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Category: Art & Museums
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The Exacting, Ephemeral Art of Ice Carving
A look inside a Queens studio where Buddhas, sneakers and swans are carved with reverence and the knowledge that beauty, like ice, is fleeting.
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Prominent Architecture Firm Is Accused of Illegally Ousting Employees
A federal labor regulator says the firm, Snohetta, laid off eight employees in retaliation for trying to unionize.
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Walter Steding, Otherworldly One-Man Band and Portraitist, Is Dead at 75
A self-taught musician, he wore flashing goggles while playing the violin. But his real skill was as a painter, and his portraits offered an eerie commentary on the times.
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The Priest, the Financier and the $10 Millon Townhouse
When a pastor learned his childhood home might undergo a glow-up, he saw his beloved Brooklyn further receding — and took to a different kind of pulpit.
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T Magazine’s Most-Read Art and Culture Features From 2025
A look at Japan’s microseasons, a retrospective on Gen X and more: These were readers’ 15 favorite stories.
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Deaths in 2025: A Yearlong Procession of Giants
Marquee names all, they found international fame in the arts, politics, the sciences and beyond.
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For a Night at the Museum, Pajamas and Dinosaurs
Roaming the American Museum of Natural History in pajamas made for a night to remember for hundreds of children and their brave parents.
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Robert Mnuchin, Stock Trader Turned Art Dealer, Dies at 92
A major player in the block-trading boom, he left Wall Street for the art world, winning a Jeff Koons sculpture at auction for $91 million in 2019.
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Theodor Pistek, Oscar-Winning ‘Amadeus’ Costume Designer, Dies at 93
A busy designer who worked on over 100 films, he was also a racecar driver and a painter of photorealistic works, many depicting cars and their operators.