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.”
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Museums are reassessing the legacy of an artist who had sex with teenage girls and called the Polynesian people he painted “savages.”
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Today’s “age of the fan” is not so new: Audiences have always held more sway over performers than we admit.
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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.
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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.
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A difficult week for the art market ended on an upbeat note at contemporary sales, with collectors willing to pay for the best work.
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Like Geppetto in his workshop, the Italian design iconoclast “performs” a chair in New York, complemented by a show of rarely seen works in Chelsea.
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A roving exhibition, now on view in Manhattan, looks back on capitalism and its “artifacts” from an imaginary future after the system has disappeared.
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Mercedes Vilardell fell in love with the art when she visited Malick Sidibé’s studio. Now she travels to Africa several times a year.
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A survey of Hannah Wilke’s career; Tyree Guyton’s “Faces of God” series; and Tiona Nekkia McClodden’s tough and tender sculptural objects.
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