Art Review
From China’s Artist-Activist, a Citywide Great Wall
Ai Weiwei has endured frequent gripes that his activism has got the better of his art. That gripe is unfounded.
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CreditPasadena Playhouse Behind the Poster
An ‘Our Town’ Image as Sturdy as a Chair
The designer Paula Scher talks about her artwork for a revival of the Thornton Wilder play at the Pasadena Playhouse.
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CreditEstate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Thaw Collection, via The Morgan Library & Museum Art Review
Collecting Strokes of Genius
Goya, Rembrandt and van Gogh (for starters) lead the Thaw collection at the Morgan, one of the great troves of treasured drawings.
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CreditKendrick Brinson for The New York Times Eli Broad, Patron of Los Angeles, to Step Down From His Philanthropy
His vast fortune shaped Los Angeles, from its arts and medical worlds to its reinvigorated downtown.
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CreditAmazon Studios Review: Ai Weiwei’s ‘Human Flow’ Tracks the Global Migrant Crisis
A documentary from an artist who wants to take viewers beyond the headlines and the images on the nightly news.
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CreditRaghubir Singh Seeing India Through a Contemporary Lens
Raghubir Singh captured the jumbled sensations of modern Indian life in his lyrical color photos. His first New York museum show is at the Met Breuer.
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CreditAdrienne Grunwald for The New York Times A Style-Minded Filmmaker at Home With Family Treasures
Lisa Immordino Vreeland, who has a new book and documentary about Cecil Beaton, lives with art, sparely.
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CreditCole Wilson for The New York Times A Little Piece of Downtown Damascus in New Haven
A meticulously detailed model brings a glimpse of the Syrian civil war to the Yale University Art Gallery.
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CreditNicholas Knight A Wingless Angel Comes to Light
A plaster version of a Canova is coming to New York. The original marble work, with wings, was carved as part of a monument to Pope Clement XIII in Rome.
