Why has this relatively simple form of sculpture been so fraught with meaning and symbolism over the centuries? The Kasmin Gallery has some ideas.Why has…
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What’s in Our Queue? ‘The Expanse’
I’m a senior staff editor for the Arts & Leisure section. Here are five things I’ve been watching, reading and listening to.I’m a senior staff…
View More What’s in Our Queue? ‘The Expanse’Sundance 2021 Guide: Bundle Up and Settle in on Your Sofa
Now that the film festival has gone virtual, you can watch like an insider. But where do you start? If you liked previous hits from…
View More Sundance 2021 Guide: Bundle Up and Settle in on Your SofaGreat Stage Acting Shines Through, Even From a Laptop Screen
The Lessingtage theater festival, held online this year because of the pandemic, shows some of Europe’s finest performers, in classic plays by Brecht, Schiller, Ibsen…
View More Great Stage Acting Shines Through, Even From a Laptop ScreenMoMA Photography Curator to Lead Aperture Foundation
Sarah Meister has been named executive director of the nonprofit organization that supports and promotes the art of photography.Sarah Meister has been named executive director…
View More MoMA Photography Curator to Lead Aperture FoundationOutsider Art Fair, Smaller This Year, but a Model for the Future
A scaled-back lineup includes Daniel Johnston’s colorfully nightmarish drawings, plus chunky clay cameras and quilts as abstract as anything in the MoMA.A scaled-back lineup includes…
View More Outsider Art Fair, Smaller This Year, but a Model for the FutureSotheby’s Auctions $80 Million Botticelli ‘Young Man’ Painting
“Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel” dates to around 1480, and its sale is the art market’s biggest test of the new year.“Portrait…
View More Sotheby’s Auctions $80 Million Botticelli ‘Young Man’ PaintingThe Great Beginning of Jules Olitski
The artist’s earliest Color Field paintings, with their indomitable colors, austere compositions and wild pictorial spaces, are among the movement’s signal achievements.The artist’s earliest Color…
View More The Great Beginning of Jules OlitskiArlo Parks Offers Solace Without Illusions on Her Debut Album
The 20-year-old English songwriter faces down despair on “Collapsed in Sunbeams.”The 20-year-old English songwriter faces down despair on “Collapsed in Sunbeams.”Read MorePop and Rock Music,…
View More Arlo Parks Offers Solace Without Illusions on Her Debut Album10 Classical Concerts to Stream in February
A Tyshawn Sorey premiere and lots of Kurt Weill from Berlin are among the highlights.A Tyshawn Sorey premiere and lots of Kurt Weill from Berlin…
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