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Film at Lincoln Center will present a program of films documenting New York City, many from the holdings of the Film-Makers' Cooperative.

Most people assume Canada’s role in the Vietnam War was as a refuge for American draft dodgers. In fact, thousands of Canadian soldiers and diplomats played a peacekeeping role in Southeast Asia between the 1950s and ‘70s.

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When I emerge from an art gallery or a museum, the world around me looks different. Leaving the Metropolitan Museum of Art late one afternoon, the col

A second-floor windowsill provides an unlikely perch for this sculpture from the series “Dwellings” by Charles Simonds, known for his tiny clay constructions…

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"LET US SUPPOSE," WROTE George Kubler, "that the idea of art can be expanded to embrace the whole range of man-made things, including all tools and writing in addition to…

Jules Pelta Feldman on the art of Charles Simonds

IF YOU HAVE EVER taken the stairs at what used to be the Whitney Museum of American Art—Marcel Breuer’s Brutalist masterpiece on New York’s Upper East Side—you have almost certainly encountered the work of Charles Simonds, though you may not have realized it. One of only two pieces in the Whitney’s collection that did not head downtown when the institution moved to the Meatpacking District in 2015 (the other being Nicole Eisenman’s Exploding Whitney Mural, 1995), Simonds’s permanen...

Sotheby's, which is the new owner of the Madison Avenue building, “will proudly act as stewards” of Charles Simonds’s tiny installation