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  1. Photo“Tehamana Has Many Parents” (1893) by Paul Gauguin, a standout work in the exhibition “Gauguin’s Portraits” at the National Gallery in London.
    CreditThe Art Institute of Chicago

    Is It Time Gauguin Got Canceled?

    Museums are reassessing the legacy of an artist who had sex with teenage girls and called the Polynesian people he painted “savages.”

    1. Photo“Brownie,” from 2005, is a Giacomettian column embedded with life-size skulls.
      CreditCharlie Rubin for The New York Times

      Critic’s Pick

      Peas, Socks and Sidewalk-Trash Sculptures: Just Keep Looking

      Rachel Harrison’s midcareer survey at the Whitney Museum includes pieces that defy description. You feel things will come clear if you just hang out longer. And people do.

    2. PhotoHanaa Malallah’s series of portraits, “She/He Has No Picture,” at MoMA PS1, are made from collaged pieces of burnt canvas. They commemorate the 400 civilian victims of the U.S. Air Force bombing of the al-Amiriyah shelter. “Iraqi artists confront Americans with Iraqi pain,” says Tim Arango.
      CreditWalter Wlodarczyk

      These Artists Refuse to Forget the Wars in Iraq

      A powerful new show at MoMA PS1, featuring artists from the U.S. and the Persian Gulf, revisits two conflicts most Americans have tuned out.

  4. Show Us Your Wall

    PhotoMercedes Vilardell, at her home in London, with her art. She specializes in African pieces and supports young African artists.
    CreditKader Attia/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Tom Jamieson for The New York Times

    Out of Africa, a Collection and a Dedication to Giving Back

    Mercedes Vilardell fell in love with the art when she visited Malick Sidibé’s studio. Now she travels to Africa several times a year.

  5. Art Reviews

    PhotoTyree Guyton’s “I’m not for sale” (2017), mixed media on wood panel.
    CreditTyree Guyton and Martos Gallery

    New York Galleries: What to See Right Now

    A survey of Hannah Wilke’s career; Tyree Guyton’s “Faces of God” series; and Tiona Nekkia McClodden’s tough and tender sculptural objects.

  1. A Tiny Brontë Book Comes Home

    A museum in Haworth, England, paid $777,000 for one of Charlotte Brontë’s matchbox-size books she wrote when she was a teenager.

    By Jennifer Schuessler

  2. Guggenheim Hires First Full-Time Black Curator

    Ashley James, most recently of the Brooklyn Museum, started there this week.

    By Robin Pogrebin

  3. Dia Art Foundation Welcomes Whitney Veteran Donna De Salvo

    Ms. De Salvo will advise on the collection, exhibitions and long-term installations while also developing Dia’s archive.

    By Robin Pogrebin

  4. 18 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend

    Our guide to new art shows and some that will be closing soon.

  5. Keith Haring’s Stairwell Mural Auctioned for $3.9 Million

    An anonymous buyer purchased the piece, painted on the walls of a Manhattan youth center. It is unclear where the work will end up.

    By Nancy Coleman

  6. Fall Art Auctions See Significant Declines

    In a “season with few trophies,” auctions see a falloff from spring’s bonanza.

    By Scott Reyburn

  7. Shoji Sadao, Quiet Hand Behind Two Visionaries, Dies at 92

    An architect, Mr. Sadao translated the ideas of Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi to the real world.

    By Neil Genzlinger

  8. A Trustee Leaves Trove of Old Masters Works to the Met

    In her bequest, the longtime donor Jayne Wrightsman left more than 375 works to the museum, along with $80 million for acquisitions.

    By Robin Pogrebin

  9. Penn Museum Redesign Aims Beyond Academics

    Hundreds of objects from a collection of almost one million artifacts will go on public display for the first time when new galleries open this week.

    By Jon Hurdle

  10. Mexico Dispatch

    This Mexican Village’s Embroidery Designs Are Admired (and Appropriated) Globally

    The distinctive iconography used by the Indigenous Otomí people has attracted unsolicited attention from fashion houses, which have incorporated similar images in their designs, often without credit.

    By Elisabeth Malkin

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