Max Harris did chores and collected rent at the artists’ warehouse where he lived. Now he faces trial for the deaths at a concert there — including some of his close friends.
Many of his conceptual pieces drew on the months he spent living with a tribe in the Amazon.
Museum executives said they could not explain why a man pushed over an exhibition case and hurled works by Chinese and Mayan artists to the floor.
Would an appearance at Art Basel Miami Beach help ten women scale the barriers of rejection or aesthetic misunderstanding they found in Georgia?
Ronald Ollie, a retired mechanical engineer, and his wife, Monique, a project manager at Johnson & Johnson, met at the National Black Fine Art Show.
Against the backdrop of a skidding stock market, declining endowments and a cooling of luxury real-estate values, another private museum announced its birth.
Turning Points asked five artists to select one of their own artworks and describe how it symbolized or reflected 2018.
The Glasgow-based artist won the British art world’s top prize for her painterly work discussing queer experience. Past winners include Damien Hirst and Steve McQueen.
The Dia Art Foundation will celebrate the acquisition of 155 works by Charlotte Posenenske with a retrospective of her work at Dia:Beacon.
A jewel from the artist Raúl de Nieves, Art Production Fund and Bulgari lights up Miami Beach.
The Mauritshuis in the Netherlands, working with Google, has created an app that provides a virtual museum filled with all of this artist’s works.
Creators of the hit Broadway musical received a special award for “a transformative work” on a night honoring Reba McEntire, Cher, Wayne Shorter and Philip Glass.
A roundup of things our editors — and a few contributors — are excited about in a given week.
A federal jury in New Hampshire ordered a former professor and her son to repay Andrew J. Hall for selling him fake paintings attributed to the artist Leon Golub.
The anthology comic book, first created to aid those affected by the June 2016 attack at the Pulse nightclub, is now benefiting the Trevor Project.
“Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly,” by Joshua Rivkin, the first biography of the artist, is a deeply personal work — as much about the biographer as his subject.
Sales have slowed in the face of new political realities, including Western sanctions on Moscow. But wealthy buyers continue to create surprises.
The idea of the artist (or designer or director or author) creating in a vacuum has always been a romance and has never seemed more mythical than it does today.
Our guide to new art shows and some that will be closing soon.
There’s more to love, with reservations, in the Houston museum’s Drawing Institute and its extraordinary inaugural show of Jasper Johns works.
A photo long thought to be one of two known pictures of the artist’s face is actually of his brother Theo, researchers in Amsterdam said.
He pioneered a style of radical simplification and wrote influential essays about it. But he also restlessly went beyond it, taking in performance, earthworks and more.
An exhibition of over 30 new paintings and several other works is among this artist’s most fun to look at, and uncharacteristically generous and self-revealing.
So dominant were his dangling masterpieces that others avoided the form, but now, enough time has passed for others to sway beside him.
For centuries, it’s been both medium and topic; now, an emerging cohort is challenging what it means to play with the most essential material.
These days — despite longstanding clichés about art and excess — the creative impulse can actually be more closely tied to asceticism.
Our photography roundup includes books by Abelardo Morell, Anne Brigman, Shomei Tomatsu and Lynsey Addario.
Mark Dery’s “Born to Be Posthumous” is an entertaining account of the hard-to-know artist behind “The Gashlycrumb Tinies” and other dark delights.
The Vienna police are investigating the robbery at the Dorotheum, where three suspects simply walked up and took a painting — a rare crime in the auction world.
Johanna Burton, who is currently at the New Museum in New York, will take on the role at the center at Ohio State University in March.
A public art project by the nonprofit Friends of the High Line asked for contemporary monuments. Images of the designs will tour five cities.
Jibade-Khalil Huffman’s video installation; Lorraine O’Grady’s collage poems revisited; and a last-chance look at Nona Faustine’s photographs.
Expertly crafted items, from a geode carved out of rock candy to drop earrings studded with tagua seeds, that possess something of a life force.
Stephanie and Tim Ingrassia had to look at their collection afresh when they made a move from Brooklyn Heights to the Brooklyn Bridge Park area.
T’s cultural compendium of what’s new.
The New Yorker cartoonist, the subject of a new retrospective, talks about getting started as an artist, why she loves crafting and the thing she hates drawing the most.
In Marfa, Tex., officials have raised taxes on adobe homes, pinching upscale homeowners as well as lower-income families who have lived there for decades.
At a conference to mark the 20th anniversary of an international accord on restitution, Hungary, Poland, Spain, Russia and Italy were faulted.
Sitting in front of Marina Abramovic at the Museum of Modern Art showed the author Heather Rose what it meant to be vulnerable.
The venue has announced its 2019 season, which will include a new play by Christopher Shinn, art by Hito Steyerl and concerts by Barbara Hannigan.
In her four-decade career, the artist has gone her own way, creating unapologetically lovely work that feels particularly relevant.
A look at the artist, who has created a visual iconography that is comprehensive and inimitable.
When taking portraits, Arnold Newman was less interested in the details of his subject’s surroundings than with the symbols he could create with them.
See the early looks for Han Solo, Chewbacca, Darth Vader and other “Star Wars” favorites, from the Oscar-winning John Mollo’s sketchbooks.
An expensive excavation campaign to shore up an at-risk area of the city is a constant font of archaeological discoveries.
A blockbuster week of sales backed by third-party guarantees reassures the art world that the market is humming, if not booming.
Action figures built with spare parts and silicone molds are an art form born of nostalgia.
We’ll not only help you figure out what exhibitions to see, but also offer some tips before you head out.
Our guide to new art shows and some that will be closing soon.
Our critics select museum and gallery exhibitions that provide a respite from carols and crowds.
A couple who began collecting the work of black artists as newlyweds in the 1960s are making large gifts to museums to raise the artists’ profiles.
Using mock placards, two art students playfully reframed New York’s subway stations as a gallery documenting the city’s anthropological history.
There is plenty of art to see now in the nation’s capital, but three exhibitions stand out: Bill Traylor’s iconic drawings, Dawoud Bey’s haunting portraits and the savoir faire of Senegalese women.
Beginning with “Dr. Strangelove,” he found attention-getting ways to make title sequences more than just a list of names.
Exhibitions of the work of Berthe Morisot and her teacher, Camille Corot, explore the changing images of women in late-19th-century France.
Decades after the movement flourished, its female practitioners are at long last being recognized.
An heir to Dutch Jewish art dealers says the art was sold to the Nazis under duress but the Dutch government says the works were sold voluntarily.
A court is to decide whether the London museum’s viewing terrace invades the privacy of residents opposite. For now, many visitors still enjoy the view.
The gift will help support the museum’s renovation and expansion project
The price paid for the award is said to be one of the highest ever paid in history for a Golden Globe at auction.
Phyllida Barlow and Anna Maria Maiolino, who have both received full recognition for their work late in life, sit down for a conversation about their careers.
Washi is to the Japanese something like what wine is to the French — a national obsession and point of pride.
The artist may have won acclaim for “The Clock,” but at a festival in England his music is the object of attention.
A letter pointed to a spot in Romania where a painting stolen from a Dutch museum in 2012 could be found. But what, exactly, was under the rock?
Max Hollein and Daniel H. Weiss, in their first joint interview, on making a home for contemporary art and the wing devoted to Africa, Oceania and the Americas.
A roundup of things our editors — and a few contributors — are excited about in a given week.
The museum leader had suggested he would retire after the expanded museum building opens in 2019. He will stay in his post for seven more years.
Cody Gilman, the aide, says in a suit that he was sexually abused. Mr. Bleckner says it’s a false accusation designed to secure a legal settlement.
Work from an acclaimed comic book story about the Holocaust was sold to a foundation wanting to share graphic arts with the public.
The trend toward broadening tastes at auction picked up steam at Christie’s with the Hockney and new highs for works by two African-American artists.
Our guide to new art shows and some that will be closing soon.
“Works of art should not be seen in isolation,” said Mr. Stern, who joined with his father-in-law to create a vast outdoor sculpture garden.
Billy Frist is attracted to the prettier photographs, unlike his wife, Jennifer Frist. Together, they have amassed a mini-museum.
A series considered one of the towering achievements of American art reminds us that nothing can surpass the strange beauty of reality if a photographer knows where to look.
On the 500th anniversary of the painter’s birth, our critic set himself a challenge: to see all of Tintoretto’s major works, spread around Venice at 23 locations.
A small museum show that concentrates on the ceramic works of a multidiscipline dynamo comes as something of a relief.
John Houck’s visual trickery; Svenja Deininger’s “Crescendo” paintings; Didier William’s eye-catching mixed-media works; and the poet John Ashbery’s demure treasures.
Quentin Bajac will leave the Museum of Modern Art to run the Jeu de Paume, France’s national photography museum.
In three auctions, there were some formidable prices, though eyebrows were raised at a number of intimidating estimates. And there were failures.
The object, made of 24-karat gold, honors Robert Henry Lawrence Jr., the first African-American to train as an astronaut.
After its debut at the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, “A Crack in Everything” will open at the Jewish Museum next year.
Storage companies are scrambling to keep up growing demand by expanding their facilities and offering more services as collectors and galleries run out of room.
Mary Ceruti will lead the Walker after nearly 20 years at the SculptureCenter in Queens. The Walker’s last leader stepped down amid conflict over a sculpture.
Daniel Libeskind’s architectural feat — all 900 pounds, 70 spikes, and three million Swarovski crystals of it — will light up the night at Rockefeller Center.
In each of three successive spaces called the Factory, Andy Warhol created movies, paintings, time capsules and psychosexual dramas with a half-life of many decades. Here his collaborators recall the places, the times and the man.
To reshape the narrative of art told by American institutions, the foundation will transfer 51 works by black self-taught artists to additional museums.