Jason Farago
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Tales of 19th-Century A.I.: Don’t Fall in Love With a Singing Robot
Now we fret about chatbots. An earlier age worried about automatons, the uncanny humanoid contraptions whose voices could trigger love or mania.
Blaise Cendrars’s Eye-Opening Artist’s Book at the Morgan
A travelogue in verse, rich with Sonia Delaunay’s art pyrotechnics, is the centerpiece of one of the most eye-opening shows of the summer.
‘Rear View’ Is Rather Forward Thinking
At LGDR’s new gallery, 60 backward-gazing works by artists like Degas, Klimt and Cecily Brown highlight blue-chip buttocks.
Heinali Is Reconstructing Kyiv, One Synth Wave at a Time
“Kyiv Eternal,” by the composer and sound artist Heinali (real name Oleh Shpudeiko), submerges listeners in the sounds of the prewar Ukrainian capital.
Reconstructing Kyiv, One Synth Wave at a Time
“Kyiv Eternal,” by the composer and sound artist Heinali (real name Oleh Shpudeiko), submerges listeners in the sounds of the prewar Ukrainian capital.
‘The Sassoons’: A Family Romance at Global Scale
The Jewish Museum surveys one of the grandest families of the 19th century: a hemisphere-spanning dynasty of merchants, poets, soldiers and socialites (oh, and also...
At the Met Museum, Richard Avedon at Large
“Richard Avedon: Murals” fills just one gallery of the Met, but “fills” is an understatement. These portraits of prominent political and social figures are a...
‘Casablanca’ and the Romance of the Refugee
A showcase of memorabilia at the Neue Galerie spotlights the Central European exiles who crafted Hollywood’s great wartime love story.