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The Met’s “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350, ” Reviewed

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The Met’s “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350, ” Reviewed

Chop down a poplar tree. Other kinds of wood could work, too, but poplar is an especially soft one, and your task is to trim it into thin planes. These you’ll need to coat in a barrier of plaster and animal glue—naked wood is highly absorbent, and you can’t have it drinking down everything you … Read more

The 2024 Whitney Biennial, Reviewed

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The 2024 Whitney Biennial, Reviewed

If every label in “Even Better Than the Real Thing,” the eighty-first installment of the Whitney Biennial, were peeled off the walls and tossed into the Hudson, what would happen? Some sections would get more confusing, of course. When you walked through the yellow-lit gallery on the museum’s sixth floor, you probably wouldn’t suppose that … Read more