passionate Force in Nonprofit Theater, Dies at 96
A critic and dramatist himself, he started repertory companies at Yale and Harvard and fiercely defended the art form, even…
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Ida Applebroog, Whose Art Confronted Relationships, Dies at 93
She developed a varied but recognizable style in multiple mediums, characterized by the raw, mordant humor of a woman under…
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The Good. The Bad. The Ugly. Inside Berlusconi’s Art Collection.
The Italian media mogul bought up some 25,000 paintings, many on TV shopping binges, before he died this year. Now…