Art & Design

Highlights

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Creditvia The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Nicholas Alan Cope
The Met’s Next Big Fashion Show Comes From One Little-Known Woman
Sandy Schreier is the most important American collector of couture you’ve never heard of.
By Vanessa Friedman
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CreditVictor Llorente for The New York Times
Critic’s NOTEBOOK
An Escape Room Where You Can’t Escape Your Privilege
An interactive art installation turns a live-action game into a disarming demonstration of social inequality.
By Jillian Steinhauer
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  CreditPhotographs by Tony Cenicola/The New York Times
  Inside Hushed Museum Hallways, a Rumble Over Pay Grows Louder
  Art workers around the country are sharing their salaries and in some cases forming unions to put pressure on their institutions.
  By Elizabeth A. Harris and Robin Pogrebin
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  CreditVincent Tullo for The New York Times
  Eight Artists Withdraw From Whitney Biennial Over Board Member’s Ties to Tear Gas
  The artists cited the museum’s “inertia” over calls to remove Warren B. Kanders.
  By Colin Moynihan

Art in Review
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CreditJeenah Moon for The New York Times
Beat the Heat With These 10 Must-See Art Shows
Find a cool reprieve — and endless stimulation — at these exhibitions in New York City.
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CreditHulton Archive/Getty Images
Hitler Looted the Art, Then They Looted Hitler
New research is helping the hunt for missing art, largely amassed by Hitler, then re-stolen by desperate Germans in the closing days of the war.
By Catherine Hickley
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CreditDavid Denil/Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation-Arles
6 Photographers to Look Out For at the Arles Festival
Where is the art form headed? These rising stars offer some clues.
By Daphné Anglès
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CreditMr./KK; Julien Mignot for The New York Times
Pharrell Williams Discovers His Inner Child in a Gun-Filled Manga World
The singer, producer and entrepreneur has curated a show in Paris of work by the Japanese artist Mr.
By Laura Cappelle
Show Us Your Wall
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CreditCharlie Rubin for The New York Times
When You Display Ai Weiwei, Beware of Cats
For the sake of their collection, Trey and Jenny Laird had to crawl around to retrieve hundreds of pieces of a tabletop work upset by a pet.
By Ted Loos