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  1. 5 Takeaways From the Spring Art Auctions

    Results from a week of sales tell a story of a masterpiece market come down to earth, the cooling of young art stars — and a hack that seemed to end on Sunday.

     By Julia Halperin and Zachary Small

    On Tuesday, despite a hacked website, Georgina Hilton of Christie’s sold the top lot of the evening, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s “The Italian Version of Popeye Has no Pork in his Diet,” for more than $32 million at the 21st Century Evening Sale.
    On Tuesday, despite a hacked website, Georgina Hilton of Christie’s sold the top lot of the evening, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s “The Italian Version of Popeye Has no Pork in his Diet,” for more than $32 million at the 21st Century Evening Sale.
    Creditvia Christie's

  2. Kehinde Wiley Denies Accusation of Sexual Assault by Artist

    After Joseph Awuah-Darko accused Mr. Wiley of sexually assaulting him in Ghana, Mr. Wiley denied the claims, calling them “not true and an affront to all victims of sexual abuse.”

     By Alex Marshall

    Kehinde Wiley is one of the best known American portrait painters.
    Kehinde Wiley is one of the best known American portrait painters.
    CreditJulien Mignot for The New York Times
    1. Critic’s Pick

      Jenny Holzer Shines New Light in Dark Places

      Her signboards predated by a decade the news “crawl.” At the Guggenheim she is still bending the curve: Just read the art, is the message.

       By Nancy Princenthal

      Jenny Holzer’s “For The Guggenheim,” 2008/2024, a nighttime light projection on the facade of the Guggenheim Museum, features spare, heartbreaking poetry by Wislawa Szymborska and other poets Holzer admires.
      Jenny Holzer’s “For The Guggenheim,” 2008/2024, a nighttime light projection on the facade of the Guggenheim Museum, features spare, heartbreaking poetry by Wislawa Szymborska and other poets Holzer admires.
      CreditJenny Holzer/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York; Photo by Erik Sumption/ Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

    2. Mary Cassatt’s Women Didn’t Sit Pretty

      The American painter depicted women caring for children, not posing for the male gaze. New exhibitions and books reappraise her legacy 100 years later.

       By Deborah Solomon

      Mary Cassatt’s “Maternal Caress” (1896) is a small but potent oil painting. Is motherhood as an emotional bond or unwaged labor or both?
      Mary Cassatt’s “Maternal Caress” (1896) is a small but potent oil painting. Is motherhood as an emotional bond or unwaged labor or both?
      Creditvia Philadelphia Museum of Art

  1. Cartoon of Palestinian Boy Inspires, Years After Creator’s Murder

    The character known as Handala, created by Naji Al-Ali in 1969, is making an imprint on art and as a protest symbol.

     By Aruna D’Souza

    The banner that Columbia student protesters unfurled in April contained images of a cartoon character created over 50 years ago that has become a potent symbol of the Palestinian struggle.
    CreditCaitlin Ochs/Reuters
    Critic’s Notebook

  2. Yves Klein’s Leap Into the Blue (With Living Paintbrushes)

    A gallery shows works with roots in performance art, and a film that documents their creation.

     By Deborah Solomon

    For Yves Klein’s “Anthropometries,” nude women covered their bodies in his signature blue paint and lay down on paper, or were dragged across it. This one was created circa 1960.
    CreditThe Estate of Yves Klein/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris; via Lévy Gorvy Dayan, New York
    Critic’s Pick

  3. After Making Altars to Her Icons, an Artist Builds Her Own Legacy

    A powerful and overdue exhibition at El Museo del Barrio links Amalia Mesa-Bains’s genre-defying installations for the first time.

     By Karen Rosenberg

    Amalia Mesa-Bains’s “Cihuateotl With Mirror From Private Landscapes and Public Territories,” 2018, at El Museo del Barrio. It was originally presented in 1997 as part of “Venus Envy Chapter III: Cihuatlampa, the Place of the Giant Women.”
    Creditvia Amalia Mesa-Bains and Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco; Photo by Matthew Sherman/El Museo del Barrio
    Critic’s Pick

  4. LaToya Ruby Frazier Is Paying It Forward

    She may be America’s foremost social documentary photographer, now with a survey at the Museum of Modern Art. “All I’m doing is showing up as a vessel.”

     By Siddhartha Mitter

    CreditGioncarlo Valentine 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 Yinka Elujoba, John Vincler and Martha Schwendener

    Richard Ayodeji Ikhide’s “First Born,” 2024, watercolor and gouache on paper.
    Creditvia Richard Ayodeji Ikhide and Candice Madey, New York; Photo by Kunning Huang

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  10. Steve McQueen, on a Different Wavelength

    The artist-turned-film director finds new depths in “Bass,” an immersive environment of light and sound in Dia Beacon keyed to Black history and “where we can go from here.”

    By Siddhartha Mitter

     
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