Art
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Arts
As the Art World Watches, an Oligarch Takes an Auction House to Court
At trial next week, Dmitry Rybolovlev is set to accuse Sotheby’s of helping an art dealer trick him into wildly…
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Arts
Frick Leader to Step Down After a 14-Year Run
Having seen the museum’s controversial renovation through to completion, Ian Wardropper plans to retire in 2025.
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World
Queen Margrethe II of Denmark to Step Down
Margrethe, the longest-serving monarch in Europe, announced during her New Year’s speech that she would abdicate her throne in January.…
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News
An Artist in Residence on A.I.’s Territory
At a reception for OpenAI’s first developer conference in San Francisco last month, a crowd mingled, wine in hand, as…
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Her Sculptures Were Ignored for 33 Years. Then She Got a New Roommate.
Hanna Eshel waited more than 40 years for a stroke of luck in her art career. The pivotal event, when…
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Arts
Botticelli, Beyond the Renaissance
Viewers gravitate to his astonishingly tender paintings, but at the Legion of Honor, his preparatory drawings offer a view of…
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Arts
Two Watershed Shows About 1993 Help Make Sense of 2023
A blue-chip gallery asks, does the infamous Whitney Biennial or “The Theater of Refusal” measure up 30 years later, when…
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World
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 can’t let our imaginations…
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News
Pope.L, Provocative Performance Artist, Dies at 68
He is best known for crawling along the entirety of Broadway in Manhattan wearing a Superman costume, a work that…
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Giovanni Anselmo, a Leader of the Arte Povera Movement, Dies at 89
An artist of many mediums, he used a vast array of materials, including stone, paint, piles of earth and even…