
Thaddeus Mosley Shapes Universes in Wood
In a spectacular exhibition at Karma Gallery, the 98-year-old artist makes hardwood sculptures that burst with vitality and variation.
In a spectacular exhibition at Karma Gallery, the 98-year-old artist makes hardwood sculptures that burst with vitality and variation.
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.
The bronze sculpture, erected near Ms. Trump’s hometown in eastern Slovenia, was chopped off at the feet and stolen, the police said.
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.
An exhibition in the Bronx offers community support to Latino artists, undaunted by a hostile climate.
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.
Employees say they are concerned by the Trump administration’s efforts to “dismantle mission-essential departments and reshape our arts programming.”
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.
Beneath the emotions of loss and reverence, and with a new pope in place, Rome continues its spiritual, cultural and gastronomic transformation.
At the Whitney, her pristine and color-drenched paintings of neighbors and dreamers and a kid on a slide challenge the conventions of portraiture.
Nadya Tolokonnikova previews her stamina-testing performance in a mock prison cell at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.
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?
A growing genre of work is defined not by its content but by its audience on social media.
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.
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.
Starting in the 1930s, the three artists behind PaJaMa captured their unconventional relationship in surreal images that still captivate.
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.
These bellwether artworks in the spring auctions this week may indicate whether a recovery is likely, after years of declining profits and high rollers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The couple’s lives are preserved in a SoHo building where for decades they plotted their monumental projects.
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.
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.
Heritage meets gumption at the Costume Institute’s big spring exhibition, where pathbreaking pieces join anonymous garments to build a moving history.
With Frieze Week comes an explosion of art, from the behemoth TEFAF to Esther (the newest), and the Other, which boasts of affordability.
The art fair has completed its transition from boutique outlier to art world institution.
Our critic samples booths from 25 countries and picks her seven favorites, including Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, London and Seoul — and two nonprofits.
A critic’s pick of galleries from Africa and the Caribbean offer exciting and haunting work.
The show that started as a messy upstart sibling to the traditional fairs has grown up a bit, though it’s still packed with zany charms.
An expert in the lustrous decorative glass technique known as verre églomisé, Miriam Ellner shows off her talents in a new book.
The London institution, which turns 25 this week, encouraged its peers to look beyond the West. But its greatest impact was to remake the art museum into a kind of theme park.
About 10 years ago, Amanda Precourt turned her attention to buying art. She now sponsors shows and is opening an exhibition space in an old cookie factory.
Security for art and attendees are among the roles that are crucial to the success of the fair.
“I started exploring it as a kind of landscape,” the Lebanese-born designer Jessy Slim said of the ravaged surfaces of her legume creations.
Paul Klee’s “Angelus Novus,” which inspired Walter Benjamin, Laurie Anderson and Wim Wenders, will go on show to commemorate the 80th anniversary of World War II’s end.
At 87, the abstract artist Robert Mangold will exhibit 19 recent paintings and works, including one of his largest in decades.
Known for their outsized and revolutionary art projects, the couple’s work is seen again in Florida, New York and Germany.
A painting of the monarch in the regalia of the crowning ceremony is a royal tradition.
Four curators at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art reveal how they’re filling the new galleries.
The painter will be wearing a bespoke dress, but it is what the public won’t see that makes her the most proud.
Senior officials announced their resignations after the Trump administration withdrew grants from arts organizations around the country.
Artists Space, a downtown home for experimental art, is a consistent presence in a changing landscape.
Jean-Claude Silbermann joined André Breton’s acolytes at 18. Now 90, he’s showing paintings at Independent, the art fair, and says Surrealism is “an attitude toward the world.”
We’d like you to look at one piece of art for 10 minutes, uninterrupted.
The art fair returns to the Shed this month with more than 65 contemporary art galleries and the acclaimed Focus section curated by Lumi Tan.
The endowment told arts organizations that it was withdrawing or canceling current grants just hours after President Trump proposed eliminating the agency in the next fiscal year.
In an East Village gallery, K Allado-McDowell has created an audiovisual tribute to species we have lost as a rehearsal for a proposed physical monument.
Though the lamps fell out of fashion by the 1930s, they recently have seen a surge in appeal, showing up in home décor, and even tattoos.
The Netflix show “Adolescence” asks audiences to be OK with slower moments and small talk. Is that possible in 2025?
Do Ho Suh, whose major survey exhibition in London opens this week, discusses the power of architecture and finding motivation from mistakes.
This week in Newly Reviewed, Holland Cotter covers Sheyla Baykal’s downtown stars, a group show from a radical feminist art collective and Young Joon Kwak’s quieter side.
The deal would bring seven art fairs under a new private company founded by the entertainment mogul Ari Emanuel, former chief executive of Frieze’s owner, Endeavor.
Looking for something to do in New York? Get help from Chloe Troast and her friends, keep “Brat” summer going with Charli XCX, or see Alexei Ratmansky’s take on “Paquita.”
“Sargent and Paris” at the Met shows how a young John Singer Sargent found his footing — and highlights a trans-Atlantic succès de scandale.
In his music, the songwriter cut to the emotional quick. A new book of his drawings, many never seen before, reveals he did the same in thousands of pieces.
There are many ways to lose an eye. Christina Leitzel wants people to know that there are also many ways to gain a new one.
A quinceañera thrown by artists reimagined the city’s Y2K era.
As Salman Toor’s work has become more politically conflicted and emotionally raw, he finds himself wondering, “What am I doing here in America?”
The artist Iké Udé understands the power of rejecting labels.
In bronze, he glorified figures like Peter the Great and Vladimir Putin, often to the public’s distaste. Some works, like a giant Columbus and a 9/11 memorial, were reviled.
We explain how a few big players wield enormous influence in the art world.
Hauser & Wirth artists have major exhibitions everywhere you look, as a new analysis shows the rising influence of powerful art galleries on the city’s top museums.
Bright colors and florals abound at the New York Botanical Garden’s annual orchid show.
Rosa Barba’s films, sculptures and performances start with movies and the machines that make them. They end up in the realm of exuberant effects.
Jessica Goldman Srebnick, the museum’s curator and the daughter of its creator, Tony Goldman, discussed her role and her vision for the neighborhood’s artistic future.
A new exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art features works by artists who explore environmental issues, grief and resilience.
Storm King, Dia Beacon and the Aldrich have embarked on extensive renovations of their outdoor spaces to improve visitors’ experiences.
A new exhibit of the works at the National Museum of Women in the Arts reprises the creativity and relevancy of a group of female artists who emerged decades ago.
Around St. Peter’s Square, the pope offered services to the homeless and migrants, in ways that often did not go down well with his fellow clerics.
The royal leader of the Kingdom of Benin sought the return of artifacts displayed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The collector who owned them took them back instead.
Years ago, Vladimir Kanevsky’s floral sculptures started turning up in Manhattan’s most elegant living rooms. Now his work is on display alongside masterpieces.
A Massachusetts native, she painted geometrically precise images of rural and seaside New England dwellings that found fans among the storied magazine’s ardent readers.
After a two-year closure, the Yale Center for British Art has reopened with its historical collections in lively conversation with contemporary art.
For some, works from the rising artist Esteban Raheem Abdul Raheem Samayoa are reminiscent of those by renowned predecessors like Francisco Goya.
Yaddo may not be in the cards, but from a chateau near Paris to a California desert cabin, here are programs that foster writing, music and artistic talent and can be booked for days or weeks.
Caravaggio was an artist of rare directness, whose naturalistic pictures brought the heavens down to earth. Our critic Jason Farago shows you what Francis may have seen in them.
This year’s colorful and wide-ranging edition of the Association of International Photography Art Dealers fair is a bursting capsule history of the medium.
Devotees of the human figure, Cecily Brown and Christina Ramberg turn the Benjamin Franklin Parkway into a showplace for the female gaze.
The Chinese artist’s commentary “on what is unfolding politically and culturally in our time” has a lighthearted note: cat-patterned camouflage. The work inaugurates a new art series at the park.
The new show at the Hirshhorn Museum, “Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen,” plumbs the past, the idea of presence and the possibilities of what painting could be.
Otobong Nkanga’s boundary-breaking and prize-winning art is on view at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas.
Henry Clay Frick, aggressive in art collecting as well as business, acquired many of the masterpieces of the museum, whose renovated Fifth Avenue mansion recently reopened.
Sandra Poulson discusses Louise Bourgeois, Angolan humor and cheap wood.
As a restorer who specialized in late medieval and early Renaissance paintings from Italy, he was in intimate touch with the paintings of long-dead masters.
He was a top deal maker in the world of mergers and acquisitions, during the 1980s takeover boom and beyond. He also had a keen interest in art.
A New York judge found that the Art Institute of Chicago’s drawing by Egon Schiele had been looted from an Austrian Jew who died in a concentration camp.
This year’s nominees for the prestigious art award include Mohammed Sami, an Iraqi painter, and Zadie Xa, a Canadian installation artist.
As the artist in residence at the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics, Judith Schaechter created a giant dome to spark joy. It’s now on view outside Philadelphia.
New additions to Adriana Varejão’s acclaimed “Plate” series are showing at the Hispanic Society Museum and Library, in her first solo museum exhibit in New York.
Leaders at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and others say their core mission of elevating Black voices will not change.
Like many feminist artists, she took the body as her subject. But while others were exploring their own bodies, she painted the male anatomy.
Photography and portraiture are at the center of exhibitions this spring and beyond, examining their forms and themes and the people behind them.
Across the United States, younger curators work to broaden audiences and redefine not only what an exhibition can be but also what an artwork is.
An exhibition at Gagosian includes never-before-seen works from the personal collection of Paloma Picasso, who helped organize the show.
Including one very famous monster.
The artist cites the French painter and sculptor Marcel Duchamp as a formative influence on his work.
In Japan, the simple act of walking has long been connected to working toward enlightenment.
His heavily textured paintings brought him renown in the 1980s. In the ’90s, Nick Nolte played a character inspired by him in a Martin Scorsese film.
In 1999 Ann Craven lost nearly everything in a studio fire. Since then, she has made “revisitation” paintings. Next month, these works will be shown across Maine.
At 82, the widely admired artist is getting the higher level of recognition she has sought for decades.
A show now at the Seattle Art Museum is the largest in the U.S. in the 40-year career of the renowned Chinese artist.
We’re inviting illustrators from around the world to share their work with art directors from The New York Times. Apply by June 1, 2025.
While inspecting a sumptuous villa in Rome, an electrician stumbled across long lost works by the Baroque painter Carlo Maratta.
An artist imagines the flora of distant, nonexistent worlds.
As Thelma Golden and Lisa Phillips put finishing touches on their expanded buildings, they assess their legacies, and the cultural shift ahead.
Recientemente se ha determinado que el artista pintó su última obra, “Raíces de árbol”, en Auvers-sur-Oise. Las raíces aún existen, lo que ha provocado una lucha por su conservación.
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.