For decades, he tended a SoHo loft filled with dirt, made by the conceptual artist Walter De Maria. People made pilgrimages to see it — and Mr. Dilworth, its magnetic steward.
Two groundbreaking exhibitions in Chicago explore the shift in portrayals of same-sex attraction. They are being staged at a fraught moment.
Believing that the art form had to move from religious to secular settings, he designed installations in airports, corporate buildings, a country club and a marketplace.
Since the 1970s, the Rencontres d’Arles has been the place to debut the art form’s latest developments. This year’s edition had a more retro feel.
Artists from different cultural traditions adapted an ancient tale to explore how to respond to betrayal and exploitation.
He spent a lifetime patiently excavating the problems and possibilities of the painted surface — in terms of color, texture, process and space.
Shamim Momin, who started her curatorial career at the Whitney Museum of American Art, returns to New York to take the helm of the Bronx Museum of the Arts.
In his new show, the artist, known for pushing the limits of acceptable behavior in his performance art, carefully, even timidly explores what it means to make transgressive art today.
A rich exhibition of works on paper at the Drawing Center in SoHo showcases the paradox at the heart of Delaney’s work.
The Museum of Arts and Design’s ceramics collection inspires a self-described pottery nerd.
Over 30 years, Blum Gallery was a powerhouse for Los Angeles and Japanese artists. But rising costs and lower sales in the art market forced a reckoning.
The embroidered work, depicting the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, is a loan from France. For the first time, it will be on exhibit in London.
The four-story modern house in Fort Greene, which the artist had built two decades ago, is asking $6.5 million.
La artista Emma Webster se emocionó cuando creyó que la estrella del pop quería comprar una de sus obras. Pero resultó siendo un impostor y tuvo que pedir ayuda al FBI.
A breakout moment for Stephanie Comilang, a Filipino-Canadian filmmaker, who finds a poetry beneath the surface of migration and A.I. that transcends borders.
After 20 years in Los Angeles, an actor moved home to Birmingham to be close to his ailing mother.
In a newly translated biography, Maurizio Serra pierces the self-mythologizing of the acclaimed writer Curzio Malaparte, who was a seductive mouthpiece for a violent ideology.
We’d like you to look at one piece of art for 10 minutes, uninterrupted.
Celebrate the Fourth of July with an address on the state of the hot dog, a chance to make ice cream the old-fashioned way and a film that offers up a peculiar slice of Americana.
The Frick’s first post-renovation show unites three Vermeer masterpieces that explore letter-writing and (maybe) love affairs.
For his latest exhibition, the artist used doppelgängers to investigate how art, and people, are made.
Viraj Khanna’s new exhibition at Rajiv Menon Contemporary in Los Angeles offers a loving, satirical look at the spectacle of the big Indian wedding.
The pioneering self-portrait artist discusses working alone, finding her doppelgängers and selling her first prints for less than $50.
A member of the German collective Zero Group, he hammered thousands of nails — into columns, chairs, canvases — expressing the power of repetition to bring about complexity.
Jordan Roth owned five Broadway theaters and produced a string of hits. Now he’s pivoting to performance.
The artist Emma Webster was excited when it appeared the pop star wanted to buy one of her artworks. But it was an impostor and she has asked the F.B.I. for help.
En el SculptureCenter de Queens, en Nueva York, la exposición “Amuletos” de Luana Vitra atrae por su belleza. Luego revela el lado trágico de la minería.
The museum invited the public for a preview of its new David Geffen Galleries spanning Wilshire Boulevard — before the art moves in next year.
The encouraging kicks of a star teacher (James Jarvaise) and his star pupil (Henry Taylor) are on view at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles.
Zoe Elghanayan, a principal and senior vice president at her family’s real estate company, TF Cornerstone, has added art curator to her job description.
Architects are being asked to submit proposals for a new entrance for the world’s most visited museum — and to create a new exhibition space for the Mona Lisa.
At SculptureCenter in Queens, Luana Vitra’s show “Amulets” draws you in with its beauty. Then it drives home the tragic underpinnings of mining.
El daño causado a una pintura centenaria en el museo italiano fue solo uno de los muchos incidentes turísticos que han generado indignación en el continente.
Michael Gordon’s site-specific “The Forest of Metal Objects” surrounds precious art and architecture with the music of chains and flower pots.
In Istanbul, a center of culture, commerce and power for more than 2,000 years, the past never feels distant. Yet contemporary culture thrives here.
In the face of several high-stakes challenges, Syed’s debut U.S. show opened at the Newark Museum and showed how beauty can deceive across two continents.
Kunié Sugiura’s first American retrospective, at SFMOMA, follows a long career full of experimentation.
The damage to a centuries-old painting in the Italian museum was just one of many tourist incidents raising ire on the continent.
Perched above the Mediterranean on the Cote d’Azur, medieval Hyères was once home to a who’s who of Modernists, and inspires return visits.
The advent of A.I. has shocked me into questioning my relationship with art. Will humans still be able to draw for a living?
Two massive works were heisted from a warehouse, then found a week later in a trailer, the authorities said.
His bronze works — smooth-skinned orbs slashed to reveal complex cores — are in public places around the world, including outside the U.N. headquarters and in Vatican City.
Our critics pick 11 outstanding exhibitions — many still on view this summer —and tour the renewed Frick Collection and the Met’s Michael C. Rockefeller Wing.
A 9,400-pound granite frieze was commissioned for The New York Times in 1930 and rests in its third home.
At Lincoln Center, the Toronto-based theater company Why Not strives to balance the old and new in its production of the Sanskrit epic.
At this year’s edition of Art Basel, European arts leaders worried about tariffs, whether to loan their art and if they needed to re-evaluate their relationships with American institutions.
Starting her career at 48, she bent a new art form to challenge the conventions of studio photography.
An exhibition in Boston celebrates the little known Roulins of Arles, a family that tempered the artist’s depressions and sat for indelible portraits.
The Swiss edition of Art Basel was once a must-attend art world event. Now it faces formidable challenges — including from its own Paris offshoot.
Lauder, who died last week, was an executive, a philanthropist and an art collector. He was also a devoted advocate for New York City.
In his largest ever American institutional show, at the Carnegie Museum of Art, the nonagenarian painter is an unparalleled master of black.
Vinieron. Se sentaron. Se fueron.
A couple visiting the Palazzo Maffei museum were posing for photos pretending to sit on Nicola Bolla’s “Van Gogh” chair, when the man accidentally sat down on the artwork, smashing it.
They came. They sat. They left.
Visitors were left stranded outside in Paris on Monday after a monthly union meeting led to a wildcat strike over workplace conditions and crowding.
Thousands of people gathered on the High Line on Saturday for Pigeon Fest, inspired by an artist’s sculpture and an appreciation for the city’s most resilient birds.
Seeking adult fans with money to spend, companies like Mattel and Lego are working with artists to make exclusive — and expensive — versions of their products.
He was best known for his success in business, notably the international beauty company he built with his mother, Estée Lauder. But he was also an influential art patron.
His stick-figure sculptures conveyed a surprising depth of emotion, hinting at the threat of imbalance. He also produced more than 30 large-scale commissions.
The men were sentenced to two to four years for their roles in the 2019 theft of an 18-carat artwork at Winston Churchill’s ancestral home.
Long a center of artistic development for New Yorkers big and small, the League celebrates its sesquicentenary this year with a dream-themed ball.
Andy Goldsworthy, the British land artist, said he may never make a work like “Hanging Stones” again.
A new documentary explores the life and work of Mierle Laderman Ukeles, who compared the indignities suffered by women to those endured by sanitation workers, forced to clean up messes they didn’t make.
As early as the 1970s, she demonstrated that mass media was fair game as artistic material, and that its power could be turned against itself.
The lifestyle brand brought artists, models and performers together at a downtown Manhattan event that included creating art on the spot.
A noted art collector as well as a designer, he brought a personal, history-minded approach to his work around Boston and on college campuses.
Each age has its own way of drawing the arc of a human life. Ours is concerned with its unpredictability.
Korean officials discovered the painting in the Smart Museum’s collection at the University of Chicago. It was stolen from a temple nearly 35 years ago.
A longtime vendor in Manhattan’s Chinatown is finding it harder to make a living as people shun his intricate crafts, haggle over cheap knickknacks and shift their spending online.
After our series on how artists have been affected by loss, we asked readers what helped them when they experienced it. These are 15 of their answers.
The museum said it attracted more local visitors during the past year than it did before the pandemic, but only half the international visitors.
Uzodinma Iweala, chief executive of the Harlem institution, will leave at the end of 2024 after guiding it through pandemic years and securing funds.
Covid brought live performance to a halt. Now the audience for pop concerts and sporting events has roared back, while attendance on Broadway and at some major museums is still down.
After struggling with the Covid pandemic, the industry is now dealing with inflation, high interest rates and international conflicts.
Art fairs managed to survive the downturn brought about by the Covid pandemic and are on the rise again — a trend expected to continue in the coming year.
Joshua Frankel, an artist whose grandfather worked at the James Farley Post Office, has deep roots at the site of his new video project for Art at Amtrak.
In her new memoir, “The Light Room,” Kate Zambreno looks back on the unending togetherness of family life during the pandemic.
Don’t be fooled by its generic title. Lesley Lokko’s “Laboratory of the Future” is the most ambitious and pointedly political Venice Architecture Biennale in years.
A storm, a pandemic, and Black Puerto Rican history pervade his work at MoMA PS 1, with materials sourced from daily life.
Also, Brazilians storm government offices and the Times investigates a 2021 Kabul airstrike.
With attendance surging back, the museum wants to offer “a moment of pleasure” — and relieve that Mona Lisa problem.
Plus France just beat Morocco to advance to the World Cup finals.
Projects all over the country include renovations and new wings as institutions continue to bet on bricks and mortar.
Though some small galleries are opening or expanding, the mega dealers have closed shop, a blow to an area with a vibrant artistic history.
A Russian-born painter, he created a mural of the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev smooching the East German leader Erich Honecker — and with it a tourist attraction.
After a lengthy recovery, the artist comes back with the most vigorous work he’s made: “It took me a really long time to understand what had happened to me.”
The prices — $36.9 million for Monet paintings, and $52.8 million for a Francis Bacon — show that even as Britain’s share of the global art market has decreased, it’s an important player.
From “anti-monuments” to ephemeral sand portraits, four art exhibitions encourage viewers to slow down and take stock of our pandemic losses.
Broadway enthusiasts, art aficionados and food lovers will find new offerings in and around Times Square and in neighborhoods below 42nd Street, heralding the promise of a vibrant recovery.