Getting the Art Out of the Studio and Onto Your Kicks

Getting the Art Out of the Studio and Onto Your Kicks

In the robustly expanding realm of artist-brand collaborations, Sky Gellatly, at 44, has operated as a best-kept secret. Style and art world insiders may credit him as a canny go-between for artists and fashion brands keen to exploit potentially lucrative partnerships. But he has, up to now, stayed mostly under …

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Photograph Revives Ukraine-Russia Culture War

Photograph Revives Ukraine-Russia Culture War

It looks like a serene snapshot from Ukraine’s battlefield: A group of armor-clad soldiers huddled around a makeshift table scattered with food and playing cards. Some laugh or smoke, and one lounges on the ground, smiling as he scrolls through his phone. The photograph is unlike others of the Ukrainian …

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Fun Things to Do in NYC in January 2025

Fun Things to Do in NYC in January 2025

‘Grandiloquent’ Through Feb. 8 at Lucille Lortel Theater, 121 Christopher Street, Manhattan; lortel.org. Wordplay can be fun, funny, even punny. But Gary Gulman takes it to another level with an acuity that few other stand-ups can match. Anyone who saw his 2016 performance on “Conan” in which he imagined a …

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Scott Burton’s Civic Engagement and Eroticism Merge at the Pulitzer

Scott Burton’s Civic Engagement and Eroticism Merge at the Pulitzer

Stylish and sharp-witted, Scott Burton’s sculptures of the 1980s doubled as chairs, benches or tables. When they appeared in urban plazas, college campuses and corporate lobbies, they messed with conventions for public art, provokingly and delightfully. A fresh wind blew in stale places. But a stealth polemic lurked: Burton also …

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A Brooklyn Group Get Its Own Home to Support Black Artists

A Brooklyn Group Get Its Own Home to Support Black Artists

Toya Lillard is not a real estate agent. But she had the practiced patter of one, a few weeks ago, while giving a tour of the new headquarters of 651 Arts, a Brooklyn organization dedicated to African diasporic performance. For an arts administrator, she’s been giving a lot of tours …

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What Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2025

What Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2025

Jim Poniewozik Everybody Back to Work at Lumon Industries The dystopian thriller “Severance” premiered in 2022, telling the story of an alternative reality in which workers can have their brains surgically “severed” into two consciousnesses, one for work hours, one for off-work hours. Nothing has matched it since — including …

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