Art
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U.S.
George Tscherny, Whose Graphic Designs Defined an Era, Is Dead at 99
With a bevy of corporate and institutional clients, he helped shape the visual language of the postwar American economy.
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World
Kerry James Marshall’s Prints Throw Blackness Into Relief
“I am not one who goes in much for magical thinking,” the painter Kerry James Marshall wrote in 2018. “Material…
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Health
Grace Wales Bonner Has Set Her Sights Beyond Fashion
Grace Wales Bonner’s approach to fashion can sometimes feel more like that of an academic rather than a designer. Her…
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World
For Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Hair Is Rooted in Pride
The Philadelphia artist’s show at Artists Space considers how hair cutting, grooming and caregiving help create a Black queer community.
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World
Robert Irwin Helped Us See the Light
Being with Irwin as he watched and questioned everything around him, I learned that a work of art succeeds when…
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U.S.
Robert Brustein, Passionate Force in Nonprofit Theater, Dies at 96
A critic and dramatist himself, he started repertory companies at Yale and Harvard and fiercely defended the art form, even…
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U.S.
Ida Applebroog, Whose Art Confronted Relationships, Dies at 93
She developed a varied but recognizable style in multiple mediums, characterized by the raw, mordant humor of a woman under…
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World
The Good. The Bad. The Ugly. Inside Berlusconi’s Art Collection.
The Italian media mogul bought up some 25,000 paintings, many on TV shopping binges, before he died this year. Now…
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World
Artforum Fires Top Editor After Its Open Letter on Israel-Hamas War
David Velasco was removed after the magazine’s publishers said there was a flawed editorial process behind the publication of a…
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U.S.
Michael Tracy, Who Made Subway Trains His Canvas, Dies at 65
Using the name Tracy 168, he was a pioneering graffiti artist during the tumultuous 1970s and ’80s in New York.