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States Pick Up the Slack on Arts Funding After Federal Reductions

State legislatures are moving to soften the blow of shrinking federal cultural support. According to the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA), combined appropriations for the 50 states and…

Charting Diane Arbus’s “Constellation” at Park Avenue Armory

by Justin Muñoz

Stepping through Park Avenue Armory’s 67th-Street entrance you meet a hush that feels almost theatrical. A vast, palate-cleansing, undecorated foyer stretches ahead, its longest wall carrying a vinyl timeline…

Berndnaut Smilde : Sculpting Clouds Indoors

by Justin Muñoz

Step inside an abandoned chapel and, for a few heart-stopping seconds, a luminous cloud floats just above the pews, drifting like a dream you could almost reach out and touch. This impossible sight is…

Long-Lost Rodin Marble Le Désespoir Found on a Family Piano Sells for $1.2 Million

For more than a century, a luminous white-marble figure by Auguste Rodin rested unnoticed atop a family piano in central France. The owners, who believed it to be a harmless copy, invited auctioneer Aymeric…

The Muse He Silenced: Picasso’s Dark Affair with Dora Maar

by Raquel Cohen

Dora Maar began the 1930s as a daring photographer whose surreal images set her apart in the Paris avant garde. Politically engaged and close to the Surrealists, she worked with writers like Georges Bataille,…

Real Masterpieces, Reel Risk: Inside Wes Anderson's “The Phoenician Scheme”

by Justin Muñoz

As the crate opened on Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Enfant assis en robe bleue the bedroom set seemed to inhale. Varnish caught the key light and the crew instinctively lowered their voices. Knowing that Greta…

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