Pablo Picasso was among the few who stood beside Chaim Soutine’s grave as his corpse was lowered into it. It was Aug. 11, 1943, and Paris was under Nazi occupation. Mr. Soutine — the artist, the genius, the Jew — had died in his hospital bed with hi
The Greek Revival townhouse at 125 West 11th Street has long been a haven for artists. Daniel Chester French, a sculptor best known for designing the statue of Lincoln in the memorial in Washington, moved there in the late 1880s, and it was also hom
Twenty-one years after it brashly burst onto the London cultural scenesga gaming, the Frieze Art Fair is back with its annual jamboree — and ready to welcome tens of thousands to its mega-tents in Regent’s Park at Frieze London and Frieze Masters, r
As a child in Nantes, France, the 26-year-old artist Victor Siret would often lose himself in the gothic foliage of a six-foot-long needlepoint canvas made by his grandmother, who started teaching him needlework when he was 10. When Siret went to ar
A DECADE AGO, the artist Thomas Houseago never would have imagined himself painting flowers. The sculptor, 52, who grew up in Leeds, England, and has been based in Malibu, Calif., since 2003, became known for making hulking monsters and masks — thei
T’s Art issue looks at the iconoclastic artists who have found power in saying no.bet168 RYAN TRECARTIN WAS, for a time, one of the most ubiquitous and influential artists of his generation. He seemed to arrive fully formed at age 23 with the 2004 s
The New York art world is full of origin stories, and some of them are true. One begins on a winter night on the Lower East Side, with a bolt cutter in a guitar case, a snipped lock and a guerrilla art show in an abandoned building. ABC No Rio, the
Artwork by Anupriya Artwork by Anupriya “The night of the sword and the bullet was followed by the morning of the chalk and the blackboard.” Few sentences capture the ironic but inevitable sequence of the different stages of colonialism—the military
Two decades agolegendplay, I was a public-affairs officer in the Marine Corps, a public-relations guy for the military, tasked with “telling the Marine Corps story” and providing accurate information about military operations to maintain the trust o
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2024-09-25You’re reading the New York Today newsletter.Metropolitan Diary and local reporting, plus our weekly series, Street Wars. Get it sent to your inbox. Good morning. It’s Friday. We’ll look at an unusual art show in Brooklyn. We’ll also look at how shor