Without Drama or Banana, Art Auctions Struggle
Beyond the headline-grabbing sales of the fall auction season, the market tries to soar beyond its two-year slump.
By Zachary SmallScott Reyburn and


Beyond the headline-grabbing sales of the fall auction season, the market tries to soar beyond its two-year slump.
By Zachary SmallScott Reyburn and
Ouattara Watts stayed under the radar for decades. He’s back at Karma Gallery in New York and at the Currier Museum of Art, where he shares a stage with Jean-Michel.
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Answers to six immediate questions you might have about the art world after a crypto entrepreneur spent millions on a 35-cent fruit.
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The Austrian Expressionist’s portraits and erotically charged nudes have masked another side of his career: his eccentric landscapes.
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Who’s Laughing Now? Banana-as-Art Sells for $6.2 Million at Sotheby’s
A conceptual artwork by Maurizio Cattelan, “Comedian,” is just a fruit-stand banana taped on the wall. But 7 bidders were biting. It went to a crypto entrepreneur.
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The Artist, the Gallerist and Their Liver
Far from the dizzying auctions, splashy galas and angling dealers, a precious gift sheds light on a gentler way the art world works.
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Robert Frank, a Filmmaker Who Never Stopped Changing
The photographer renounced his first career to focus on filmmaking. Starting Wednesday, the Museum of Modern Art will stage a cinema retrospective of his uncompromising search for the real.
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At the Met, Black Artists Salute an Enduring Affinity With Egypt
A shimmering dream on the Nile has inspired creativity from the Harlem Renaissance to Kara Walker to Beyoncé. But how much can you play with the past?
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What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in November
This week in Newly Reviewed, Jillian Steinhauer covers Narcisa Hirsch’s impressionistic films, Janet Olivia Henry’s doll characters and a group show that takes on TV.
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A museum in Marseille, France, has a show dedicated to the history of social nudity. On a few special nights, visitors strolled around naked, too.
By Amelia Nierenberg
Two designers created a unique home that they hope makes visitors feel like they’re in an alternate world.
By Tim McKeough
A speech by the artist at an exhibition of her work was followed by protests from her supporters and an uproar in the news media.
By Alex Marshall
In his mission to document the earth’s food supply, George Steinmetz recovers the human element in aerial photography — and in farming. Ahead of his new book, he brings our critic into the field.
By Walker Mimms
A portrait by the artist had a public debut in Rome on Friday, after decades hidden away in a private collection. Now Italy wants to buy it.
By Elisabetta Povoledo
Tired of the featureless white cube, curators and dealers are staging shows in the most personal spaces of all: their homes.
By Kin Woo
Nora Burnett Abrams, the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, will take over from Jill Medvedow in the spring.
By Hilarie M. Sheets
Move over, Picasso, van Gogh and Warhol. With an inscrutable painting, the Belgian painter breaks a nine-figure threshold at Christie’s fall auction.
By Scott Reyburn
Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst are presenting their first large-scale solo museum show. It sounds gorgeous, even if its visual elements are lacking.
By Emily LaBarge
The Armory’s upcoming season also includes the world premiere of “DOOM,” a new work from the Golden Lion winner Anne Imhof.
By Annie Aguiar
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