Arts, Yesterday
Though the Sackler name was tarnished over Purdue Pharma’s role in the opioid crisis, Arthur Sackler’s should not be, she insisted; a company founder, he died well before the trouble began.
Interactive, Yesterday
Hoy proponemos una forma divertida de sentirte menos bloqueado.
Real Estate, Yesterday
Ms. Gladstone, who ran one of the New York City’s largest contemporary art galleries, died last year. Her friend, the architect Annabelle Selldorf, helped her renovate the home.
Movies, Yesterday
Paintings by Magritte and others were borrowed for “The Phoenician Scheme.” Safeguarding them amid the hot lights and chaos of a film set was challenging.
En español, Yesterday
El papel de la capital española como antiguo centro de un reino marítimo inmenso la ha vinculado eternamente al mar de múltiples maneras.
Arts, June 5
This week in Newly Reviewed, Martha Schwendener covers Aleksandar Duravcevic’s meditations, R.H. Quaytman’s veins of color and Cosey Fanni Tutti’s provocations.
Arts, June 5
In a small but haunting survey at the Met, a celebrated conceptual artist shifts gears, with meteoric results.
Arts, June 5
Looking for something to do in New York? There’s much to celebrate: comedy in and around Union Square, outdoor music in Queens and a garden’s birthday in the Bronx.
Interactive, June 5
The city that brought us automobiles and Motown has seen tough times. But Detroit always rises again.
Arts, June 5
Her show at the American Academy of Arts and Letters highlights the delicate art of refusing to play the game of identity politics.
Arts, June 4
He was the pied piper of a loose community of DIY artists homesteading on New York City’s waterways, which he used as his canvas and stage.
Arts, June 4
Allegorical forest creatures meet ethnographic archives in Rosana Paulino’s art — influential in Brazil, and now on view in New York.
Arts, June 4
Call it the ‘‘rediscovery industrial complex”: Art advisers and dealers are turning to the past to discover tomorrow’s blue-chip stars.
En español, June 4
El retrato oficial, publicado el lunes por la Casa Blanca, muestra a un Trump sombrío sobre un fondo oscuro.
Arts, June 4
The official photograph of the president’s second term has the gloss of his 1980s architecture, but its A.I.-like haze is pure 2025.
Opinion, June 4
As a “punk, queer grandpa,” John Cameron Mitchell thinks so.
Arts, June 4
In his first art exhibition in nearly a decade, the actor and painter draws from the frenetic energy of his youth, and from the empathy of his mother, the photographer Sylvia Plachy.
Travel, June 4
The capital of Spain may not be on the coast, but that doesn’t keep it from celebrating its ties to the sea with museums, fountains, the occasional massive anchor and even the city’s favorite sandwich.
U.S., June 3
The official portrait, released on Monday by the White House, features a somber Mr. Trump against a dark backdrop.
Arts, June 3
“She is one of the masters of playing with materials in our moment,” a curator said of Moyer, who has made glass look like brick and fabric look like rock.
Arts, June 2
A prestigious study program will not welcome students next academic year after a clash between museum officials and young artists who said they were censored.
Arts, June 2
A Trisha Brown company tour recalls a time when Rauschenberg, one of the country’s most influential artists, was changing and being changed by American dance.
Interactive, June 2
Today, a fun way to feel less stuck.
Interactive, June 1
We’d like you to look at one piece of art for 10 minutes, uninterrupted.
En español, June 1
El director ejecutivo del Museo Internacional del Espía de Washington nos cuenta en qué acierta y en qué se equivoca Tom Cruise en la franquicia.
Arts, May 31
Benesse Art Site Naoshima, a sprawling art constellation on three islands, adds a 10th museum by the star architect Tadao Ando that caps the cultural quest of Soichiro Fukutake.
Arts, May 31
The work of the African American quilters Laverne Brackens and Sherry Byrd, who continue the thread of the family tradition, will be on view at the Berkeley Art Museum.
Arts, May 30
Kim Sajet, the director of the Smithsonian museum for more than 12 years, has tried to bring in more contemporary artists.
T Magazine, May 30
The founder of the footwear brand Le Monde Béryl hosted a 100-plus-person gathering at her artist sister’s home in Harlem.
Arts, May 30
Being a spy is like watching paint dry. And they don’t have to be in the best shape. The tooth capsule thing? Real. A former spy tells us what Tom Cruise gets right and wrong in the franchise.
Arts, May 30
The Ceremonial House Ceiling, a map of mythical knowledge, had hung a particular way over the Rockefeller Wing for decades. Then the Kwoma people of Papua New Guinea had their say.
Arts, May 29
An old master of the Great Depression painted a portrait of America as it still may be.
Arts, May 29
Mary Rockefeller Morgan, daughter of Nelson and Michael’s twin, was determined to honor her family of collectors, and Indigenous art.
Times Insider, May 28
The Times is inviting artists from around the world to submit their work for feedback.
Books, May 28
In “Wild Thing,” Sue Prideaux draws on recently discovered source material, delivering an enthralling account of an artist whose life was as inventive as his art.
Arts, May 28
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Michael C. Rockefeller collection from Africa, the Ancient Americas and Oceania reopens with a pantheon of historic art stars.
Arts, May 28
When the video game Bloodborne dropped players into the deep end and ignored their cries for help, it joined a tradition of challenging work that outraged audiences.
Arts, May 27
Koyo Kouoh had spent nearly seven months preparing the art event’s main exhibition before she died this month. Her team will complete the work and open the show in May 2026.
Real Estate, May 27
Neighbors say the in-your-face design of the building made it a target for criticism, leading someone to tag it with a museum-style plaque that commented on New York City’s affordable housing crisis.
Arts, May 26
Chiharu Shiota, a Berlin-based artist, has conjured a multitude of immigrant stories in “Home Less Home,” her largest museum show in the U.S.
Arts, May 26
Cecilia Alemani works on public art for the popular greenway in addition to curating shows in New York and Santa Fe. This is what a few days in her life look like.
Arts, May 26
The ‘Star Wars’ director parted ways with the museum’s top boss and is clearly calling the shots as his Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles approaches completion.
Obituaries, May 25
He turned away from a potential career in the law or international relations to produce abstract paintings, and he headed El Museo del Barrio.
Books, May 25
Madonna, Scorsese, Warhol and “Piss Christ” play roles in Paul Elie’s maybe-too-comprehensive look at how divisive expressions of faith came to the fore.
Arts, May 24
Whether minted on a U.S. coin, captured as a bobblehead or painted in a new Miami mural, the late “Queen of Salsa” continues to draw attention to her musical legacy 100 years after her birth.
En español, May 23
Esta ciudad, grande y sorprendente, está repleta de expresiones artísticas. Estas son las favoritas de nuestro crítico.
Arts, May 23
Vincent Valdez depicts moments from the country’s past and present that many would prefer to forget.
Arts, May 23
Our critic Jason Farago shares what you shouldn’t miss in a city imprinted with seven centuries of cultural history.
Interactive, May 22
The difference between two similar looking paintings can be millions of dollars. Can you spot the most expensive ones from New York’s recent auction week?
Arts, May 22
The Nigerian American artist takes pencil and pastel to monumental scale. Her newest works are her most personal yet, and her most universal.
En español, May 22
El futuro museo, junto a la famosa Casa Azul, estará en una residencia privada adquirida por los padres de Kahlo.
Arts, May 22
The future museum, adjacent to the famed Casa Azul, will be in a private residence acquired by Kahlo’s parents.
Arts, May 22
The rich expatriates Sargent painted in London were dismissed as “dollar princesses.” A new exhibition looks beyond that label to their achievements and inner lives.
Arts, May 22
After mentoring a generation of artists, the seasoned “Diasporican” painter has a career in bloom, with a solo show and a bold dialogue with Bob Thompson.
Books, May 22
“My favorite novel of all time” is an antidote to “Of Mice and Men,” he promises. His new book, “Anima Rising,” is a playful visit to 1911 Vienna.
Style, May 21
A surprise musical performance capped the annual gala at the Whitney Museum of American Art, honoring the artist Amy Sherald.
Arts, May 21
He designed innovative houses and sculptures, but his most visible role in New York City’s cultural life was as an accidental restaurateur, running the venerable Fanelli Cafe.
Arts, May 21
Dries Verhoeven has constructed a replica grocery store for his latest provocative performance.
Arts, May 21
The Danish artists have pushed beyond the gallery and into the outside world, making works designed to serve communities — human and otherwise.
Travel, May 21
Aix-en-Provence, the French city where the artist spent most of his life, is celebrating all things Cézanne this summer with the reopening of his estate and studio.
Arts, May 20
With its enormous wealth, the Middle East has long been viewed by the international art trade as a prime market for expansion.
New York, May 20
The New York Botanical Garden’s new exhibit draws inspiration from Vincent van Gogh for a colorful explosion of 18,000 sunflowers and other plants.
Arts, May 20
The Manhattan district attorney’s office said the objects had been identified as illicit during an investigation of an art dealer suspected of having trafficked in stolen antiquities.
World, May 19
The 300-pound bust was stolen from Père-Lachaise cemetery in 1988 and was found when the police were conducting an unrelated search.
Style, May 19
Clayton Patterson, the street photographer, has thousands of images, video and paraphernalia from the neighborhood’s conflicts and characters. Now he doesn’t know what to do with them.
Arts, May 19
Performing below their low estimates, the auction houses bet on a “flight to quality” but found little interest from bidders on top lots.
Style, May 18
With a new show at the Cleveland Museum, fashion’s favorite artist is back in the conversation.
New York, May 18
A 12-foot bronze statue of an anonymous Black woman has become a lightning rod in a fraught American debate about race, representation and diversity.
Arts, May 16
In a spectacular exhibition at Karma Gallery, the 98-year-old artist makes hardwood sculptures that burst with vitality and variation.
Obituaries, May 16
His style as a poet and artist was informed by his upbringing in Shanghai and his years in Paris. He then joined the Pop-fueled studios of New York.
World, May 16
The bronze sculpture, erected near Ms. Trump’s hometown in eastern Slovenia, was chopped off at the feet and stolen, the police said.
Arts, May 16
Isaac Wright took a vertiginous photograph of the Empire State Building after he climbed to the top of its spire — evidence the police used to arrest him.
Arts, May 16
An exhibition in the Bronx offers community support to Latino artists, undaunted by a hostile climate.
Travel, May 16
The group’s psychedelic sensory playgrounds of light, sound, stars, bubbles, birds and more are expanding around the globe, dazzling millions of visitors a year.
Arts, May 15
Employees say they are concerned by the Trump administration’s efforts to “dismantle mission-essential departments and reshape our arts programming.”
Arts, May 15
At the Museum of Modern Art, a watercolor herbarium from 1919 and 1920 flaunts the literal side, and even the preachiness, of abstraction’s superheroine.
Interactive, May 15
Beneath the emotions of loss and reverence, and with a new pope in place, Rome continues its spiritual, cultural and gastronomic transformation.
Arts, May 15
At the Whitney, her pristine and color-drenched paintings of neighbors and dreamers and a kid on a slide challenge the conventions of portraiture.
Arts, May 15
Nadya Tolokonnikova previews her stamina-testing performance in a mock prison cell at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.
Arts, May 14
Why did the star lot of the spring season, a bronze head by the master sculptor Alberto Giacometti, fail to sell at Sotheby’s on Tuesday?
T Magazine, May 14
A growing genre of work is defined not by its content but by its audience on social media.
En español, May 14
Cris Hassold, quien fue profesora universitaria en Florida durante 50 años, dejó una profunda huella en sus estudiantes favoritos: “pienso en ella casi todos los días”, dijo una.
Style, May 13
The expansive wall art, which has mostly been out on the streets over the last few decades, is returning to its cave-dwelling origins: homes.
T Magazine, May 13
Starting in the 1930s, the three artists behind PaJaMa captured their unconventional relationship in surreal images that still captivate.
Arts, May 13
There was little excited bidding on the art collection of the Riggio family, who built their fortune on the Barnes & Noble bookstore chain — a caution flag for the art market.
Arts, May 12
These bellwether artworks in the spring auctions this week may indicate whether a recovery is likely, after years of declining profits and high rollers.
U.S., May 11
Cris Hassold, a professor at New College of Florida for 50 years, left a mark on her 31 favorite students. “I think about her almost every day,” one said.
Arts, May 11
She had recently been named to oversee next year’s Venice Biennale. She died just days before she was scheduled to announce its theme and title.
Arts, May 10
Guinea-Bissau, where there are virtually no art galleries, no art schools and little government funding for the arts, has just staged its first biennale.
Arts, May 10
For years, Isaac Wright found that scaling bridges and buildings, and making photos on the summits, helped curb his PTSD. Now he has a real career putting himself on the line.
World, May 10
David Geffen and Justin Sun’s unusually public dispute over ownership of a Giacometti sculpture valued at tens of millions of dollars gives a glimpse into a shrouded world.
Arts, May 9
Hailed as a visionary (if a difficult one), he drew inspiration for his multivolume work “The First Kingdom” from no less a model than Homer.
Real Estate, May 9
The couple’s lives are preserved in a SoHo building where for decades they plotted their monumental projects.
Arts, May 9
How two men consumed with Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s classic critique of food and culture found themselves with a checkerboard blanket in a New York park.
Real Estate, May 9
A street artist had to depend on patrons to help him buy a 19th century house and had to depend on himself to restore it.
Metro, November 24
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.
Arts & Leisure, August 10
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.
Weekend, July 24
The museum said it attracted more local visitors during the past year than it did before the pandemic, but only half the international visitors.
Culture, April 11
Uzodinma Iweala, chief executive of the Harlem institution, will leave at the end of 2024 after guiding it through pandemic years and securing funds.
Culture, March 12
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.
Special Sections, December 5
After struggling with the Covid pandemic, the industry is now dealing with inflation, high interest rates and international conflicts.
Special Sections, December 5
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.
Culture, September 24
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.
Book Review, July 3
In her new memoir, “The Light Room,” Kate Zambreno looks back on the unending togetherness of family life during the pandemic.
Culture, May 22
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.
Weekend, May 4
A storm, a pandemic, and Black Puerto Rican history pervade his work at MoMA PS 1, with materials sourced from daily life.
Dining, January 8
Also, Brazilians storm government offices and the Times investigates a 2021 Kabul airstrike.
Culture, January 6
With attendance surging back, the museum wants to offer “a moment of pleasure” — and relieve that Mona Lisa problem.
N Y T Now, December 14
Plus France just beat Morocco to advance to the World Cup finals.
Special Sections, October 20
Projects all over the country include renovations and new wings as institutions continue to bet on bricks and mortar.
Culture, August 29
Though some small galleries are opening or expanding, the mega dealers have closed shop, a blow to an area with a vibrant artistic history.
Obits, August 19
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.
Culture, July 31
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.”
Culture, July 1
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.
Culture, May 5
From “anti-monuments” to ephemeral sand portraits, four art exhibitions encourage viewers to slow down and take stock of our pandemic losses.
Travel, May 5
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.