Torbjorn Rodland’s Puzzling Photos Are Unsettling and Arousing
The Norwegian photographer is having a moment, with major European shows. His pictures capture changes in photography in the internet era.
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CreditAndrew White for The New York Times Met Changes 50-Year Admissions Policy: Non-New Yorkers Must Pay
With a decline in visitors paying the “suggested” full admission price, the museum is looking for ways to regain revenue.
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CreditAndrew White for The New York Times A Critics’ Conversation
The Met Should Be Open to All. The New Pay Policy Is a Mistake.
The Times’s chief art critics weigh in on the end of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s pay-as-you-wish policy for out-of-state visitors.
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Inspired by Harriet Tubman, an Artist Takes Glass to Extremes
Joyce J. Scott explores the terrain between craft and art in her glass-beaded series focusing on racism and violence.
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CreditJosh Haner/The New York Times Is Donald Trump, Wall-Builder-in-Chief, a Conceptual Artist?
Christoph Büchel, the artist provocateur, proposes protecting the border wall prototypes as a national monument because they “talk so much about our history.”
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Creditvia YouTube Columbia Professor Accused of Sexual Misconduct Retires
Five women went public with accounts about how the professor had harassed them while they were his students.
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CreditAdrienne Grunwald for The New York Times See the Art That Tavi Gevinson Collects
The blogger-turned-actress lives in Brooklyn and is drawn to artwork about young women.
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CreditCassandra Giraldo for The New York Times Historic Church to Be New Home for Children’s Museum of Manhattan
The museum isn’t moving far — to the former Church of Christ, Scientist, at 96th Street — but its new space is leagues away in what it can accomplish.
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CreditJames Hill for The New York Times A Diary From a Gulag Meets Evil With Lightness
A unique chronicle written from the Gulag emerged after 70 years, requiring dogged detective work to unearth the author’s identity.
