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Painter Victoria Gitman’s Meticulously Depicted Handbags Lure Viewers in With Seductive Surfaces, and Then Turn a Cold Shoulder

Leonardo da Vinci Invented the Parachute, the Helicopter, and, New Research Suggests, the Whoopee Cushion

Sculptor Rona Pondick Has Kept Journalists Away From Her Private Life for Decades. She’s Finally Ready to Talk About It

Artist Liz Larner Has Spent 30 Years Making Sly Sculptures We Still Don’t Have Words For. But After Speaking to Her, We Found a Few

Arne Glimcher, Artist? The Pace Patriarch Sold a Photograph He Took of His Dog, Max, at the Gallery’s Summer Staff Show

The New York Antiquarian Book Fair, Which Coincided With the Armory Show, Has Been Called Off Due to Delta Concerns

‘I Was Left With My Thoughts’: How Author Teju Cole Distilled the Tragedies of 2020 Into Quiet Photos of His Kitchen Counter

‘In the Studio, You Have Your Own Folklore’: Artist Edgar Sarin on the Stories Artists Tell Themselves

‘I Embrace Whatever Label Is Attached to Me’: Activist and Artist Gregg Bordowitz on Identity Politics and Why the AIDS Crisis Is Only Beginning

Author Geoff Dyer Has Lots of Marvelous Insights Into the History of Photography. Why Can’t Our Interviewer Remember Any of Them?

Art Basel Hong Kong’s 2021 Fair Will Be Less Than Half the Size of Its Previous In-Person Edition, and Filled With ‘Ghost Booths’

A Maverick Who Captivated the ’70s New York Scene, Alex Hay Seemed Bound to Become a Famous Artist. Then He Just Walked Away. Why?

Some People See the 1970s as a Golden Age of Contemporary Art. Charles Gaines Thinks Today’s Art Is Actually Much Better

Art Critic Robert Storr Has Never Been Afraid to Make Enemies. Now, as He Releases a New Book of Essays, He’s Calling Them Out by Name

Art Critic Barbara Rose, a Champion of Minimalism Whose Writings Crystallized Decades of Creativity, Has Died at 84