Art and Design

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   40 Years Later, The Return of Halley’s Day-Glo Comet

   With four shows of work from the ’80s traveling the globe, the artist is still seeing what he can get away with.

    By Max Lakin

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   An Uptown Cat Became a Chinese Artist. Then He Returned Home.

   After 15 years in Beijing, Miguel Ángel Payano came back to New York, at ease with Afro-Caribbean, Latino and Asian cultures. What he never expected was a Parkinson’s diagnosis.

    By Siddhartha Mitter

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      Critic’s Pick

      I Was Wrong About Cecily Brown

      

      After panning an artist’s work 23 years ago, our veteran critic had a change of mind following three visits to “Death and the Maid” at the Met.

       By Roberta Smith

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      Critic’s Pick

      In Chinese Photography, Political Anguish Made Physical

      

      In an exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum, conceptual Chinese photographers of the tumultuous ’90s use the human body to document their pain.

       By Arthur Lubow