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  1. Kara Walker Is No One’s Robot

    At SFMOMA, the artist enacts a parable about trauma and healing in Black life — and makes her first foray into robotics. “I went down a little sci-fi rabbit hole the last couple years working on this piece.”

     By Hilarie M. Sheets

    CreditMarissa Leshnov for The New York Times

  1. Dutch Fashion Designer Iris van Herpen Moves Into Art

    “There’s more to me than only couture,” she said, previewing her first exhibition of sculpture. Catch it while you can: The show will last only 45 minutes.

     By Nina Siegal

    With her new show of sculptures, the fashion designer Iris van Herpen is “letting go of the boundaries we set for ourselves.” Her Westerpark studio holds a canvas of tulle decorated with swirling shapes made of dried splatters of paint and 3-D elements that recall fossils.
    CreditMelissa Schriek for The New York Times

  2. A Rubens Returns to a German Castle, 80 Years After It Was Stolen

    The oil painting of a saint, looted from the castle in the closing weeks of World War II by the ducal family that once owned it, is being returned by a Buffalo museum.

     By Catherine Hickley

    A 17th-century oil painting depicting St. Gregory of Nazianzus, by Peter Paul Rubens, is returning to the German castle from which it was taken in 1945.
    CreditChristie’s

  3. Neighbors Fight Affordable Housing, but Need Libraries. Can’t We Make a Deal?

    An uplifting new library in Manhattan comes with 12 floors of subsidized apartments. It’s a clever way to find community support for housing.

     By Michael Kimmelman

    Through a skylight and huge front windows, light fills the new branch library in the Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan.
    CreditAmir Hamja for The New York Times
    Critic’s Notebook

  4. How Architecture Became One of Ukraine’s Essential Defenses

    An exhibition in downtown Manhattan showcases more than a dozen grass-roots efforts to rebuild war-stricken cities.

     By Jason Farago

    “Rave Toloka,” an initiative of the Ukrainian collective Repair Together, brings Kyiv’s DJs and members of the electronic music scene to destroyed villages for a hybrid day of volunteering and dancing.
    CreditOleksiy Ushakov/UNDP Ukraine, via Repair Together
    Exhibition Review

  5. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in June

    This week in Newly Reviewed, Martha Schwendener covers Jutta Koether’s moody expressionist paintings, Ina Archer’s “Black Black Moonlight: A Minstrel Show” and Susan Weil ‘s pastel “Spray Drawings.”

     By Martha Schwendener, Jillian Steinhauer and Will Heinrich

    Jutta Koether’s “You better get smart! / Boxerfrau II,” 1984, at Galerie Buchholz.
    CreditJutta Koether, via Galerie Buchholz, New York

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  1. 36 Hours

    36 Hours in Dublin

    Explore a whiskey renaissance, tour the country’s oldest public library and brave a brisk sea dip in the Irish capital.

    By Megan Specia

     

  2. 30 L.G.B.T.Q. Artists Look Back on the Pleasures and Pain of Being 30

    For Pride Month, we asked people ranging in age from 34 to 93 to share an indelible memory. Together, they offer a personal history of queer life as we know it today.

    By Nicole Acheampong, Max Berlinger, Jason Chen, Kate Guadagnino, Colleen Hamilton, Mark Harris, Juan A. Ramírez, Coco Romack, Michael Snyder and John Wogan

     
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