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  1. Alice Coltrane: Artist’s Muse and Sonic Healer

    Coltrane, a jazz virtuoso who devoted much of her life to a spiritual journey, is a beacon for today’s artists. An exhibition at the Hammer Museum shows why.

     By Siddhartha Mitter

    Alice Coltrane, circa 1978. She died in 2007 but remains an influential force for many artists.
    Alice Coltrane, circa 1978. She died in 2007 but remains an influential force for many artists.
    Creditvia The John & Alice Coltrane Home
    2. Critic’s Pick

      From Crime Scenes to Hollywood Stars, Weegee Snapped Them All

      ICP offers a rare display of his late-career portraits of celebrities alongside the classic New York photos he is celebrated for. How did he go wrong?

       By Arthur Lubow

      Weegee, “Their First Murder," Oct. 8, 1941.
      Weegee, “Their First Murder," Oct. 8, 1941.
      CreditWeegee (Arthur Fellig); via International Center of Photography

  1. An El Greco Is Pulled From an Auction as Romania Objects

    The Romanian government has long sought dozens of valuable paintings that it says the country’s last king took into exile in 1947.

     By Colin Moynihan

    An exhibition of El Greco works in Milan in 2023.
    CreditRoberto Serra — Iguana Press/Getty Images

  2. Brooklyn Museum Will Lay Off Employees and Scale Back Exhibitions

    The museum, which faces a projected $10 million deficit, said it planned to cut more than a tenth of its employees and mount fewer exhibitions.

     By Zachary Small

    The Brooklyn Museum is laying off workers to try to balance its budget.
    CreditJeenah Moon for The New York Times

  3. The American Dream, Through Foreign Eyes

    A major Dutch museum is staging a huge exhibition of American photography that explores the tension between how the United States would like to see itself, and how it really looks.

     By Nina Siegal

    Works by Robert Frank in “American Photography” at the Rijksmuseum, in which shots by celebrated U.S. photographers are interspersed with amateur snaps and advertising images.
    CreditKelly Schenk/Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

  4. Jaune Quick-to-See Smith Wanted to Be the Rule, Not the Exception

    The artist, who died at 85, used Indigenous imagery like the canoe and the buffalo the way Warhol used soup cans.

     By Jillian Steinhauer

    The artist Jaune Quick-To-See Smith working on a wooden canoe her studio in Corrales, N.M., in 2023.
    CreditBrad Trone for The New York Times
    An Appraisal

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

    This week in Newly Reviewed, Holland Cotter covers two group shows: one devoted to an important gallery from the past, the other focused on language and silence.

     By Holland Cotter

    James Denmark, “Untitled,” circa 1980, cut and pasted fabric and paper on canvas.
    Creditvia James Denmark and Lloyd Toone; Photo by Stan Narten

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  4. Art Review

    100 Years of How Black Painters See Themselves

    Koyo Kouoh, who will curate the 2026 Venice Biennale, has assembled a huge survey at the Bozar Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels presenting Black life on its own, frequently gorgeous, terms.

    By Emily LaBarge

     
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  6. Discovering Family Roots in Brooklyn Slavery

    “Trace/s,” an exhibition at the Center for Brooklyn History, highlights the borough’s neglected story of slavery — and the Black genealogists helping to unearth it.

    By Jennifer Schuessler

     
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