Murals Have Moved In
The expansive wall art, which has mostly been out on the streets over the last few decades, is returning to its cave-dwelling origins: homes.
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Koyo Kouoh, Prominent Art World Figure, Is Dead at 57
She had recently been named to oversee next year’s Venice Biennale. She died just days before she was scheduled to announce its theme and title.
A Small West African Country Has Big Artistic Dreams
Starting an art biennale in a small country with virtually no galleries and no art schools — not even a formal shop to frame paintings and photographs — could have seemed impossible, the stuff only of dreams. But that’s exactly what a group of five …
‘My Robot Sophia’: An Unsettling Look Into the Soul of a Machine
This film by Jon Kasbe and Crystal Moselle skirts gimmicks to examine a creator’s drive to build a humanoid device powered by artificial intelligence.
Tate Modern Is the Museum of the Century (Like It or Not)
When the Museum of Modern Art debuted in a Manhattan townhouse in 1929, it faced incomprehension from audiences still uncomfortable with abstract art. When the Centre Georges Pompidou inaugurated its inside-out home in Paris in 1977, philosophers …
On the Chopping Block: Arts and Humanities
More from our inbox: Trump’s Threat of Tariffs on Films Made AbroadA group of officials at the National Endowment for the Arts are resigning. Credit…Graeme Sloan/Sipa via Associated PressTo the Editor: Re “Trump Seeks to Eliminate the National …
‘Sinners’ and Beyoncé Battle the Vampires. And the Gatekeepers, Too.
This moment might call for excessive, imaginative Black art that wants to be gobbled up. That’s Ryan Coogler’s new movie. That’s “Cowboy Carter.” Let’s throw in some Kendrick, too.
Melissa Toogood Named New Director of Juilliard’s Dance Division
A member of Merce Cunningham’s final company, Toogood brings to the job years of experience as a dancer and educator.
The New York Nonprofit Where Generations of Artists Got Their Start
The 212 column revisits New York institutions that have helped define the city, from time-honored restaurants to unsung dives. CURRENTLY PROJECTED ON the walls at Artists Space, a nonprofit arts organization in TriBeCa, are two films by Carolyn …
In an Exhibition of Native Artists, Clichés Give Way to Charged Memories
“Smoke in Our Hair” features 22 artists who boldly challenge the romanticism that often tinges American fables of the nation’s birth and expansion.
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