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A.I. Can Make Art That Feels Human. Whose Fault Is That?

A fake Drake/Weeknd mash-up is not a threat to our species’s culture. It’s a warning: We can’t let our imaginations shrink to machine size.

The Met’s New European Galleries Feature 6 Must-See Paintings

After a five-year renovation, some of the museum’s grandest galleries have reopened. Our critic frames six artworks you cannot miss.

War Hasn’t Stopped the Kyiv Biennial. It’s Multiplied It.

The contemporary art show has spread beyond Ukraine’s borders and is now an eight-city European festival about war, democracy and solidarity.

Mark Rothko at Full Scale, and in Half Light

Sublime and vulgar all at once, his diaphanous stains of color have come together in a once-in-a-generation show in Paris.

When Everyone Becomes a War Photographer

The images streaming onto our phones from Israel and Gaza, many coming from those fighting or caught up in the war, don’t just document the...

Ours Is the Least Artistically Innovative Century in 500 Years

A Times critic argues that 21st-century culture is likely to be forgotten. But it’s not as bad as it sounds.

J.M. Coetzee’s Best Books: A Guide

His spare, icily precise books explore humanity’s most serious themes, including South Africa’s legacy of apartheid. And not all of them are downers.

Manet’s ‘Olympia,’ the 19th Century’s Most Scandalous Painting, Comes to New York

“Olympia,” the brothel scene that birthed modern art, crosses the Atlantic for the first time in the Met exhibition “Manet/Degas.”

‘Ed Ruscha/Now Then’ Review: American Art’s Deadpan Laureate

Ed Ruscha, intrepid explorer of language and image, prefigured a digital culture of words on the move. A retrospective at MoMA shines new light on...

How Hokusai’s Art Crashed Over the Modern World

The MFA Boston shows how one of the greatest printmakers, from Edo Japan, inspired a tidal wave of followers, from Gauguin to Lichtenstein.
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