Art

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In New York’s art show of the summer, paint and prose meet in “The Swimmer,” a psychoanalysis of John Cheever’s suburban nightmare of 1964.

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For Pride Month, we asked people ranging in age from 34 to 93 to share an indelible memory. Together, they offer a personal history of queer life as we know it today.

At SFMOMA, the artist enacts a parable about trauma and healing in Black life — and makes her first foray into robotics. “I went down a little sci-fi rabbit hole the last couple years working on this piece.”

Plus: art about office life, colorful rope rugs — and more.

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The documentary photographer honors those who turn their energies to a social good. And our critic says this artist does the same.

Declining sales and a cyberattack ignite new worries at spring art auctions.

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A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction protecting a work by Mary Miss. A Des Moines museum wanted to destroy it, citing safety concerns.

She devoted her life to showing us how and why.

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A steamer trunk worth of clothing and textiles by the French-Ukrainian artist reveals the sartorial origins of abstraction.

A tour of the international exhibition, which opened last week and runs through November.

A new photo book reorients dusty notions of a classic American pastime.

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Boots Riley, Earl Sweatshirt, Jennifer Egan, Amaarae and more tell us about their new projects.

Advice on quashing doubt and maximizing procrastination, according to Joan Baez, Kim Gordon, Bill T. Jones and Myha’la.

Six people, from Lorraine O’Grady to Wallace Stevens, who found a new creative calling – or received long-overdue recognition — later in life.

Six artists on the first steps of getting into character, or making a painting.

Marina Abramović, David Henry Hwang and others reveal their juvenalia.

From Ralph Ellison to Harper Lee, those who made great work in one field — before their creative lives went in a different direction.

Seven artists on the challenges and joys of starting over, sometimes in a totally new field.

Longtime collaborators on how their partnerships formed and why they’ve endured.

Musicians, writers and others revisit the work that started it all for them, and what (if anything) they might have done differently.

It takes courage to start. And far more to continue.

T’s Culture issue looks at the many ways to begin.

We spoke to 150 artists, some planning retrospectives and others making their debut, to ask about the process of starting something.

To toast the Salone del Mobile and the 20th anniversary of T Magazine, the designer Ramdane Touhami transformed the Villa Necchi Campiglio into an ode to the letter T.

From Japan, Ando designed an exhibition for Zeng, the Chinese painter, which generates a sense of surprise and discovery — what LACMA’s director calls “a strange, poetic thing.”

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The artist has gone back to his filmmaking roots, re-examining what he sees as racial undertones in Martin Scorsese’s classic 1976 movie.

The artists redefining portraits of the human body for a more inclusive age.

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From a Marcel Breuer chair to Metro shelving, all the nominated objects.

Three designers, a museum curator, an artist and a design-savvy actress convened at The New York Times to make a list of the most enduring and significant objects for living.

The visual artist Pipilotti Rist’s collection is what happens, she says, “when a 60-something-year-old Central European woman doesn’t throw anything away.”

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Exclusively for T, Marcus Jahmal envisions what happens on page 76 of novels by Neel Mukherjee, Valerie Martin and others.

Glenn Martens, the creative director of Y/Project and Diesel, shares his inspirations.

Albert Moya has optimized his apartment, part of a 14th-century estate in the hills of Florence, for work and lounging.

Plus: a collection of writings by a star of bohemian New York, a line of pajamas from a bed linen company — and more recommendations from T Magazine.

“Even Better Than the Real Thing” is as a well-intentioned edition of the perpetually debated show. Will it go down as a notable one?

Anthony Cudahy’s lush, figurative works are inspired, in equal parts, by news footage, family photographs and Renaissance paintings.

At the invitation-only art world games evenings, painters, gallerists, collectors and assistants mingle and compete on a level playing field.

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Joan Jonas’s maximalist, category-defying work combines video, performance, folklore, sculpture and ecology. At 87, she still has no intention of simplifying anything.

Thanks to a street artist named Frank “Frankey” de Ruwe, a wander through the Dutch capital may lead to a playful discovery or two.

A new wave of self-taught craftspeople are using the medium to make playful, thought-provoking works.

Julia Sinelnikova says the museum plastered an image of a kiss with a girlfriend all over New York, including on the subways, without seeking consent.

The Tokyo-based co-founder of Ambush on the artworks and ideas she'd like to be able to claim as her own.

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Many artists who made their names in figurative work are now creating a different sort of portrait.

Generations of creatives once flocked to the city seeking affordable rent. Now, despite skyrocketing real estate prices, some continue to carve out studio spaces of their own.

It’s home to all types, but one group has made the city what it is today.

In an era of continual burnout, artists and filmmakers are now imagining what it looks like when workers finally explode.

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Sabato De Sarno, who showed his first collection for the Italian fashion house last year, discusses his creative touchstones.

The artist, whose portraits explore leisure and repose, has suddenly found success in the notoriously fickle gallery world.

The Los Angeles-based artist and designer admires the Vespa and an early 20th-century typeface.

A look at a creative incubator where the singer Sampha rubs shoulders with the fashion designer Grace Wales Bonner.

The British painter Harold Cohen spent over four decades refining his collaborator: an image-generating robot.

Erdem Moralioglu discusses his collection of busts, which is slowly taking over his London home.

Mirroring, mimicking and doubling are everywhere these days. What does this say about our collective sense of identity?

Sixty years after the Beatles appeared live on “Ed Sullivan,” McCartney reflects on his photos capturing those halcyon days. The Brooklyn Museum will exhibit them, and some will be for sale later.

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The British artist lived long and worked in numerous mediums, but is barely known in the United States.

A globalized art market has brought attention to Ghanaian artists like Ibrahim Mahama. On an arts-focused trip to the West African country, a writer finds a thriving scene following its own agenda.

What T Magazine editors are coveting for ourselves and eyeing for our loved ones.

A major collection of early Greek figures and vessels takes up long-term residence in New York — a transformative event.

The Swiss artist turns cardboard and tape to the problems of social media, artificial intelligence and digital warfare.

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The 2024 survey focuses less on American art, more on America itself at a raw, vulnerable time.

The Des Moines Art Center says it will dismantle Mary Miss’s celebrated work because it does not have the money to repair it.

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The 900 items from his Atlanta home include blue-chip art by Julian Schnabel and Richard Avedon, Versace dinnerware and flamboyant costumes.

Why pop culture now flirts with extraterrestrials as much as it fears them.

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A blue-chip gallery asks, does the infamous Whitney Biennial or “The Theater of Refusal” measure up 30 years later, when artists of color have moved to the mainstream?

In 1980s Belgium, this Jewish artist dared to blur the lines between victims and villains. A bracing retrospective is now at the Drawing Center.

Dozens of makers gathered at the restaurant Stissing House, in New York’s Hudson Valley, for a celebration of craft and local creativity.

Plus: sophisticated eye shadows, sculptural candles and more recommendations from T Magazine.

In paintings and handcrafted books, the artist layers lush themes from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Vietnamese history, and explores our relationship to nature.

Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers built one of the art world’s most powerful businesses by not following conventional wisdom.

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For centuries, labor was deemed too messy a subject for gallery walls. A growing canon of feminist work is challenging that perception.

The artist discusses violence, AI, his latest work and how he comes up with his ideas.

After losing her sight in an accident, Emilie Gossiaux found meaning and art in a bond with her dog, London, celebrated at the Queens Museum.

Why does the act of stepping away from a creative vocation still have the power to shock?

Plus: animal-shaped vases, merman paintings and more recommendations from T Magazine.

The philanthropy will add to its ongoing initiative to tell diverse stories with new monuments in public spaces over the next five years.

We asked 46 artists, filmmakers, chefs and other creative people to forecast next year’s cultural trends. (Spoiler: We’re all going to be wearing a lot of brown.)

In reinvigorating the craft’s rich history, a group of female Korean and Korean American artists are creating a body of wholly distinct work.

After a five-year renovation, some of the museum’s grandest galleries have reopened. Our critic frames six artworks you cannot miss.

An 800-year-old ink painting, regarded as the “Zen Mona Lisa,” has made a once-in-a-lifetime trip to the United States.

What T Magazine editors are eyeing for our friends and family — and what we’re coveting for ourselves.

The 12th edition of the fair, dedicated to fine and decorative arts, offers a beguiling mix of paintings, jewelry and modern Brazilian design.

Plus: a taste for beeswax, rare soaps and more from T’s cultural compendium.