Kryptos has been in a courtyard at C.I.A. headquarters for almost 30 years. Three of its four passages have been decoded. Will one more clue unlock the last?
Africans shouldn’t have to travel to Western museums to see the artworks looted from their continent.
In the first film from our Sundance 2020 series, meet Betye Saar, who says her weapon is art.
In the first film from our Sundance 2020 series, meet Betye Saar, who says her weapon is art.
A quick pick-me-up (and drop me down!) in the heart of the busy city.
After causing a stir on social media, the unveiling of a restored panel kicks off a year celebrating the late-medieval master Jan van Eyck.
His projects included a quixotic quest to sketch everyone in New York City.
Philosophers said the Holocaust defied representation, that art could not render its horrors. But Ceija Stojka made more than 1,000 incredible images of her ordeal, and the effort to exterminate the Roma.
Spurred by advances in photomechanical reproduction, forgers are increasingly selling unauthorized copies of famous works on the internet, and elsewhere.
Spurred by advances in photomechanical reproduction, forgers are increasingly selling unauthorized copies of famous works on the internet, and elsewhere.
It’s not about empty walls or avoiding your phone — it’s about finding beauty in our surroundings, whatever they may look like.
Ahead of her latest solo show, Huma Bhabha reflects on her towering mixed-media figures, and the strangest object in her studio.
Our guide to new art shows and some that will be closing soon.
“Abortion Is Normal” is the kind of exhibition that energizes supporters and upsets opponents. But it’s exciting for just being a good art show.
The venerable fair may have changed its name, but it has not forsaken its passion for quality.
“Arte del Mar,” an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum, shows that the West Indies were a meeting point of cultures long before the European arrival.
A jumble of memorabilia, storyboards and props, an exhibit illustrates the whirl of influences behind Stanley Kubrick’s groundbreaking 1968 film.
Using video projections, the artist Krzysztof Wodiczko reclaims public spaces for marginalized viewpoints.
The handbag one T editor is using for an organized 2020 — and more.
The works by Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald will make their way to five cities from June 2021 through May 2022, including a stop at the Brooklyn Museum.
To celebrate the latest opening at her namesake gallery, Jessica Silverman hosted an unfussy, flower-filled meal at her San Francisco home.
An Israel Museum exhibition explores the complicated relationship between the hieroglyphs of antiquity and emoji, the lingua franca of the digital age.
When a piece speaks to Dani Levinas, he listens. Many of the works that touch him have their roots in Latin America.
‘Souls Grown Diaspora,’ a movement’s northern reach; Frederick Weston’s ‘Blue Bedroom Blues’; Nicholas Krushenick’s collages; Eric Brown’s ‘Longhand’ paintings.
The United States and Britain will commemorate 400 years since the Pilgrim ship made its crossing. The events are more politically charged on one side of the Atlantic than the other.
Museum curators and mindful millennials seek visions of a “clean,” sustainable future. In Philadelphia, designers offer ideas to provoke.
Seriously. “Open conservation,” or art-restoration labs set up to be viewed, and sometimes, interacted with, are increasingly a part of museums’ offerings.
Newnan, Georgia, decidió utilizar el arte para ayudar a la comunidad a celebrar la diversidad y abrazar el cambio. No todos estaban listos para lo que vieron.
Newnan, Ga., decided to use art to help the community celebrate diversity and embrace change. Not everyone was ready for what they saw.
Gardeners found the painting in the wall of the Italian museum it was stolen from almost 23 years ago.
Our critic explores Yuichiro Ukai’s pen-and-marker dinosaurs and samurai, ceramic animals from the Peruvian Amazon and the photography of Vivian Maier.
Gelsey Bell, a wide-ranging singer, composer and scholar, is leading listening sessions of works from the MoMA sound archives.
The speech by President Jair Bolsonaro’s culture secretary was the latest flash point in a debate over art and freedom of expression under the conservative government.
An art gallery in China’s capital provides a lens into the city’s quietly present gay community.
Our guide to new art shows and some that will be closing soon.
The Mexican artist Teresa Margolles makes unflinching art about violent death and its aftermath. Her newest photographs and installations are now in New York City.
Andrew LaMar Hopkins celebrates the rich contributions of 19th-Century New Orleans in his folk art style (and drag).
A store designed by the director of ‘Call Me by Your Name’ and more from the editors of T Magazine.
In this case, the art-lovers own storage and shipping centers that meet all their needs to rotate, hang and pack away their pieces.
Nicky Nodjoumi’s dreamy serial paintings; Albert Oehlen’s “mirror paintings”; Clarity Haynes portraits of breasts; Kim Tschang-Yeul’s abstract brand of Pop Art
Despite the perils, Afghan artists have consistently portrayed their country and its many facets.
Some thieves knew how to bypass the alarm system and steal the security tapes. Others snatched jewels and ran.
The artist on the Oklahoma roots of his new show, that $52.5 million painting, and meeting Walt Disney.
She used clay to reconstruct the faces of the missing and murdered, in the hope of helping police departments learn who they were.
Favorites like Reggie Wilson and Steve Reich will also appear at the arts center in Fort Greene.
A new series of projects by international artists will be shown in five cities across the world.
A four-story, 40,000-square-foot space will bring the photography center’s exhibition and education spaces together under the same roof.
Photography was Andy Warhol’s secret weapon — the architecture of his oeuvre. A new show highlights many of his rarely seen images.
A new exhibition in San Francisco makes art out of the Patagonia vest, the former prime minister of England and … Salesforce?
Despite the Polish government’s efforts to recover cultural objects lost during World War II, researchers say its museums hold stolen items left behind by the Nazis.
He didn’t publish his first novel (which he illustrated himself) until he was 46. But his impact, as both a writer and an artist, has lasted.
New legislation to combat money laundering and terrorism financing will require dealers and auctioneers to establish the identity of buyers and sellers.
The curator of the High Line will be the first Italian woman to organize the show.
Jeremy O. Harris will combine disciplines in a summer festival.
A Philadelphia Museum of Art boss who quietly resigned now directs the Erie Art Museum, where a woman also objected to his conduct.
Peter McGough, of the art duo McDermott & McGough, wrote a memoir on his adventures as a queer artist who drove a Model T.
Peter McGough, of the art duo McDermott & McGough, wrote a memoir on his adventures as a queer artist who drove a Model T.
Our guide to new art shows and some that will be closing soon.
The maverick artist, the subject of two exhibitions, is known for his grueling street performances, but his real enchantment lies in something weirder.
Suzanne Jackson’s non-canvas compositions; Mike Kelley’s ode to painting.
The photographer Pieter Hugo, who has captured scenes from Nigeria to Mexico, takes T inside his studio.
What to buy, see and try this week, from the editors of T Magazine.
The designer Rodolphe Parente is a master of mixing unexpected textures and eras, as his latest project proves.
A new director wants to reshape a leading Warsaw art space to show conservative works and challenge left-wing positions.
Known as Daddy-O, he created roadside, streetside and top-of-the-roof attractions in Texas and elsewhere.
His visual style derives from a corner of life that we never even knew had a style — that is, the classroom.
The poverty and chaos of Kinshasa drive an art scene that’s vivid, unrelenting and genuinely dangerous.
President Trump’s repeated threats to destroy Iran’s treasures of art and architecture make the United States seem as debased as ISIS or the Taliban.
Aerobanquets RMX lets participants eat while exploring an interactive world at the James Beard House.
The mesmerizing, frustrating world of Félix Vallotton, now at the Metropolitan Museum.
Between the 1960s and the 1980s, Louis Silverstein, a bold art director for The Times, introduced new graphic design elements that continue to shape the appearance of the paper today.
Through his hybrid works and teaching, he helped build the Los Angeles art scene, mentoring a who’s who of contemporary artists.
Mr. Oliver’s album covers for the 4AD label were a fitting complement to music by influential alternative bands like Pixies and the Breeders.
In a wide-ranging career, he designed cars, restaurants and, most notably, the otherworldly look of science-fiction movies.
With her first museum retrospective, the artist (and fashion muse) talks about confecting fanciful works with a core of steel.
Our guide to new art shows and some that will be closing soon.
A New York appeals court clears the way for some of a former magazine employee’s claims of retaliation against her in a #MeToo case.
In bronze, silver or aluminum, a statue is an idea made solid. Two inventive shows in New York reaffirm the power of art in three dimensions.
A baroness’s watercolors; Jasper Johns’s crosshatches; a survey of abstract photography; and Alice Miceli’s radiographs of Chernobyl.
Residents, staff and donors hope the Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College will provide a cross section of contemporary art as layered as Sarasota itself.
He deftly manipulated electronic images to produce otherworldly, sometimes jarring visions. He also founded, with his wife, a landmark performance space.
Collectors with a selection of crafts bought on instinct, intuition and, yes, impulse. They might not buy the shirt off an artist’s back, but they have come close.
Dia al-Azzawi, a Baghdad-born artist, weaves antiquity, poetry and messages of resistance at MoMA PS1.
Greta Gerwig onstage, Jack London on film, Broadway revivals and an opera celebrating the 19th Amendment are just a few of their choices.
“Your way of seeing things, including yourself, seems not wholly true or right or your own, and is in dire need of a refresh,” writes one of our advice columnists.
Archaeologists unearthed the remains of a 4,000-year-old “Book of Two Ways” — a guide to the Egyptian underworld, and the earliest copy of the first illustrated book.