Review: At Salon Art + Design, What to Check Out
By MARTHA SCHWENDENER
This fair at the Park Avenue Armory mixes artworks and furniture, showing how architects and interior designers are thinking today.
Amedeo Modigliani’s “Nu Couché” (1917-18).
The price tag for the single work was a far cry from the roughly $4,700 in today’s dollars that Modigliani sought for the entire contents of his Paris studio in 1918-19.
This fair at the Park Avenue Armory mixes artworks and furniture, showing how architects and interior designers are thinking today.
How conservators pieced together a once-in-a-lifetime show.
The artists Dan Colen, Hanna Liden and Nate Lowman, and Blair Hansen, director of the Dash Snow Archive, discuss the subject of “Dash Snow: Freeze Means Run.”
Eggs by the hundreds, gargantuan stoves and the ephemera of Frank Stella.
The exhibit “Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008” presents works from artists like Diane Arbus and Joseph Stella.
After being shuttered for two years of renovations, the Renwick, part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, has an updated mission.
The New York Times coverage of the artist, who had a work sell this week for $170.4 million, as his stock had begun its climb.
Impressionist and Modern works have dimmed in the eyes of many major collectors, but despite a lack of fireworks, bidding was solid at the middle range of $3 million to $5 million.
This lavish show includes 160 objects from one of the most comprehensive collections of Japanese art in the West.
The artist Brian Fuata will interact with items from the archive of Ray Johnson, a mail-art pioneer, and Rainer Ganahl will sell off books to explore Walter Benjamin’s thoughts on owning a library.
The show, “The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World,” includes work by Cajsa von Zeipel and Anna Uddenberg, among others.
This exhibition of works by 55 artists from around the world is engaging and often entertaining but does it live up to its bigger ambitions?
An Internet “content moderator” might sound like an innocent job, but an exhibition by Eva and Franco Mattes explains how these anonymous workers change the content of the Internet.
Unclebrother, created by the art dealer Gavin Brown and the artist Rirkrit Tiravanija, is an outgrowth of Tiravanija’s 1992 performance piece “Untitled (Free).”
“Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture,” which runs through April 3, aims to show how the master of the mobile is ever more relevant.
If art buyers were feeling a bit of auction fatigue going into Sotheby’s contemporary art evening sale — the sixth auction in seven days — they did not show it in their bidding for several major works.
The new sculpture by the artist Deborah Kass yells “YO” if you are looking at it from Manhattan or “OY” if you are gazing out from Brooklyn.
The artist discusses his new line, out this week, which is based on his work with rebars gathered after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.
In picture-perfect South Tyrol on the Austrian border of Italy, the legendary mountaineer Reinhold Messner has created six eccentric museums devoted to his lifelong passion. Naturally, to get to each one is a hike.
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Eggs by the hundreds, gargantuan stoves and the ephemera of Frank Stella.
The drawings, representing designs by Frederick Law Olmsted, Calvert Vaux and others, were retrieved after being put up for sale through Christie’s.
The museum, once the home of an oil and rail magnate and his much younger wife, is relining its music room with these luxurious pieces.
Art auctions can be unpredictable. See how you match up in this interactive quiz.
For his newest photo series, the artist spent time in upstate New York. He shares four photos from the series, as well as the haunts he discovered in the area.
Today’s programs are focused less on specific outcomes and more on creative exploration and nurturing visitors.
Mr. Johnson’s new Manhattan show explores African-American identity while engaging in rich dialogue with other artists. Here is a visual tour of “Anxious Men” and its influences.
Several art spaces have opened recently or are planned, enlivening an already rich cultural ecosystem.
