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FILM
London’s Grenfell Tragedy Gets the Steve McQueen Treatment

Captured in a helicopter six months after the deadly fire, the director’s eerily silent footage...

Museums
What’s Going on With the Met’s “Blood Antiquities?”

A damning investigative report laid bare the dodgy details about the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s

ARTIST STATEMENT
Adjei Tawiah’s Exquisite Ode to a Close Mentor’s Legacy

A standout among the lucid, melancholic canvases featured in the emerging Ghanaian painter’s...

EXHIBITION
This Clever New Gallery Collapses Creative Boundaries

Setting out to break whatever barriers remain between art and design, International Objects debuts...

ART
Roger Ballen’s New Art Center Probes the Psyche

The environmental photographer pulls back the curtain on Johannesburg’s Inside Out Centre for...

EXHIBITION
What to Expect When the Photography Show Returns to New York

The flagship fair of AIPAD—Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD)—offers...

ART
A New Day for the Erstwhile “Newspaper”

A new volume from Primary Information collects, for the first time, the entire print run of the...

CULTURE CLUB
An Intimate Dinner to Toast Art Basel Hong Kong

On March 22, luminaries from the art and luxury spheres gathered at Carlyle & Co for an intimate...

ART
Anthony Olubunmi Akinbola Wields Simple Yet Loaded Materials

By extracting meaning from flags, palm oil, bullet shell casings, and now durags, the Nigerian-born

ART
Jace Clayton Interweaves Sound, Memory, and Space

At Boston’s MassArt Art Museum, the writer and DJ explores how sound creates and complicates...

ART
Kehinde Wiley’s Gripping New Show Has a Respite Room

If visitors to the American portraitist’s recently opened show at San Francisco’s de Young...

CULTURE
The Radical Rage of the Blacklips Performance Cult

A new book and compilation album chronicle the abject glamour and visionary legacy of New York...

ART
NFTs Are Having a “Four Seasons Total Landscaping” Moment

A miscommunication resulted in digital artist Claire Silver being dragged online for believing her...

ART
A Pared-Down Desert X Opens in Palm Springs

The closely watched sculpture biennial returns to the Coachella Valley with a modest but more...

Museums
In London and the Bronx, the Next Generation of Children’s Museums

Last week, the Victoria & Albert Museum announced the July opening of its long-awaited children’s