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As celebrities posed for the cameras on the Met Gala red carpet, hundreds of pro-Palestine protesters marched across Manhattan’s Upper East Side tonight, May 6, during the annual fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. A heavy police presence surrounded the museum with steel barricades, street closures, and dozens of armed officers blocking demonstrators.

Political cartoons abound, long-lost sculptures resurface, and strange monarchical monuments crop up in this month’s puzzle. Related Natan Last’s essays, poetry, and crossword puzzles appear in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Narrative, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. He is currently writing a nonfiction book about crosswords. More by Natan Last Source link

“What drew you to Ridgewood?” I asked 42-year-old painter Zach Ziemann.  “Rents,” he said, flatly.  Ridgewood Open Studios (ROS), back for its second edition this weekend, sent me to corners of the neighborhood I hadn’t seen since I was a census worker in 2020, with a step count to match — and about as much

HOUSTON — In the fall of 1944, the gallerist and collector Peggy Guggenheim was confident that she’d found the next big thing. “Put Janet Sobel on your list,” she once wrote to a fellow gallerist. “She is the best woman painter by far (in America).” A year later, Guggenheim included Sobel’s work in a group

ISTANBUL — Stepping into Larissa Araz’s recent exhibition at Versus Art Project you might think you had stumbled into a small museum of natural history. The imposing figure of a ram etched onto a zinc plate hung next to wild landscapes sketched in charcoal directly on the wall, while a video of a flickering flame

VENICE — A broken canoe is among the first works visitors see in the pavilions of the Arsenale, the naval complex turned exhibition space that houses multiple pavilions alongside portions of the international exhibition at the Venice Biennale. During the press preview, I stumbled across “Bokk – Bounds,” an installation by artist Alioune Diagne, curated

American painter and sculptor Frank Stella died in his Manhattan home on Saturday, May 4 at the age of 87 after a battle with lymphoma. With a career spanning over 60 years, Stella leaves behind a trailblazing legacy that reoriented the North American arts landscape and defied any strict characterizations of his work as it