Cookie Mueller’s stories and a new documentary from Laura Poitras recreate the fashionable degeneracy of 1980s New York
The history of a remarkable artwork celebrating the creation of the State of Israel, born in Hawaii and Berlin, and recovered from the basement of a youth services center in Connecticut
Italian historian Carlo Vecce set out to debunk rumors of da Vinci’s foreign origins, but a newly discovered document changed his mind
An interview with author and artist Maira Kalman
An aging art critic educates Gen Z on Jimi Hendrix, the pleasures of Adderall, and the mystery of Gerald Laing, the forgotten pioneer of pop art
Lessons from a half-century in the art world
I bid goodbye to my boxes
Tablet brings back an early profile of the great Soviet dissident artist who has died at age 90
Was Frida Kahlo Jewish, and does it matter? A blockbuster show at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum brings the Mexican artist’s contradictions to life.
ArtSugar offers affordable art online, with 5 percent of proceeds donated to a charity of the buyer’s choosing
A dispatch from David Levinthal’s doll-house diorama factory, where the photographer plays with the line between real and pretend
A pair of exhibits, one at Harvard Art Museums, the other at New York’s Neue Galerie, try to read the signs of a coming conflagration and its attendant guilt in works made under the rise and fall of National Socialism
Brought to New York by the National Library of Israel, the show celebrates both romance and reason
Delirium in New York, Asterix in Paris, laughs in Minneapolis
Hannukah mayhem in Austin, the Coen brothers in New York, screens in San Francisco
Postcards in Amherst, murals in Dallas, ‘Fiddler’ in Berkeley
Amy Winehouse in Australia, Ronit Elkabetz in Holon, Nathan Englander in Vancouver
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