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Sep 25, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Benjamin Sutton

    Public art on parade in New York City this autumn (opens the original)

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    There is a surreal streak in the public art that sprang up in parks and outdoor spaces across New York City this summer, including small objects rendered monumentally, otherworldly abstractions and animals reclaiming popular green spaces. On Governors Island, Alan Michelson’s large installation commissioned by More Art (with the Billion Oyster Project and Governors Island Arts), The Oyster (2026), nods to Indigenous shell middens and the bivalve’s rebounding population in New York Harbor. In Cit

  2. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Benjamin Sutton

    Rare view into Tom Wesselmann’s studio for pop-up duo show with Tomokazu Matsuyama (opens the original)

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    A lucky few will get to visit the late great Tom Wesselmann’s former studio in Cooper Square this month for an invite-only exhibition pairing the Pop Art pioneer’s work with that of the Japanese American contemporary artist Tomokazu Matsuyama. The exhibition, Wesselmann x Matsuyama (until 27 September), was organised by Wesselmann’s estate with support from Almine Rech and highlights both artists’ penchant for bold palettes, maximalist compositions and incorporating mass-produced imagery from ad

  3. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Benjamin Sutton

    The expanded Independent 20th Century fair offers abstraction of all stripes (opens the original)

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    The Independent 20th Century fair in New York has moved from Downtown to Uptown and expanded its footprint substantially, but in its fifth edition it is still fundamentally doing what it set out to do in 2022: provide visitors with opportunities to discover works from the previous century by long-overlooked artists or rarely exhibited bodies of work by familiar Modernists. Now, with 57 exhibitors (an 84% jump from last year’s 31) spread across four floors of Sotheby’s Marcel Breuer-designed head

  4. Article · Aug 31, 2026 · Benjamin Sutton

    Metropolitan Museum and designer John Galliano cancel planned Costume Institute exhibition amid backlash (opens the original)

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    The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the British fashion designer John Galliano have called off an exhibition honouring Galliano that was planned for next spring, following a wave of opposition in light of the designer’s history of antisemitic statements. In a statement on Monday (31 August), Max Hollein, the director and chief executive of the Met, said: “Following thoughtful discussions with John Galliano, we have together decided not to proceed with the exhibition.” Plans for the ex

  5. Article · Aug 25, 2026 · Benjamin Sutton

    Trump officials take down, explore sale of Kehinde Wiley painting commissioned for US embassy (opens the original)

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    The Department of State of the United States has removed a work by Kehinde Wiley that it commissioned for the US embassy in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and that the current ambassador recently described as a symbol of “globalist and woke ideologies”. News of the work’s removal was first reported by Zachary Small of The New York Times. A senior official for the State Department says it is now exploring the legality of deaccessioning the painting, Young Artists After Siamesas 1960 (2015), w

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