Late last month, the TikTok influencer Addison Rae went on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” and casually performed a suite of recent viral dance routines in a comedic skit. Critics reacted with cries of appropriation — the dances’ creators, many of the... More »
In March, the Comité Professionnel des Galeries d’Art, a trade association that comprises 310 French art dealers, sued the French government for permission to reopen during the third lockdown, which began on April 4. In a statement following the filing, the co... More »
Phillips’s live-streamed evening sale of 20th century and contemporary art in London tonight brought in a hammer total of £20.1 million, or £24.8 million with premium ($34.2 million), exceeding the auction’s £16.7 million–£23.5 million. Of the 33 lots on offer... More »
The permanent collection of Madrid’s Prado Museum now boasts the earliest documented work of Francisco Goya. The work, Aníbal vencedor que por primera vez mira a Italia desde los Alpes (Victorious Hannibal Who for the First Time Looks at Italy from the Alps), ... More »
He and J. Max Bond Jr. partnered in a firm whose designed included public works commemorating the civil rights movement and the Schomburg Center in Harlem.Donald P. Ryder, whose firm designed important repositories of Black culture and social history in becomi... More »
Casting Black actors and filming in a claustrophobic New York apartment revitalizes Jason Robert Brown’s popular two-character musical.Breakups, hookups, divorces, engagements: Even if you haven’t been afflicted yourself, you’ve surely heard stories of the dra... More »
Netflix’s gender-flipped update of Jens Lapidus’s Stockholm Noir Trilogy probes the hustle for riches among drug dealers and tech billionaires alike.Not wanting to talk oneself up is a traditionally Swedish trait. There is even a Nordic term for it: jantelagen... More »
Finding a projector for displaying art is a different experience from choosing one for personal entertainment. You’ll need a machine that reproduces images and video with sharpness and color accuracy, and one that can match the environment of your installation... More »
Joanie Lemercier, a French artist whose work is deeply tied to climate activism, has been working on steadily decreasing his carbon footprint by 10 percent each year. In an effort to lessen his reliance on international festivals and the planes that inevitably... More »
Arthur Jafa remixes Robert Mapplethorpe; Sanou Oumar leaps forward; Ray Johnson makes connections; TR Ericsson processes grief.‘Robert Mapplethorpe Curated by Arthur Jafa’Through April 24. Gladstone Gallery, 515 West 24th Street, Manhattan; 212-206-9300, glads... More »
The fantastical animated series is part surreal adventure and part spiritual parable. Its fourth and final season arrives Thursday on HBO Max.Whatever the state of public transportation in the real world, pop culture does not lack for metaphorical trains that ... More »
In a coup for South Korean art institutions, museums across the country are set to receive works from the collection of the late Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Kun-hee, which is worth billions of dollars and includes more than 13,000 works. Various South Kor... More »
