Art
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Books
Like His Illustrations, Leo Lionni Contained Multitudes
Before side hustles went mainstream, Leo Lionni was a multitasker — and a compartmentalizer. Best known as the writer and…
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News
Martha Diamond, Painter Who Captured New York Vistas, Dies at 79
Her work, at the border of representation and abstraction, cast a strong influence over younger painters but did not gain…
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Arts
Brooklyn Museum, Courting Pop-Culture Icons, Readies for Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz
Next month, over 100 works by Black art stars from the couple’s collection will travel to the Great Hall for…
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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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Finance
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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News
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…