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    Some of Tom Sachs’s former employees have complained about a degrading work environment.
    CreditEvan Jenkins for The New York Times

    As His Nike Deal Stalls, Tom Sachs Apologizes for Workplace Culture

    The artist’s former employees had said he made impossible demands. “We did not take the necessary time to professionalize our operations,” Sachs said. “I wish I had prioritized this a decade ago.”

     By Zachary Small

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      Connie Butler of the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles will become the next director of MoMA PS1 in Queens, N.Y., in September. It has been without a director since last June.
      CreditTag Christof for The New York Times

      MoMA PS1 Looks to Los Angeles for New Director

      The Long Island City contemporary art museum has chosen a veteran curator as its leader: Connie Butler of the Hammer Museum.

       By Robin Pogrebin

  1. Critic’s Notebook
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    Simiya Sudduth’s mural “Justice,” left, based on a tarot card designed by the artist, above Jefferson Avenue in St. Louis. The work is a part of Counterpublic, an innovative triennial art exhibition in the city.
    CreditWhitney Curtis for The New York Times

    Counterpublic in St. Louis Pushes the Public-Art Envelope

    One of the largest civic exhibitions in the United States challenges artists to help invigorate neighborhoods.

     By Siddhartha Mitter

  2. Critic’s Pick
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    View of the exhibition, “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, puts a white wedding ensemble (2018) from the House of Chanel on a pedestal, with organza silk flowers and trousers of white piqué.
    CreditLandon Nordeman for The New York Times

    The Met Walks a Fine Line on Lagerfeld: Judge the Clothes, Not the Man

    “A Line of Beauty” focuses on dualities in the dazzling work of the legendary designer, but it is coy about the controversies.

     By Vanessa Friedman

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    Lee Friedlander, “New York City,” 1969. Joel Coen, the filmmaker, curated Friedlander’s photos for a book titled “Framed,” which is the basis for two exhibitions. “The first thing I noticed was the splitting,” Coen said of the way Friedlander repeatedly organizes a picture with a vertical post dividing the frame.
    CreditLee Friedlander, via Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco and Luhring Augustine, New York

    Filmmaker Joel Coen Puts His Spin on the Photos of Lee Friedlander

    Working in his California home 3,000 miles away during Covid, the director struck a sympathetic chord with the venerated photographer. A book and two gallery shows resulted.

     By Arthur Lubow

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    Cara Romero, “Three Sisters,” 2022.
    Creditvia Cara Romero

    The Getty Gives $17 Million to Museums for Pacific Standard Time

    In 2024, institutions in Southern California will stage some 60 shows on art and science, from climate change to Indigenous futurism.

     By Jori Finkel

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    Peter Shear’s “Door to Door,” 2022, oil on canvas.
    Creditvia Peter Shear and Cheim & Read; Photo by Stuart Snoddy

    What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in May

    Want to see new art in the city? Check out Michael McGrath’s emoji landscapes, Enrique Chagoya’s “reverse anthropology” or King Cobra’s metaphorical butchery.

     By Roberta Smith, Martha Schwendener, John Vincler, Travis Diehl and Arthur Lubow

  1. Norman Foster Is Still Looking Upward

    At 87, the British architect is being honored with a major retrospective that glances back on some of his greatest buildings and toward his vision for the future.

    By Farah Nayeri

     

  2. King Charles’s Photographer Wanted a ‘Little Piece of Theater’

    On Saturday, Hugo Burnand had just minutes to take the official portraits of Britain’s newly crowned King Charles III.

    By Alex Marshall

     
  3. Art of Craft

    For This Glass Blower, Art Is a Full-Body Sport

    The intense process of working with glass, Deborah Czeresko says, means “moving all the time.”

    By Joshua Needelman and Sasha Arutyunova

     

  4. One Photographer’s Challenge: To Turn King Charles III Into an Icon

    Hugo Burnand is the coronation’s official portrait photographer. He will have just moments to capture an image of the newly crowned British monarch for the history books.

    By Alex Marshall

     

  5. The Art World Redefines Ownership

    Seizures of looted art have made potential buyers and sellers of antiquities apprehensive, and even reluctant.

    By Farah Nayeri

     
  6. Critic’s Pick

    For Bispo do Rosario, Art Could Only Be a Divine Calling

    The first U.S. retrospective of a 20th-century self-taught Brazilian artist adds another name to the “outsider” canon and renders it moot.

    By Roberta Smith

     

  7. Exploring a Transformational Period in Korean Art

    Four artists of the Dansaekhwa movement, known for its monochrome abstract paintings, will be featured by the PKM Gallery at TEFAF New York.

    By David Belcher

     

  8. TEFAF New York, a ‘Little Jewel Box’ of a Fair, Carves Out Its Own Niche

    The event, which kicks off the busy spring art season, boasts a strong slate of New York galleries — along with head-turning works.

    By Ted Loos

     

  9. The Broadway Producer Aiming to ‘Sharpie Women Into History’

    Jenna Segal set out to collect works by every artist shown in Peggy Guggenheim’s “Exhibition of 31 Women.” This May, she’ll share their art with the world.

    By Ted Loos

     

  10. Immersive Art Exhibitions: Spellbinding, or Forgettable?

    Experiential art spaces are cropping up worldwide. Critics pan them, audiences love them and they have the attention of the art world.

    By Christy Choi