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    Richard Avedon, “Dovima with elephants, evening dress by Dior, Cirque d’Hiver, Paris, August 1955.”
    CreditThe Richard Avedon Foundation
    Art Review

    Avedon at 100: Photos of Seduction

    At Gagosian, Marian Anderson, Marilyn Monroe, Dovima and a cast of showstoppers.

     By Arthur Lubow

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    An installation view of the exhibition “The Sweet and Sour Journey of Langston Hughes and Elmer W. Brown” at ARTneo in Cleveland. The 21 poems, letters from Hughes and over 30 illustrations and watercolors on view revive a largely forgotten artistic partnership.
    Creditvia Cleveland Museum of Art; Photo by Grace McConnell

    Langston Hughes and Elmer W. Brown: A Children’s Book Deferred

    The famous poet and his artist friend wanted to publish “The Sweet and Sour Animal Book” in 1936. But there were no takers. A Cleveland exhibition makes up for the lost time.

     By Erik Piepenburg

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    The artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby in her East Los Angeles studio, where she prepared to open a major show at Zwirner gallery.
    CreditErik Carter for The New York Times

    Njideka Akunyili Crosby Wants to Take it Slow, Despite Her Rapid Rise

    The Nigerian artist inaugurates Zwirner’s new Los Angeles gallery with paintings that showcase her artistic vernacular.

     By Robin Pogrebin

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    Cecily Brown’s “Untitled (The Beautiful and Damned),” from 2013, sold for $6.7 million, just shy of her auction high price. With Vija Celmins and Cady Noland, Brown is still among the most valuable living female artists at auction.
    Creditvia Christie's

    5 Takeaways From Auction Week

    Amid high inflation and low inventory, the art market correction appears to have landed. If it wasn’t a trophy, it probably struggled to command a high price.

     By Robin Pogrebin and Zachary Small

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    Allyson and Alex Grey at the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, their interfaith church and arts organization.
    CreditLauren Lancaster for The New York Times

    A Sanctuary for Psychedelic Art Opens in the Hudson Valley

    The couple behind Entheon, an exhibition space on the grounds of a nonprofit organization, hopes to attract lovers of art and consciousness-altering experiences.

     By Noah Eckstein

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    Aliza Nisenbaum’s “El Taller” at Queens Museum.
    Creditvia Aliza Nisenbaum and Anton Kern Gallery, New York; Photo by Thomas Barratt

    What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in May

    Want to see new art in the city? Check out Natia Lemay’s sculptures at Yossi Milo, and Aria Dean’s work at Greene Naftali. And don’t miss Aliza Nisenbaum’s paintings at the Queens Museum.

     By Martha Schwendener, Travis Diehl, Will Heinrich, Max Lakin and Blake Gopnik

  1. Get Lost in Clay, Even if It’s Just for the Weekend

    Pottery workshops like those at the Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts in Maine are filling up with people who want to connect with others instead of screens.

    By Ainara Tiefenthäler

     
  2. Critic’s Pick

    Iiu Susiraja: She Has Issues? No, You Have Issues

    In her first museum show in the United States, this Finnish artist uses her own XL body to bring a new emotional depth to the genre of setup photography.

    By Roberta Smith

     
  3. Art of Craft

    Guitar Making as a Life’s Work

    “To somebody else, it’s just some wood glued together,” Freeman Vines, 80, said. “To me, it’s something else.”

    By Joshua Needelman and Sasha Arutyunova

     

  4. Paris Exhibition to Focus on Art Nouveau and Beyond

    Creations by pre-eminent craftsmen — Lalique, Fouquet, Vever — will be part of a show at L’École, School of Jewelry Arts.

    By Rachel Felder

     

  5. ‘White Balls on Walls’ Review: Time With the Gatekeepers

    The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam becomes a somewhat flimsy case study for fine-art diversity and inclusion conversations in this documentary.

    By Lisa Kennedy

     
  6. Critic’s Notebook

    At 99, the Painter Richard Mayhew Is Still Upending Expectations

    With a show in Manhattan, he says he inherited from his Indigenous forebears “inventive consciousness.”

    By Jonathan Griffin

     

  7. Seeing Beyond the Beauty of a Vermeer

    The violence of his era can be found in his serene masterpieces — if you know where to look.

    By Teju Cole

     
  8. Trilobites

    A Hospital Visit Reveals Medieval Secrets Hidden in Books

    Using CT scanning on 16th-century books, researchers uncovered bits of parchment salvaged from handwritten manuscripts.

    By Katherine Kornei

     

  9. At Antwerp Art Weekend, Collectors Buy With Their Gut

    The Belgian city doesn’t have a huge dealer base, nor is it home to as many artists as other major centers. But it has a tradition of art buying that goes back to Rubens and Breughel.

    By Scott Reyburn

     

  10. In Venice, Americans Explore Peace With Plastic

    At the Architecture Biennale, the United States Pavilion’s artists and designers are considering how to live with an “everlasting” material.

    By Ted Loos