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December 5, 2017
Shaj Mathew
The Power of the Louvre Abu Dhabi
Can the museum tell a new story about art—and reshape the Gulf's image?
July 3, 2017
Sophie Pinkham
How a Russian Street Art Museum Defies Kremlin Censors
St. Petersburg's Street Art Museum, housed in a working factory, negotiates contemporary art, Stalinist kitsch, and potent dissent.
February 8, 2017
Jo Livingstone
Donald Trump and the Uses of the Past
New York’s oldest museum is safeguarding the Post-it protests against the president. But what good is history in an era that disdains it?
December 23, 2015
Meaghan Murphy
Is this the ugliest museum sign in the country?
December 14, 2015
Mikaela Lefrak
Photographing Old Russia with a Modern Filter
Young Russian Instagrammers are reimagining their country's cultural spaces for themselves.
March 6, 2015
Saul Austerlitz
Look MoMA, I’m on TV!
What happens when television invades the museum?
December 17, 2014
Zachary Fine
Why We Need Museums Now More Than Ever
An art critic and the Met's former director make the case for objects in the digital age
November 2, 2014
Jed Perl
Cut-Out of the Artist as a Young Man
MoMA's new Matisse exhibition is the must-see museum show in New York this fall
October 18, 2014
Cristina Ruiz
Curators as Kissingers: Can Museums Repair Diplomatic Relations?
April 7, 2014
Sonya Michel
The National Women's History Museum Apparently Doesn't Much Care for Women's Historians
January 13, 2014
Jed Perl
MoMA's Faux-Populist Expansion Makes it Look Like a Department Store
This is how you ruin a cultural institution
July 2, 2013
Nora Caplan-Bricker
Crowdfunding Culture: Namaste, and Welcome to the Smithsonian
June 19, 2013
Jed Perl
Must-See Summer Art Shows
Three of New York's best
May 5, 2003
Jed Perl
Everyday Symbolist
December 2, 1996
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Jed Perl
Flag Burning
Jasper Johns’s work does have a certain fidgety elegance. But his effects are so drearily localized that the refinements close down a picture instead of pulling us into a world that has an integrity all its own.
March 27, 1989
John Updike
Fast Art
The sweatless creations of Andy Warhol.
May 23, 1949
Lincoln Kirstein
Centrifugal, Centripetal
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