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  1. mysteries
    Atelier Jolie Has Been DefacedThe former Basquiat studio turned Angelina Jolie concept project has been painted pink.
    By Clio Chang
  2. land disputes
    Bad News About Kevin Costner’s Buffalo SculptureAfter a decades-long legal battle, he may be forced to sell it.
    By Clio Chang
  3. design hunting
    ‘I Sold My Soul, But Warhol Would Be Proud’Meet the M.F.A. grads pumping out wall art for mid-tier hotel chains and retirement homes.
    By Molly Osberg
  4. look book
    The Look Book Goes to the Yayoi Kusama OpeningWe stopped by the artist’s new exhibit at David Zwirner gallery.
    By Kelsie Schrader
  5. museums
    Was the Breuer Building Underpriced?$100 million feels low — until you consider what it actually means to own a brutalist masterpiece.
    By Adriane Quinlan Kim Velsey
  6. books
    New York City’s Latest Specialty Libraries for Design ObsessivesFrom critic Michael Sorkin’s collection at CUNY to the Brazilian modernism archive at R & Company.
    By Diana Budds
  7. museums
    The Breuer: Requiem for a MuseumThe Sotheby’s purchase will turn the brutalist masterpiece into a mere auction house.
    By Jerry Saltz
  8. openings
    A ‘Greater New York’ for DesignersAt the new Bushwick gallery International Objects.
    By Diana Budds
  9. great rooms
    Hugh Hayden Makes Art in a Former Fruit WarehouseZebras and Barbies and bears and a dog named Mars.
    By Wendy Goodman
  10. architecture
    There’s a Monument to South Central L.A. on Top of the MetOnce the run in New York ends, it goes back to its home community for permanent installation.
    By Diana Budds
  11. seen
    Give Me the Full Immersive!From Kahlo to Klimt, Van Gogh to Tut, immersive experiences are saturating New York. They’re pricey and schlocky and — surprisingly — not half bad.
    By Adam Platt
  12. openings
    O’Flaherty’s Is Back, This Time With Tubs of VaselineThe East Village gallery inaugurated its new space with naked men sculpting themselves into a messy copy of a Greek statue.
    By Diana Budds
  13. power
    Crime of the CenturiesTomb raiders, crooked art dealers, and museum curators fed billionaire Michael Steinhardt’s addiction to antiquities. Many also happened to be stolen.
    By Greg Donahue
  14. 21 questions
    Ekene Ijeoma Has Removed All Bad Design From His Life (Except for Streets)The artist answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    By Diana Budds
  15. art
    Felix Gonzalez-Torres Never Saw This Work EitherNearly 30 years after the artist’s death, David Zwirner stages two pieces never manifested during his lifetime. How should we think about them?
    By Madeline Leung Coleman
  16. public art watch
    Mashed Potatoes Meet MonetClimate activists have been celebrated for defacing great paintings. Why?
    By Jerry Saltz
  17. interior design
    Tiwa Select Moves to New YorkWith an exhibition of textile screens and collages by Megumi Arai.
    By Diana Budds
  18. 21 questions
    Mary Mattingly Wants to Live in a Brooklyn Navy Yard Shipping CraneThe artist answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    As told to Diana Budds
  19. 21 questions
    Ebony L. Haynes Was Obsessed With the Encyclopedia Britannica As a KidThe director of 52 Walker answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    As told to Diana Budds
  20. design edit
    Nature-Inspired Glass Lighting, Soft Seating at Lincoln Center, and More FindsPlus a monument to a historic Filipino settlement in Louisiana.
    By Diana Budds
  21. street view
    The Emigrant Becomes a Giant Projector ScreenRestored bank building now holds digitally reproduced gold.
    By Justin Davidson
  22. 21 questions
    Duke Riley Once Owned H.P. Lovecraft’s Front ToothThe artist answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    As told to Diana Budds
  23. design edit
    Psychosexual Furniture, Raf Simons’s Shaker Home Goods, and More FindsPlus a new documentary on the global fight for safe streets.
    By Diana Budds
  24. public art watch
    Friends Seminary Is Getting Its Own Turrell ‘Skyspace’And it will be open to the public.
    By Diana Budds
  25. 21 questions
    Anne Pasternak Rearranges Every Hotel Room She Stays InThe director of the Brooklyn Museum answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    As told to Diana Budds
  26. 21 questions
    Magda Sawon Is Always Too EarlyThe co-founder of Postmasters Gallery answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    As told to Diana Budds
  27. 21 questions
    Chella Man Wants to Redesign Headphones As ArmorThe artist and activist answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    As told to Diana Budds
  28. 21 questions
    Qualeasha Wood Wants to Get Crab Legs With Cardi B.The textile artist answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    As told to Diana Budds
  29. public art watch
    Can Dumbo’s Selfie Street Handle Another Attraction?Performance artists and TikTok influencers will have to learn to share the cobblestones.
    By Zach Schiffman
  30. why this looks like that
    A ‘Comical Dungeon’ Designed in VR Takes Over a Chinatown GalleryNeo-feudalism and medieval creatures inspired Ryan Decker’s first solo show.
    By Diana Budds
  31. 21 questions
    Laura Raicovich Thinks Museums Should Have Fewer Shows a YearThe writer and curator answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    As told to Diana Budds
  32. the group portrait
    The Talented Security Guards of the MetThey’re enforcers, tour guides, artists.
    By Clio Chang
  33. 21 questions
    Coco Fusco’s Best View of the City Was From a Birthday Boat RideThe artist answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    As told to Diana Budds
  34. local lore
    The Williamsburg Building That Painted Over BasquiatWere the residents of a former factory on South 11th Street living in the “Sistine Chapel” of SAMO graffiti?
    By Diana Budds
  35. the group portrait
    A Basquiat Family ReunionThe artist’s sisters have put on an exhibition of his work to remind the world where he came from — and have a party.
    By Carl Swanson
  36. 21 questions
    Legacy Russell Wants to Live in the Whitney’s Tiny Adobe HousesThe Kitchen’s executive director and chief curator answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
    As told to Diana Budds
  37. chinatown
    The Jail Money TrapThe Museum of Chinese in America was desperate to buy its building. The city found a reason to pay for it — one that threw Chinatown into turmoil.
    By Esther Wang
  38. opioid crisis
    The Met Will Remove the Sackler Name From Its GalleriesThe move follows years of pressure from activists, who said the museum was legitimizing the family despite its role in the opioid crisis.
    By Sarah Jones
  39. encounter
    At Jamian Juliano-Villani’s New Gallery O’Flaherty’s, ‘Taste Is Out the Door’The painter and her pals thought the art world had gotten too prissy. “This is the thing. No one’s doing anything cool.”
    By Matthew Schneier
  40. art
    New York’s Most Beloved PuppetsFrom the childhood comforts of Sesame Street to the gleeful pop perversities of Avenue Q, a new show captures the heritage of puppetry in the city.
    By Carl Swanson
  41. street view
    MoMA’s ‘Automania’: Car Culture, Minus the CultureA show that doesn’t get much past the chrome and glossy paint.
    By Justin Davidson
  42. big boxes
    The Astor Place Kmart Was My Place to Be NormalI bought most of my clothes there, and ate cheap pizza in the café.
    By Jerry Saltz
  43. museums
    The Queens Museum Has Become a Pandemic Community Hub“The answer to ‘What can we be as a museum?’ comes from the question of ‘What do people need us to be?’”
    By Diana Budds
  44. design edit
    Slouchy Ceramics, Deconstructed Furniture, and Other Things I Liked This WeekSelected pieces from four new design exhibitions and one crowdsourced Instagram account focused on graphic design finds
    By Diana Budds
  45. up high
    This Artist Posed As a Hungarian Billionaire Buyer to Get Into 25 PenthousesAdopting a new persona, then photographing the view from the 100th floor.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  46. street view
    The Art on This Big Bushwick Project Is Not Just a Marketing PloyDenizen aims to engage with its Brooklyn surroundings.
    By Justin Davidson
  47. space of the week
    Preview an Immersive Installation of Contemporary Queer ArtworkTextile artist Liz Collins curated portraits by 95 queer artists to create an totally transformative experience.
    By Wendy Goodman
  48. fall design
    A Soho Loft That Still Feels Like a Soho LoftOther than adding a kitchen and a bathroom, the artist Dorothea Rockburne hasn’t done much to the place since she moved in more than forty years ago.
    By Wendy Goodman
  49. ask the experts
    A Master Framer on How to Preserve Artwork for Decades“No work should ever be hung so sunlight passes directly over it.”
    By David Walters
  50. space of the week
    At Home With Françoise GilotThe 98-year-old artist, who had two children with Pablo Picasso and went on to marry Jonas Salk, still paints every day in her New York apartment.
    By Wendy Goodman
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