With “Scratching the Back,” the artist creates the most colorful and unsettling Facade Commission yet, chipping away at the gray stones of the museum.
By Roberta Smith
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CreditRuth Asawa Lanier, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York,via David Zwirner and the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, photo by Laurence Cuneo.
The sculptor of sublimely coiled wire helped erase boundaries between art, craft and the decorative arts. A long-awaited show of drawings at the Whitney explores her luminous connections.
In his first show of new work in over a decade, he has been occupied with a single subject: a portrait of a woman, in which he finds endless variation and human emotion.
The “Time Pyramid” is being assembled slowly by the residents of a German town, who can scarcely imagine the world in which the artwork will be completed.
A Dutch exhibition brings together items taken in colonial times, by Napoleon’s army and by the Nazis to argue there isn’t one solution to restitution.
Want to see new art in New York this weekend? Check out an exhibition at Mishkin Gallery that pays homage to Puerto Rican art. And at MoMA PS1, in Queens, two artists explore their Aymaran roots.
By Travis Diehl, Martha Schwendener, Jillian Steinhauer, Will Heinrich, John Vincler, Seph Rodney, Holland Cotter, Arthur Lubow and Blake Gopnik
A woman found a rare N.C. Wyeth illustration while rummaging though frames at a Savers in New Hampshire. Now the piece is expected to draw a significant sum at auction.
Guy Wildenstein, the billionaire art dealer, is accused of shielding a prized art collection from tax authorities to avoid a hefty inheritance bill. The case has dogged his family for more than a decade.
The downtown institution, which generates scholarly yet accessible art shows, is moving east to Cooper Square and reopening next year as the Grey Art Museum.
The Reina Sofía museum in Madrid has lifted its ban on photographing “Guernica,” saying it hopes to enhance the experience for those viewing the antiwar painting.
Mara Manus, after seven years at the New York State Council on the Arts, will become chief executive of a cultural center reaching for the stars — literally.
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