Arts

  2. Andrea Mohin/The New York Times

    Review: In Bolshoi’s Ballet, No Shrew to Tame

    Jean-Christophe Maillot’s version of Shakespeare’s comedy is a postmodern mess that replaces the troupe’s reckless hugeness with slapstick cuteness.

    1. 2017 Ettore Sottsass/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Philip Greenberg for The New York Times

      Art Review

      A Polymathic Italian Designer, With Muses and Friends

      The first New York museum show devoted to the design maverick Ettore Sottsass lavishly contextualizes his work, from a red Olivetti typewriter to his role in the Memphis design group.

    2. Cristóbal de Villalpando, Collection Propiedad de la Nación Mexicana, Secretaría de Cultura.

      art review

      From Colonial Mexico, a Towering Vision of Grace

      Cristóbal de Villalpando’s Baroque altarpiece hasn’t left Puebla, Mexico, since 1683. It’s now at the Met, and it’s overpowering.

  1. Art Review

    Perla de Leon, Smithsonian American Art Museum

    Mean Streets, Kind Cameras

    An exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum asks whose images have influenced our view of cities? Would someone who lived in these cities picture them differently than an outsider?