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  1. She Knows the Secrets of the Women on the Frick’s Walls

    Aimee Ng, the museum’s new chief curator, broke out of the academic mold with a video series called “Cocktails With a Curator.” Here’s how she’s drawing new audiences.

     By Alexandra Starr

    Aimee Ng, the Frick Collection’s chief curator, with “Comtesse d’Haussonville” by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1845, in Henry Clay Frick’s bedroom.
    Aimee Ng, the Frick Collection’s chief curator, with “Comtesse d’Haussonville” by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1845, in Henry Clay Frick’s bedroom.
    CreditSara Messinger for The New York Times
  2. Critic’s Pick

    Surrealism at 100, Sprawls and Seduces in Philadelphia

    How a movement went from dreamworld to vanguard to establishment of its own.

     By Arthur Lubow

    Salvador Dalí’s “Aphrodisiac Telephone” (1938) features a plastic lobster in this editioned version, but boasted a real lobster in the original rendition. In the exhibition, it appears in front of Paul Delvaux’s “Phases of the Moon” (1939), on the left, and Max Ernst’s “The Fireside Angel (The Triumph of Surrealism),” 1937.
    Salvador Dalí’s “Aphrodisiac Telephone” (1938) features a plastic lobster in this editioned version, but boasted a real lobster in the original rendition. In the exhibition, it appears in front of Paul Delvaux’s “Phases of the Moon” (1939), on the left, and Max Ernst’s “The Fireside Angel (The Triumph of Surrealism),” 1937.
    CreditC. Herscovici/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Foundation Paul Delvaux, Sint-Idesbald – ARS/SABAM Belgium; Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris; via Philadelphia Art Museum

  1. Dutch Return ‘Java Man’ Bones, With 40,000 Fossils Set to Follow

    The items were taken in the late 19th century from what was then called the Dutch East Indies. Indonesia had been trying to get them back for decades.

     By Nina Siegal

    A skull cap, right, part of a set of prehistoric bones known as “Java Man,” was returned by the Netherlands to Indonesia on Wednesday.
    CreditIlvy Njiokiktjien for The New York Times

  2. Tuan Andrew Nguyen Wins High Line Commission

    On the High Line Plinth next spring, the Vietnam-based artist will resurrect an ancient Buddha, destroyed by the Taliban, as a vision of resilience.

     By Hilarie M. Sheets

    Tuan Andrew Nguyen with the head of his new sculpture, a 27-foot-tall sandstone homage to the Bamiyan Buddhas, two sixth-century monumental statues in central Afghanistan that were destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban.
    CreditQuinn Ryan Mattingly/The High Line

  3. Whitney Biennial Names 56 Artists to Unwind These ‘Weird Times’

    The 2026 exhibition focuses on how artists measure American influence and their relationship to a country whose role in the world is changing.

     By Zachary Small

    Left to right, Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer, curators of the Whitney Biennial 2026, and some of the artists in the exhibition: Agosto Machado (standing); Kamrooz Aram (standing); Samia Halaby (seated), Jonathan González (standing), Precious Okoyomon (seated), Emilie Louise Gossiaux, who is blind.
    CreditMarcus Maddox for The New York Times

  4. Best Art of 2025

    The art world moved forward with glowing renovations to some of New York City’s cultural jewels, as well as sweeping surveys of ballroom queens, Indigenous artists and more.

     By Holland Cotter

    Works of African art in the Met’s redesigned Rockefeller wing, which first opened in 1982.
    CreditChristopher Gregory-Rivera for The New York Times

  5. Art Gallery Shows to See in December

    This week in Newly Reviewed, Andrew Russeth covers Jeff Koons’s big-budget baubles, Park Hyunki’s artificial boulder, Joseph Geagan’s demimonde and a group show of photos on fridges.

     By Max LakinAndrew Russeth and Martha Schwendener

    Chanel, Cruise 2009 shoes.
    Credit© The Museum at FIT

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  4. 36 Hours

    36 Hours in San Luis Obispo County

    Wineries and boutique hotels have sprouted along the backroads and once-sleepy main streets of this Central Coast county.

    By Freda Moon

     

  5. The Breakout Stars of 2025

    Across the arts, these 10 performers took a leap of faith this year and stuck the landing in a big way.

    By Maya Salam

     
  6. Critic’s Pick

    Surveillance Never Looked So Good

    Charisse Pearlina Weston turns nefarious materials developed to monitor people into precarious, undulating forms.

    By Andrew Russeth

     
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  8. 41 Things That Stuck With Us in 2025

    Aunt Gladys. Tyler, the Creator. That sex scene in “The Naked Gun.” These are the things Culture staffers couldn’t stop thinking about this year.

    By The New York Times

     
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