Art and Design

Highlights

  1. Art Fair Review

    Frieze New York Brings a Rich, Cross-Cultural Mix

    The Shed welcomes an international survey of painting, textiles and collage to its galleries. Our critic picks his 23 favorite booths.

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    Works by Laura Lima, center, and Ana Silva at A Gentil Carioca.
    Works by Laura Lima, center, and Ana Silva at A Gentil Carioca.
    CreditBen Sklar for The New York Times
  2. An Artist From Kosovo Takes Flight

    After a childhood marked by war and exile, Petrit Halilaj has become one of his generation’s great talents.

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    CreditVincent Tullo for The New York Times
  1. On the Met Roof, Skywriting His Way to Freedom

    Petrit Halilaj of Kosovo began drawing as a refugee child in the Balkans during a violent decade and invented a calligraphic world of memory.

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    “Abetare (Spider),” a stainless steel sculpture by Petrit Halilaj for his Met Roof Garden commission opening Tuesday. “Abetare” was the name of an illustrated alphabetic primer, written in the Albanian language, which the artist, now 38, had learned as a child.
    CreditHiroko Masuike/The New York Times
    Critic’s Pick
  2. Arlene Shechet’s ‘Girl Group’ Nudges Heavy Metal Men at Storm King

    Once known for ceramics, she now commands the rolling hills at the prestigious New York sculpture park with a chorus of six giant welded works.

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    Arlene Shechet with the 20-foot-tall “As April,” one of six massive welded sculptures from “Girl Group,” her exhibition being installed at Storm King Art Center. The 2024 work is in two vivid shades of yellow.
    CreditCole Wilson for The New York Times
  3. The Venice Biennale and the Art of Turning Backward

    Every art institution now speaks of progress, justice, transformation. What if all those words hide a more old-fashioned aim?

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    Paintings by 20th-century artists hang cheek by jowl in the Central Pavilion of the 2024 Venice Biennale. The nude at center left was painted by the pioneering Brazilian artist Tarsila do Amaral.
    CreditCasey Kelbaugh for The New York Times
    Critic’s Notebook
  4. Maurizio Cattelan Turned a Banana Into Art. Next Up: Guns

    As his bullet-riddled panels go up at Gagosian, the artist, in a rare in-person interview, tells why he turned his sardonic gaze on a violence-filled world.

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    The artist Maurizio Cattelan at Gagosian with a wall of his new work, “Sunday,” its gold-plated steel panels riddled with bullets from pistols, rifles and semiautomatic weapons at a New York firing range.
    CreditVincent Tullo for The New York Times
  5. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in May

    Martha Schwendener covers Tamiko Nishimura’s arresting black-and-white photographs, Tanya Merrill’s playful portraits and Enrique Martínez Celaya’s link to a Spanish master.

     By Martha SchwendenerWill Heinrich and

    Tanya Merrill’s “Our family portrait/Dancing over the town,” 2024.
    CreditTanya Merrill, via 303 Gallery, New York

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