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The Year in, and Beyond, New York’s Galleries—Plus a Top 10 from All Over
A look at the highlights of 2019, from the reopening of MoMA to the most memorable exhibitions.
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Monet Spent a Lifetime Immersed in Nature. With Masterpieces and Little-Known Works, Superb Denver Show Charts His Journeys
"Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature" reveals how the Impressionist's work quickly overtook his mentor's.
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Hans Haacke’s Art Has Long Targeted Museums. A Career Retrospective Tests Its Potency Today.
The New Museum is staging the first U.S. survey of the artist's work in 30 years.
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Edgar Degas Called the Opera His ‘Laboratory.’ An Exhilarating Paris Show Reveals How It Became His Greatest Muse.
At the Musée d'Orsay, more than 200 works explore the world in front of, and behind, the curtain.
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Your Move: Artist Mariah Dekkenga Uses a Board Game to Rethink Abstract Painting
At a show at Situations in New York, two dice are central to a perspective-altering exhibition.
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New Ai Weiwei Documentary Champions the Artist as a Global Activist
The film grew out of his 2014 project on the onetime prison island in San Francisco Bay.
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New MoMA Offers ‘Pleasures and Possibilities for Learning More’: Latin American Scholar Edward J. Sullivan on the Museum’s Global Vision
Commitment on the part of institution to the arts of Latin America and the Caribbean has waxed and waned in the decades since its founding.
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Looking for Thrilling Public Art in New York City? Head to Your Local Bus Stop—ASAP
Plus, Hadi Fallahpisheh delivers one of the best shows of the year, at Tramps, and the beloved 1970s art zine Art-Rite returns in reproduction.
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MoMA’s Revisionism Is Piecemeal and Problem-Filled: Feminist Art Historian Maura Reilly on the Museum’s Rehang
"The problem is that with a revisionist strategy there is still a binary opposition in place."
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MoMA Undertakes an ‘Authentic and Potentially Lasting Structural Shift’
The institution has made strides in choreographing artists across media, generations, and borders, but some glaring omissions remain.
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‘The Irishman’ is on its way to becoming the 19th film with multiple supporting actor Oscar nominations
Watchmen Finale Recap: One Doomsday at a Time — Plus, Who Dies?
This might be the biggest leak so far from Marvel’s next epic Avengers movie
Damon Lindelof Unpacks Mysteries of the ‘Watchmen’ Finale
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