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The Best and Worst of the Art World This Week
Machu Picchu’s Real Age Uncovered – Thanks to new radiocarbon dating, the cultural heritage site is revealed to be even older than scientists previously thought. Phillips Fills Its Coffers – The auction house reported earning more than half a billion dollars in the first half of 2021, a 25 percent increase from 2019. To Infinity and Beyond – […]
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9 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From a Show of Cringeworthy Art to a Christie’s Conference on NFTs
Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events. In light of the global health crisis, we are currently highlighting events in person and digitally, as well as in-person exhibitions open in the New York area. See our picks from around the world below. (Times are all EST unless otherwise […]
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How a Devious Handshake Deal Let Arthur Sackler Store His Art in a Secret Gallery at the Metropolitan Museum for Years
When Arthur Sackler died in 1987, his obituary in the New York Times noted that he owned one of the largest collections of Asian art in the world. Patrick Radden Keefe’s new book Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty is an exposé of the family whose name has become synonymous with the opioid epidemic […]
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Sculptor Alex Da Corte Brought a Bright Blue Big Bird to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Rooftop—See Images Here
In the 1985 film Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird, Big Bird gets kidnapped by a traveling circus. Its owners paint him blue, cage him, and force him to sing the song “I’m So Blue” for their audience. Thankfully, Big Bird seems to have made his escape in Alex Da Corte‘s new roof garden commission for […]
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Step Right Up and Meet the Man Who Tweaked the Met Museum’s Logo to Celebrate Everyone’s Favorite Underachieving Baseball Team
If you love baseball, museums, graphic design, and supporting charity, Gabi Manga has the fashion accessory for you. It’s called the Mets Hat, and it’s a blue and orange baseball cap—the colors of Major League Baseball’s New York Mets—featuring a version of the Metropolitan Museum of Art logo tweaked to read “The Mets” rather than […]