10/09/2023. Watch a TikTok video by @dem_bruddaz, and you might feel a queasy mixture of recognition and disorientation. You’ll see, say, a person running down a street. But wait — is it a person? Why does he turn at such precise 45-degree angles? W...

10/09/2023. “So, what do you want to do next?” The question shadowed director Steve McQueen’s first tour of Hollywood, in late summer 2008. His debut film, “Hunger,” a mesmerizing and unsettling character study of Irish revolutionary ...

10/08/2023. All is indubitably not fair in love, war or “Fair Play,” the crackling feature debut from writer-director Chloe Domont that became a sensation at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. (It sold there to Netflix for $20 million, and is now...

10/08/2023. Felipe Gallegos used to work in fashion, designing store displays for Abercrombie & Fitch and Uniqlo. Now he spends his days with plants, helping them thrive in office buildings across New York City. On a recent morning, Gallegos and eight of his ...

10/08/2023. Hidden within the seemingly barren expanse of White Sands National Park in New Mexico are human footprints. But these impressions are much more than random tracks: They are ancient vignettes cast in gypsum-rich sand. The footprints tell stories of hu...

10/08/2023. Henri Dauman, a Holocaust survivor and French emigre who as a magazine photographer depicted the ascent of postwar political and celebrity culture with his pictures of President John F. Kennedy’s funeral, Elvis Presley entering and leaving the U...

10/08/2023. This year’s New York City Ballet fall gala was an outlier. In recent years, fashion has taken center stage, with designers and choreographers collaborating to make new work. But on Thursday, this annual event at Lincoln Center took a different p...

10/08/2023. When American soldiers fought on the battlefields of World War II, they were carrying more than weapons. They also carried ideas — quite literally. The Armed Services Editions, a series of specially designed pocket-size paperbacks, were intro...

10/08/2023. At a dinner party last winter in Toronto, when a tablewide silence descended, I tried to fill it by asking what everyone was reading. A colleague snorted and pointed out that any time people ask that question, what they’re really doing is waitin...

10/08/2023. Christie’s New York announced that Arshile Gorky’s Charred Beloved I (1946) will highlight this fall’s 20th Century Evening Sale. A seminal painting by one of the most important, i...

10/08/2023. Solo shows have been around as long as there has been theater — longer, actually, if we count storytelling by a campfire. There is an elemental intimacy about the format and, let’s face it, an economic appeal at a time of belt-tightening. ...

10/08/2023. Bonhams announced the landmark auction, The Alan and Simone Hartman Collection: The Inaugural Sale, this winter in New York. The esteemed art and antique gallerist Alan Hartman (1930-2023) and his ...

10/08/2023. When Colombian artist Delcy Morelos created a giant maze of earth at the Venice Biennale in 2022, she watched some visitors respond to the structure in a way that troubled her. “People would kick the work,” she remarked, sitting in the g...

10/08/2023. PhillipsX announced Modeler le papier // Shapes on paper, a selling exhibition focused on drawings, studies, and works on paper by leading sculptors of the 20th and 21st centuries. From Alexander ...

10/09/2023. Phillips’ October Drop features Emily Mae Smith’s first bronze sculpture, Gazer. The Drop will take place on 10 October on dropshop.phillips.com at 10am. Known for her virtuosic painting...