Hits: 7 The oligarch’s ex-wife had carefully built a place for herself in the art world. And then, Putin’s war started. “If there’s one place in the world that’s fighting today for freedom and democracy, where people — men, women …
Yoko Ono Fans Ring In Her 90th Birthday With a ’60s-Style Happening
Hits: 8 There was singing, dancing and bell ringing in Central Park for an artist who has lived long past the days when she was often vilified. At 90, Yoko Ono has outlasted her detractors, just as she more or …
How Is Everyone Making Those A.I. Selfies?
Hits: 4 Images generated with Lensa AI are all over social media, but at what cost? Have you noticed that many of your friends are suddenly fairy princesses or space travelers? Is your Instagram feed overrun with Renaissance-style paintings of …
Pottery That Gets Its Colors by Chance
Hits: 2 The Irish artisan Sinéad Fagan uses combustible materials in her firing process. The results, she said, are always a surprise. BAURAVILLA, Ireland — Sinéad Fagan credits the beginning of her award-winning career in ceramics to a book. In …
Will the Era of Butts Ever End?
Hits: 2 A new book takes a look back at the posterior’s cultural role throughout history. From the title of Heather Radke’s new book “Butts: A Backstory,” and its cover image of a ripe, callipygian peach, one might expect a …
9 Months. 100 People. Inside the Making of a Holiday Window
Hits: 7 Only a handful of department stores in New York City still create them — but the ones that do go all out. It was go time. Just after 7 p.m. on Tuesday night, security teams raced across Fifth …
How Online Ceramics Keeps Its Cool
Hits: 6 Shortly after John Mayer started performing with Dead & Company, the current iteration of the rock band the Grateful Dead that features some of its surviving members, fans began sending him T-shirts. “These really thoughtful packages,” he recalled …
A Vanishing Craft Reappears
Hits: 11 The practice of making pajaki, the Polish folk art created to honor the earth, finds an unexpected revival. “They were almost completely forgotten about in Poland,” Karolina Merska said. An artist based in London, Ms. Merska refers to …
Six-Figure Artworks, by a Fifth Grader
Hits: 18 The contemporary art world has had more than its share of young talent, but it’s tough to recall an artist who has generated as much early-career recognition as Andres Valencia. In the last year, he has gone from …
The Mother of Strange Fashion
Hits: 21 PARIS — A woman wears a long thermometer on a hook hanging from her ear, her chin upturned and eyes gently closed, in a photograph taken by the artist Man Ray around 1920, not long after the influenza …