Arthur Lubow

New York

Contributing Writer at The New York Times

Following culture for magazines, writing a book on Diane Arbus, listening to tree frogs in CT

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Maurice Sendak's Art Collection to Be Auctioned

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Arthur Lubow

A pre-eminent writer and illustrator of children's books, Maurice Sendak, who died in 2012 at 83, was also a passionate art collector. The two pursuits were intertwined. "I'm not a collector who collects just for collecting," he said in 1984.
David Hockney Talks Aging, iPhone Art, & His Biggest Exhibition Yet

2 months ago | wmagazine.com | Arthur Lubow

David Hockney in Normandy. An unrepentant lifetime smoker, David Hockney, 87, wheezes from respiratory difficulties. He sleeps during some of the day and is watched over by round-the-clock nurses. His deafness, the first signs of which he noticed in 1979, has worsened considerably, so that even with hearing aids he relies on lipreading to facilitate conversation.
Wrestling With a Harrowing Legacy

Mar 6, 2025 | nytimes.com | Arthur Lubow

Tyler Mitchell was only 23 in 2018, when his portrait of Beyoncé became the first Vogue cover by a Black photographer. Already established, he was suddenly a celebrity. But as was true for others before him, notably Richard Avedon, precocious success in fashion left him hungry for artistic recognition.
In Warsaw, a Major New Museum Opens at a Cultural Turning Point

Feb 26, 2025 | wmagazine.com | Arthur Lubow

MSN Warsaw photographed by Marcin CzechowiczArt is hot in Warsaw—blazing even more at the moment because artists know that very soon, an icy reactionary wind could blow it all away. The long-awaited Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, or MSN (its Polish initials), opened on February 21, with cutting-edge exhibitions on political engagement, ecological catastrophe, commodity capitalism, and the celebration (and violation of) the human body.
From Crime Scenes to Hollywood Stars, Weegee Snapped Them All

Feb 6, 2025 | nytimes.com | Arthur Lubow

How did the photographer Arthur Fellig, better known as Weegee, go from hard-boiled shots of New York murder victims, criminal arrests and tenement fires during the 1930s and '40s - classic images that have never been equaled - to the cheesy distorted portraits of Hollywood celebrities that engaged him for the last 20 years of his life?
Manuela Wirth on Transforming Hauser & Wirth Into So Much More Than a Gallery

Dec 4, 2024 | wmagazine.com | Arthur Lubow |Venetia Scott |Ondine Azoulay

Manuela Wirth wears a Yohji Yamamoto dress; Maison Margiela shoes; her own jewelry. The artwork in the background is by Martin Creed. Hauser & Wirth, the gallery that you and your husband, Iwan Wirth, jointly run, is a global juggernaut. You grew up in the Swiss countryside. Did you inherit a passion for artists from your mother, Ursula Hauser, who collected art while working full-time after the premature death of your father? I was born a collector.
In São Paulo, Hotels Bring a Burgeoning Art Scene to the Forefront

Nov 28, 2024 | wmagazine.com | Arthur Lubow

Courtesy of Rosewood HotelsCidade Matarazzo, or Matarazzo City, is a complex of low-rise Italianate buildings surrounded by glass-and-steel skyscrapers in the heart of São Paulo. For 50 years, it housed the city’s main maternity hospital, ushering 550,000 Paulistas into the world. But in 1993, the hospital shut down and the buildings were abandoned.
In New York, a ravishing show of Aboriginal art

Oct 15, 2024 | afr.com | Arthur Lubow

New York | The Aboriginal art of northeast Arnhem Land in Australia is both ancient and recent. For thousands of years, the Yolngu people of this remote, culturally rich region have been painting in the sand and on their bodies, rendering features of the landscape and legends of their ancestors into sacred designs. But those drawings were ephemeral.
What Can Be Shown, What Must Be Hidden

Oct 9, 2024 | nytimes.com | Arthur Lubow

The Aboriginal art of northeast Arnhem Land in Australia is both ancient and recent. For thousands of years, the Yolngu people of this remote, culturally rich region have been painting in the sand and on their bodies, rendering features of the landscape and legends of their ancestors into sacred designs. But those drawings were ephemeral.
Artist Jamian Juliano-Villani Wants to Keep You Guessing

Sep 19, 2024 | wmagazine.com | Arthur Lubow |Jeff Henrikson

Artist and gallerist Jamian Juliano-Villani at her studio in Brooklyn. Miu Miu top; Balenciaga pantaboots; her own glasses and jewelry (all throughout). Jamian Juliano-Villani makes unlikely mash-ups. In her paintings, she juxtaposes weirdly nostalgic images that she has voraciously collected from old books, the Internet, her constantly playing television—wherever she finds them.

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