Art
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Arts
At 20, Frieze London Is a Different Fair for a Changed City
The event has become unashamedly commercial, and the quirky moments that defined earlier editions have gone.
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World
A Painting Stolen in Glasgow Returns More Than 30 Years Later
Thieves in Scotland made off with the painting “Children Wading” in 1989. The work was recently returned after showing up…
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Arts
When the Turner Prize Came to ‘God’s Waiting Room’
The town of Eastbourne, England, hopes the contemporary art prize can help it shake off a geriatric image, and bring…
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Arts
Alabama Sculpture Park Aims to Look at Slavery Without Flinching
The new Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, opening in early 2024 in Montgomery, Ala., arrives at a time when Black history…
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News
Country Roads, Coastal Views and Autumn’s Bounty in Rhode Island
“We’re growing a small business and learning as we go,” said Claire Bowen as she arranged bushels of sweet and…
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Books
Looking to the Dutch Masters for Answers to Life’s Big Questions
THE UPSIDE-DOWN WORLD: Meetings With the Dutch Masters, by Benjamin Moser When he moved from New York to the Netherlands…
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World
Turmoil Engulfs Canadian Art Museums Seeking to Shed Colonial Past
One of the fiercest fights in the past year in Canada has taken place not in a hockey rink, but…
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World
El Anatsui Builds Monumental Art From Daily Life
It’s one of the great origin stories in contemporary art, a flash of instinct that would revolutionize a field. In…
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Arts
Harry Smith Was a Culture-Altering Shaman. Can the Whitney Contain Him?
A solo show takes on the legacy of the painter, folk musicologist, filmmaker, obsessive collector and underground legend. It also…
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News
A Dazzling Art Collection, Hiding in Plain Sight
The sign on the wall suggests: “Look above you.” But really, no prompt is needed. It is impossible not to…