Follow New York Times - Art & Design, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/new-york-times-d-art Tue, 31 Jan 2023 01:33:27 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/EydA0HnyhAy_3vK9K9ickezdsCmHakzH It’s no longer enough to like our favorite artists’ works. By putting on Hopper’s fedora, Picasso’s striped shirt, Warhol’s wig or Kahlo’s colorful couture, we want to become their avatars.]]> Mon, 30 Jan 2023 20:37:27 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/EydA0HnyhAy_3vK9K9ickezdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/EydA0HnyhAwtLhMnV6ltepVjH6qdYdAk The museum says the painting’s owner, who sold it after fleeing Nazi Germany, made a “fair transaction.” His heirs say he sold under duress.]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2023 17:00:05 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/EydA0HnyhAwtLhMnV6ltepVjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/EydA0HnyhAzSLTsQBy-r4uzdsCmHakzH In a creative departure, the artist Kenneth Tam spent the last year creating sculptures that honor the lives of Chinese laborers in Texas who helped build the country’s railroad system.The artist Kenneth Tam’s latest project centers on the little-known history of the Chinese migrant laborers who helped build the American railroads in the 19th century.]]> Thu, 26 Jan 2023 18:02:37 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/EydA0HnyhAzSLTsQBy-r4uzdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/EydA0HnyhAw5IKZSyg-SnOT5HJgy6HUf Helen Molesworth charts a new course with podcasts and a show at the International Center of Photography focusing on artists’ images of artists.Helen Molesworth, who curated “Face to Face: Portraits of Artists by Tacita Dean, Brigitte Lacombe and Catherine Opie,” at the International Center of Photography. From left, Eileen, 2009 (Catherine Opie); Fran Lebowitz, 2010 (Brigitte Lacombe) and Joan Didion, 2005 (Lacombe).]]> Wed, 25 Jan 2023 21:43:47 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/EydA0HnyhAw5IKZSyg-SnOT5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/EydA0HnyhAxwazqiRtfv3-zdsCmHakzH The exhibit at the Resistance Museum in Amsterdam was designed to be a more nuanced look at Dutch wartime experiences, but it has been accused of downplaying the heroism of some and the sins of others.]]> Wed, 25 Jan 2023 20:12:53 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/EydA0HnyhAxwazqiRtfv3-zdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/EydA0HnyhAxyrff2MylHY5s0ohxaO6Yr The artist Shahzia Sikander calls her eight-foot sculpture, the first female figure atop a powerful New York appellate courthouse, an urgent form of “resistance.”]]> Wed, 25 Jan 2023 12:00:23 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/EydA0HnyhAxyrff2MylHY5s0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/EydA0HnyhAxyrff2MylHY11cWWor9YPv Myrlande Constant’s tapestries, drawn from Haitian Vodou traditions, take textile art to new heights with exhibitions in New York and Los Angeles.Myrlande Constant at Fort Gansevoort gallery in Manhattan in front of one her intricate tapestries. “Everything must be placed very particularly to reflect the vision,” she said.]]> Wed, 25 Jan 2023 12:00:22 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/EydA0HnyhAxyrff2MylHY11cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/EydA0HnyhAyNIZZDU3Po-l1cWWor9YPv Asma Naeem, raised in Baltimore, will lead the city’s pre-eminent art museum as it faces unionization and equity efforts.]]> Tue, 24 Jan 2023 21:00:06 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/EydA0HnyhAyNIZZDU3Po-l1cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/EydA0HnyhAwMQoumjls7WeT5HJgy6HUf The gift of 220 artworks from the artist’s foundation to the august Metropolitan Museum of Art seems at odds with the institution it hopes to become.]]> Mon, 23 Jan 2023 21:58:23 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/EydA0HnyhAwMQoumjls7WeT5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/EydA0HnyhAzfP997Ah5ww-T5HJgy6HUf The gift of 220 artworks from the artist’s foundation to the august Metropolitan Museum of Art seems at odds with the institution it hopes to become.]]> Mon, 23 Jan 2023 21:33:20 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/EydA0HnyhAzfP997Ah5ww-T5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/EydA0HnyhAwak3lBo1W6caCY3L745TL_ Claudia Andujar has photographed the Yanomami in the Amazon during a lifetime of activism. At 91, she is still helping protect their rainforest homeland.]]> Fri, 20 Jan 2023 12:00:37 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/EydA0HnyhAwak3lBo1W6caCY3L745TL_ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/EydA0HnyhAw1bZP8v5cDh-zdsCmHakzH Back to its home in the Park Avenue Armory, the fair offers one-of-a-kind art from America’s earliest known free Black painter, and even a marble skull.Bettina Jackson Cantador touches up the frame of Marietta Robusti’s 16th-century “Portrait of a Lady” at the Robert Simon Fine Art booth at the Winter Show 2023.]]> Thu, 19 Jan 2023 22:13:15 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/EydA0HnyhAw1bZP8v5cDh-zdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/EydA0HnyhAy5d84lonaGouT5HJgy6HUf A riveting show at the Metropolitan Museum surveys the complicated art of the ancient Maya, in which beauty and brutality are surreally entangled.“Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has more than 100 objects, a Mesoamerican survey of a scale not seen in years. Left, Monument 155 and Monument 180 feature sculptures of captured Lords impersonating jaguar deities, 700 A.D.]]> Thu, 19 Jan 2023 17:56:11 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/EydA0HnyhAy5d84lonaGouT5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/EydA0HnyhAwxSK4b0IuiIZVjH6qdYdAk The Indian artist’s physical approach to making and presenting pictures chimes with their intimate content, as the largest exhibition of her work to date shows.Singh in her Delhi studio.]]> Thu, 19 Jan 2023 00:16:15 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/EydA0HnyhAwxSK4b0IuiIZVjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/EydA0HnyhAyA3Pi_L0-Zm6CY3L745TL_ They were crazy, cramped, messy and threatening — but the Happenings of the early 60s just might be the missing link between Dada and today’s immersive art.Whitman started out wanting to become a playwright but found that “the energy and dynamism of Abstract Expressionism kind of hit you over the head.”]]> Wed, 18 Jan 2023 23:45:50 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/EydA0HnyhAyA3Pi_L0-Zm6CY3L745TL_ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/EydA0HnyhAwtvKaf-maeNezdsCmHakzH The owner of a painting and a gallery had sued Peter Doig, insisting he falsely denied creating the work. But a federal judge ordered sanctions after ruling there was no evidence of that.The owner of this painting and a gallery sued Peter Doig, the artist, insisting he had falsely denied creating it. But Mr. Doig won the case and the judge has awarded him damages.]]> Wed, 18 Jan 2023 01:33:31 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/EydA0HnyhAwtvKaf-maeNezdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/EydA0HnyhAy_vdHIGg-6fV1cWWor9YPv The British Museum and Greece’s prime minister are getting closer to a deal on returning the so-called Elgin Marbles to Athens. But key differences remain.]]> Tue, 17 Jan 2023 12:00:28 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/EydA0HnyhAy_vdHIGg-6fV1cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/EydA0HnyhAyyd-f2PIBEv11cWWor9YPv Paintings from before 1850, once a bedrock of the market, now account for just a tiny percentage of auction sales. Instead, buyers want works by living artists with a strong Instagram presence.]]> Mon, 16 Jan 2023 19:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/EydA0HnyhAyyd-f2PIBEv11cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/EydA0HnyhAz3BOq8adr10F1cWWor9YPv The politically engaged artist, whose work is now on display at the Guggenheim Museum, talks about his new line of fabrics.]]> Mon, 16 Jan 2023 15:00:07 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/EydA0HnyhAz3BOq8adr10F1cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/EydA0HnyhAzFralqNKI5f6CY3L745TL_ The bronze sculpture, by the artist Hank Willis Thomas, symbolizes the hug Dr. King and Coretta Scott King shared after Dr. King won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize.]]> Mon, 16 Jan 2023 02:10:16 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/EydA0HnyhAzFralqNKI5f6CY3L745TL_