Art and Design

Highlights

  1. Critic’s Pick

    On the Met Roof, Skywriting His Way to Freedom

    Petrit Halilaj of Kosovo began drawing as a refugee child in the Balkans during a violent decade and invented a calligraphic world of memory.

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     “Abetare (Spider),” a stainless steel sculpture by Petrit Halilaj for his Met Roof Garden commission opening Tuesday. “Abetare” was the name of an illustrated alphabetic primer, written in the Albanian language, which the artist, now 38, had learned as a child.
     “Abetare (Spider),” a stainless steel sculpture by Petrit Halilaj for his Met Roof Garden commission opening Tuesday. “Abetare” was the name of an illustrated alphabetic primer, written in the Albanian language, which the artist, now 38, had learned as a child.
    CreditHiroko Masuike/The New York Times
    1. Critic’s Notebook

      The Venice Biennale and the Art of Turning Backward

      Every art institution now speaks of progress, justice, transformation. What if all those words hide a more old-fashioned aim?

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      Paintings by 20th-century artists hang cheek by jowl in the Central Pavilion of the 2024 Venice Biennale. The nude at center left was painted by the pioneering Brazilian artist Tarsila do Amaral.
      Paintings by 20th-century artists hang cheek by jowl in the Central Pavilion of the 2024 Venice Biennale. The nude at center left was painted by the pioneering Brazilian artist Tarsila do Amaral.
      CreditCasey Kelbaugh for The New York Times
  1. Chicago Museum Says Investigators Have No Evidence Art Was Looted

    In a court filing, the Art Institute of Chicago fought Manhattan prosecutors’ efforts to seize an important Egon Schiele drawing, denying that the Nazis had stolen it.

     By Graham Bowley and

    “Russian War Prisoner,” a drawing by Egon Schiele from 1916 that is now held by the Art Institute of Chicago.
    CreditArt Institute of Chicago
  2. For Sale: A Rare Klimt Portrait, Valued at $32 Million. But of Whom?

    The painting’s re-emergence after decades has come with a swirl of questions about its subject, one of three related teenage girls.

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    “Portrait of Fräulein Lieser” by Gustav Klimt.
    Creditim Kinsky
  3. 8 Hits of the Venice Biennale

    These highlights drew the big crowds in the early days, from a sonorous symphony made by fruit, to an underwater spectacle to a modern-day Tintoretto.

     By Jason FaragoAlex MarshallJulia HalperinJillian SteinhauerZachary SmallCasey Kelbaugh and

    CreditCasey Kelbaugh for The New York Times
  4. Roni Horn: a Restless Artist With 4 Shows and More Identities

    The spring exhibitions display Horn’s work across many mediums — a reflection of how the artist, known for her serene glass sculptures, sees herself.

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    The Conceptual artist Roni Horn. Her great subject turns out to be the malleability of identity, including her own.
    CreditJeanette Spicer for The New York Times
  5. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in April

    Will Heinrich covers Beau Dick’s alluring masks, Al Freeman’s jokey book and album covers and Meghan Brady’s radiant new paintings from Maine.

     By Will HeinrichBlake Gopnik and

    Beau Dick’s “Wind,” circa 2005. His inspired carving makes his masks “as supple, as particular and as expressive as living actors,” our critic says.
    Creditvia the Estate of Beau Dick and Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York

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