
Helen Thorington, Who Brought Sonic Art to the Airwaves, Dies at 94
A pioneer in radio art and, later internet art, she created a blend of synthesizer compositions and found sounds that opened new artistic terrain.
A pioneer in radio art and, later internet art, she created a blend of synthesizer compositions and found sounds that opened new artistic terrain.
The Brooklyn Museum invited the Australian comedian to help organize a show on Picasso’s troubling life and artistic lens. The reaction was strong.
His sliver of an artwork, “Point of Infinity,” marks the start of the city’s Treasure Island Art Program.
In new shows in Chicago and London, the artist uses ghostly erasure lines to look at ideas about race — forcing us to confront the images before they slip away.
Our critic says “Chosen Memories” at MoMA is one of the most stirring recent collection shows. The theme of change and instability is a binding thread.
The artist wanted to photograph orchids but ended up making “Broken Spectre,” a film about the destruction of the rainforest — his most powerful work yet.
Over nearly two decades, the British artist has painted the same shop interiors again and again. A new exhibition in England tracks how his approach has changed.
This Croatian port city is fueled by long seafood lunches, ancient traditions and wine-filled evenings.
Anton Corbijn’s documentary shares anecdotes from the British design studio that devised some of the most famous album covers of the 1970s.
The artist, known for the influential Project Row Houses in Houston, discusses music, basketball and art’s ability to improve lives.
An accomplished painter (and memoirist) in her own right, she was long his lover until she did what no other mistress of his had ever done: She walked out.
A 3,300-year-old palace mural offers an exquisitely detailed view of several bird species, and presents an artistic mystery.
The artists Beverly Barkat and Germane Barnes play with discarded plastic — including bottles, cups and printer cartridges — to explore the possibilities of reinventing waste.
The artist was never concerned about copyright. He cared more about the right to copy, as an artistic method and a design for living.
In often fantastical paintings, drawings and immersive installations, he explored the privations and indignities of the Soviet life he would flee, landing on Long Island.
Bees, seeds, metal and stone all made appearances for the event that makes the city a design hub.
Want to see new art in the city? Check out Joan Brown, Giorgio de Chirico and the making of Art-Rite magazine in Chelsea, and Rina Banerjee on the Lower East Side.
The Australian comedian turns curator in a show about Picasso’s complicated legacy. But it’s women artists the exhibition really shortchanges.
The art collective KIRAC was embroiled in court battles over a film about the author’s sex life. Is the dispute a performance? A marketing stunt? Or a genuine cultural feud?
The photographer’s studio was destroyed during the civil war in the Central African Republic. But he built a new life in Paris, and his works are now in the collections of the world’s great museums.
A professor decorated a sidewalk in Georgetown with 10-foot sculptures of Bumblebee and Optimus Prime. The well-heeled locals were not pleased.
The filmmaker Anton Corbijn’s documentary “Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)” tells the tale of the London design company devoted to crafting the perfect LP sleeve.
Plus: coffee-inspired jewelry, an exhibit of natural ceramics and more recommendations from T Magazine.
A survey of the Brant Foundation’s Warhols can’t fail to please — but maybe because we’ve learned to stifle the artist’s true radicalism.
Locals know the best spots are hiding in plain sight in the City of Angels.
The art dealer, Daniel Elie Bouaziz, 69, was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for laundering money made selling counterfeit art.
In her first museum show in the United States, this Finnish artist uses her own XL body to bring a new emotional depth to the genre of setup photography.
To learn about a vanished painting by the famous Dutch artist, a team of Times journalists combed through thousands of pages of documents — and knocked on some doors.
After a painting by the Dutch artist sold at auction, a movie producer claimed to be the owner. It later vanished from sight, with a trail leading to Caribbean tax havens and a jailed Chinese billionaire.
“To somebody else, it’s just some wood glued together,” Freeman Vines, 80, said. “To me, it’s something else.”
Dozens of Sudanese artists and curators have fled their studios and galleries in the capital, jeopardizing thousands of artworks and imperiling an art scene central to the 2019 revolution.
With a retrospective in Philadelphia, the artist is still seeking to capture a mysterious moment with a stranger.
Darren Bader is looking to cap a two-decade artistic career by selling something valuable. Not the witty and poetic sculpture he’s known for, but his own name.
Summer is just around the corner. We’ll help you navigate all the city has to offer — with some help from New York-based experts.
The famous poet and his artist friend wanted to publish “The Sweet and Sour Animal Book” in 1936. But there were no takers. A Cleveland exhibition makes up for the lost time.
The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam becomes a somewhat flimsy case study for fine-art diversity and inclusion conversations in this documentary.
With a show in Manhattan, he says he inherited from his Indigenous forebears “inventive consciousness.”
The violence of his era can be found in his serene masterpieces — if you know where to look.
His career as a musician and a painter over six decades ended abruptly when he was convicted of sexually abusing teenage girls.
At Gagosian, Marian Anderson, Marilyn Monroe, Dovima and a cast of showstoppers.
Inside a copyright case that dissenting justices say could stifle creativity.
The couple behind Entheon, an exhibition space on the grounds of a nonprofit organization, hopes to attract lovers of art and consciousness-altering experiences.
Amid high inflation and low inventory, the art market correction appears to have landed. If it wasn’t a trophy, it probably struggled to command a high price.
Richard Prince, an artist who appropriates images like Andy Warhol did, is being sued. But experts said the Supreme Court’s Warhol ruling may have little impact on the case.
The Belgian city doesn’t have a huge dealer base, nor is it home to as many artists as other major centers. But it has a tradition of art buying that goes back to Rubens and Breughel.
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.
Drawing, music and writing can elevate your mood. Here are some easy ways to welcome them into your life.
The Nigerian artist inaugurates Zwirner’s new Los Angeles gallery with paintings that showcase her artistic vernacular.
The New Art Dealers Alliance offers the chance to scout for treasures from Vancouver to Tokyo without actually leaving Manhattan.
The Supreme Court decision over Andy Warhol’s use of Lynn Goldsmith’s Prince photograph was decided on the narrow grounds of a licensing issue. But it could still have a chilling effect.
The “functional art” of Craig Kaviar, including transforming guns into garden tools, is part of a revival of the ancient craft.
Also, Meta publicly released its latest A.I. technology.
Exciting work from emerging artists exploring environmental change, and proof that much of the most innovative work of the past half century has been by women.
Talking with Touria El Glaoui, its founder, about making a real difference in the careers of African artists.
The Japanese artist’s new exhibition in Manhattan includes undulating pumpkins and graphic paintings, but her latest Infinity Mirror Room is the star of the show.
A philanthropist spent $180 million to transform a relic of Gowanus’s industrial past into Powerhouse Arts, equipped to produce the art of the future.
Recent imaging and restoration of Pablo Picasso’s “Le Moulin de la Galette” revealed a dog that had been painted over.
The Tuesday sales found stars in Magritte and Klimt, but the path for the art market is uncertain. Bidding is stingier than in the gonzo days of yesteryear.
New generations of women painters are challenging centuries of art history with their nuanced, empathetic renderings of bare-chested bodies.
Contemporary art brought in nearly $99 million. Low estimates for younger artists propelled prices, while Simone Leigh, a star of the Biennale, reached a benchmark $2.7 million.
Bisa Butler’s new show translates both photographs of Black figures and hip-hop lyrics into intricate textile art.
In his new video installation, the artist known for maximalist works like “The Cremaster Cycle” returns to the football fields of his childhood.
Nearly 80 years ago, Milton Esterow began a career at The New York Times that would forever change art and culture reporting. At 94, he’s still churning out articles.
There were few fireworks at the sale of paintings from Condé Nast’s former chairman. Next week’s sales will test whether the ‘crazy money’ of the past has disappeared.
Important lessons absorbed from cultural upheavals have translated into a more thoughtful fair around issues of representation.
A deluge of art arrives in Manhattan this week, with Frieze, NADA and satellite exhibitions spread around the city.
Nearly 100 exhibitors fill the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan with furniture, jewelry, art and antiquities spanning millenniums.
A small, exquisite exhibition at the Guggenheim shows how the City of Light transformed the 19-year-old Spanish artist. One painting says it all.
A revelatory show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art reunites 24 paintings of cypresses and unchains them from their somber associations.
In Arlington, Va., Margaret Bakke has made the exhibition space in her driveway a celebration of creativity.
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.