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In ‘Charles Ray: Figure Ground,’ a Radical Conservative on Display
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has never looked as sharply contemporary, even hip, as it does with the exhibition “Charles…
Charles Ray Is Pushing Sculpture to Its Limit
“When you get to the more volatile social subject matter, I often think it starts as a provocation or a…
In ‘African Origin’ Show at Met, New Points of Light Across Cultures
Object for object, there isn’t an exhibition in town more beautiful than “The African Origin of Civilization” at the Metropolitan…
Is Disney the Met’s Fairy Godmother?
“Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts,” which opened this month at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is…
Met Museum Removes Sackler Name From Wing Over Opioid Ties
In the wake of growing outrage over the role the Sacklers may have played in the opioid crisis, the Metropolitan…
He Sold Away His People’s Heritage. He’s in the Jungle to Get It Back.
As Toek Tik recounts it, he was a teenage foot soldier for the genocidal Khmer Rouge in Cambodia in the…