Art and Design

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Critic’s Pick
Native Modern Art: From a Cardboard Box to the Met
Nearly lost, Mary Sully’s discovered drawings riff on Modernist geometries and Dakota Sioux beadwork and quilting. Our critic calls it “symphonically bicultural.”
By Holland Cotter
CreditKarsten Moran for The New York Times
Helen Marden, Grieving in Bright Colors and on Her Own Terms
The artist’s new paintings at Gagosian show her working through the loss of her husband, the artist Brice Marden, in a hot palette, feathers and shells.
By Ted Loos
CreditHelen Marden/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Photo by Lauren Lancaster for The New York Times
1. The Met Museum Is Rebounding, but Not With International Visitors
  The museum said it attracted more local visitors during the past year than it did before the pandemic, but only half the international visitors.
  By Zachary Small
  CreditJeenah Moon for The New York Times
2. Last Chance
  Matthew Barney’s Time Has Come Again
  Misunderstood for decades, the sculptor and filmmaker is pushing ceramic to its limits. He’s dancing. He’s making the best work of his career.
  By Jason Farago
  Creditvia Matthew Barney and Gladstone Gallery; Photo by David Regen

The Avant-Garde Psychiatrist Who Built an Artistic Refuge
A show at the American Folk Art Museum spotlights a Catalan doctor’s revolutionary contributions to 20th-century psychiatry and their connections with modern art and Art Brut.
By Travis Diehl
Creditvia Family Ou-Rabah Tosquelles
Critic’s Pick
To Sell Prized Paintings, a University Proclaims They’re Not ‘Conservative’
Valparaiso University is arguing it should never have acquired two paintings, including a Georgia O’Keeffe, in the 1960s. It hopes to sell them to pay for dorm renovations.
By Annie Aguiar
CreditTaylor Glascock for The New York Times
Beyond Outlaw: New Paths for Aging Taggers
At Lehmann Maupin, exhibitions of new work pushing the form of street art forward, from San Francisco’s Barry McGee and Osgemeos, the Brazilian artists he inspired.
By Max Lakin
Creditvia Osgemeos and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul, and London; Photo by Matthew Herrmann
Art Review
These Sculptures Changed What Art Could Be, Then Changed Themselves
Eva Hesse’s latex and fiberglass pieces from the late 1960s have been reunited from five institutions. Their rapid deterioration makes their future uncertain — which may be their best quality.
By Max Lakin
CreditThe Estate of Eva Hesse, via Hauser & Wirth; Photo by Matt Grubb
Last Chance
What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in July
This week in Newly Reviewed, Yinka Elujoba covers Elmer Guevara’s subtle paintings, James Casebere’s reimagined architecture and John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres’s busts of Bronx residents.
By Will HeinrichZoë HopkinsWalker Mimms and Arthur Lubow
CreditFrank Stella/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; via Luhring Augustine, New York

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Museum of Natural History Says It Is Repatriating 124 Human Remains
The museum reports having hundreds of consultations with Native American groups and says it is also returning 90 objects.
By Zachary Small
Heirs of Jews Who Fled the Nazis Return Art to Heirs Whose Family Could Not
An Egon Schiele drawing was returned on Friday at the Manhattan district attorney’s office. The heirs said in a statement that relinquishing the work was “the right thing to do.”
By Tom Mashberg
Living small
A Compact London Home With a Diva of a Staircase
The architect Winka Dubbeldam’s renovation of a nondescript 800-square-foot building resulted in a minimalist house with a maximalist sense of drama.
By Julie Lasky
36 Hours
36 Hours in Nice, France
The French Riviera resort town brims with the unexpected, including a wealth of prehistory, ancient ruins and newer attractions.
By Chloé Braithwaite
When the Paris Olympics Begin, the Seine Is His Stage
To open the Games, the theater director Thomas Jolly has masterminded a spectacular waterborne ceremony depicting 12 scenes from French history.
By Catherine Porter
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Critic’s Notebook
Under Fabric and Around Sculptures, Dancers Respond to Art
Jodi Melnick’s new work is performed throughout a gallery installation, while one by Annie-B Parson sprawls in a sculpture park.
By Brian Seibert
On Location
From Gowanus to Rhinebeck: ‘It’s a Whole Lifestyle Change.’
The two designers never planned to leave Brooklyn. But upstate New York beckoned.
By Tim McKeough
An Egyptian Artist Mesmerizes in Venice With an Opera and a Donkey
At the Biennale, Wael Shawky represented his country with a lush retelling of a failed revolution that offers hope in a troubled political landscape.
By Aruna D’Souza
Upstate Art Weekend Offers a Year’s Worth of Art in Four Days
By car or train, there’s no better time to get out of the city than now, during the fifth edition of this sprawling festival north of New York City.
By Will Heinrich
36 Hours
36 Hours in San Diego
San Diego serves up gorgeous beaches, arty neighborhoods and rich history, yet it still excels at being underrated.
By Freda Moon