The replica of Picasso’s famed painting depicting the horrors of war had hung outside the Security Council chamber since 1985, on loan from the Rockefeller family.
She believed that life for her people in America was an act of near-superhuman perseverance, and she was determined to capture that history in every medium she could.
Since they have spent so much time at home in the last year, some homeowners have taken craft and design projects to a new level.
Selling digitally isn’t the same, most agree. But that doesn’t mean that bricks-and-mortar exhibition spaces will all return to how they were.
He and Don Shanosky developed the pictogram symbols widely used to identify airports, restrooms and more. He was also an artist known for his sculptural assemblages.
No barriers. No texts. No heavy gold fabric. At the museum’s two-year sublet of the Breuer building on Madison Avenue, it’s just you and the masters.
A new Parisian bakery, hand-embroidered pillows — and more.
The architect of the Capitol and other officials told lawmakers that the physical and psychological toll of the Jan. 6 riot — including damaged artifacts and staff trauma — will be extensive.
The Simpsons, Snoopy and the Smurfs are all here in a survey of the artist Brian Donnelly’s 25-year career.
The artist’s brash riffs on the news have whipped up a frenzy of interest within the cryptocurrency scene.
“Threads,” a group show of textile art; Peter Sacks’s imposing “Republic”; Kazuko Miyamoto’s sculptures; and “K as in Knight”explores ambiguity.
Hanne Tierney has made her FiveMyles gallery in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, both a beacon and an anchor for the neighborhood.
The architect David Adjaye spurred a painstaking re-creation of a doomed artwork for its new home — and added a homage to the union’s place in social justice history.
“We don’t know how long this period of extreme difficulty will continue,” the museum’s director, Adam Weinberg, said in an email to staff.
Ai Weiwei and other artists say the investor Leon Black should step down as MoMA’s chairman amid revelations that he paid $158 million to Jeffrey Epstein.
On the eve of her first major retrospective, the artist talks about her past, her process and the benefit of criticism.
Extolling horizontality, he made sculptures from felt, flour, glass sheets and even meat cleavers. Elsewhere, in a performance piece, his body was a sprinting projectile.
The authorship of the tiny inscription, “Could only have been painted by a madman,” was disputed. Curators in Oslo say the artist definitely wrote it himself. (But why?)
A Sicilian-born artist, he installed the artwork in Lower Manhattan without permission. The outpouring of public support persuaded the city to keep it.
The heirs have argued that the work by Wassily Kandinsky was sold under duress by its Jewish owners after the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands.
The artist’s latest work, for which she made an image nearly every day for almost 14 months, unexpectedly became a document of life at the start of a pandemic.
The Guatemalan composer, inventor and writer Joaquín Orellana’s creations are the subject of the Americas Society exhibition “The Spine of Music.”
And at 86, the pioneering conceptual artist isn’t done yet. She’s getting her first retrospective ever, at the Brooklyn Museum.
An urgent show at the New Museum — both a monument to a resilient culture and a memorial to what’s lost through racism — will surely rank as one of the most important of 2021.
In the aftermath of loss, Jason Bard Yarmosky sought refuge within an unusual 1950s home on the shore of Long Island — and found both respite and inspiration.
An exhibition of new work by Stanley Whitney, housewares from Ogata Paris — and more.
Adenrele Sonariwo has brought her Nigerian sensibility to Melrose Avenue, with a show focusing on women.
Medrie MacPhee’s paintings; Jeanne Reynal’s mosaics; Angela Dufresne’s kinetic works; and Joaquín Orellana’s sonic sculptures.
His departure comes in the wake of a job posting, since corrected, that described the museum’s core audience as “white,” and amid criticism from a trustee, some staff and local artists.
The 28 most valuable works he and Jeanne-Claude collected and created were offered in a live auction on Wednesday; a timed online sale of another 347 lots will end on Thursday.
The founder of an insiders’ art fair in the Texas town is now planning a bigger cultural center, in the desert, for visitors year-round. It will open in the fall.
The creative classes are providing a mass uprising in the country with an imaginative verve and rebellious spirit that has caught the military generals off guard.
Paul McCarthy has spent his career cultivating a visual language of depravity and scathing critique. After half a century, we still can’t turn away.
The pact covers 22 full time and 145 part time staff who work in facilities, maintenance and art handling operations.
The Canadian artist Divya Mehra’s first U.S. solo show takes a surprising look at mourning. She uses giant emojis to portray her devastation.
The Canadian artist Divya Mehra’s first U.S. solo show takes a surprising look at mourning. She uses giant emojis to portray her devastation.
A selection of recent visual books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.
Ambience videos pair relaxing soundscapes with animated scenery to make viewers feel immersed in specific spaces, like a cozy library. They’re big with “Harry Potter” fans.
The museum wrote that it was seeking a director who would work to maintain its “core, white art audience,” in addition to attracting a more diverse one.
She was a guide at the museum for decades, bringing both knowledge and humor to the task. She died of complications of Covid-19.
Cultural institutions in France have been clamoring to reopen for months. They found an unlikely champion in a far-right civic official in Perpignan.
An ultramodern conservation center in northern France is a haven for flood-threatened items from the museum’s central Paris basement.
Manuela Soto Sosa is the stick-and-poke force behind the Soto Girls bikini gang.
In the 1960s, abstract painting was a controversial style for Black artists, overshadowed by social realist works. Now, it’s claimed its place as a vital form of expression.
Nicolas Heller captures New Yorkers’ favorite places and characters on his Instagram, @newyorknico.
In more than 100 drawings and prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the brilliant Spanish artist navigates the turbulence of politics and looks deep within the chambers of his heart.
The Philadelphia-based artist has been selected for the museum’s annual site-specific installation, which opens in April.
In the late 19th century, Japanese aesthetics and craftsmanship overtook Paris, inspiring a movement that would radically transform Europe’s visual culture.
For the painter Angel Otero, a former place of worship in upstate New York is a sanctuary in which to live and work.
Through thoughtful collaborations with Mexican artisans in Oaxaca and elsewhere, contemporary designers are helping to evolve — and protect — one of the world’s most enduring handicrafts.
Photographs by Black artists; Reggie Burrows Hodges’s New York debut; and He Xiangyu’s first solo show in the United States.
While many museums around the country have resumed operations, those in Los Angeles remain an exception. They have been shut since March.
Raymond McGuire has lived a grand New York life, conquering Wall Street and kibitzing with Steve Martin. But in his campaign for mayor, he is eager to reach beyond his wealthy supporters.
An artists’ group, criticized as vandals for dumping the bust of an 18th-century king, Frederik V, into Copenhagen Harbor, says it wanted to draw attention to Denmark’s role in slave trading.
Neal Benezra has expanded the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s collection, building and attendance over two decades — and navigated a bumpy last year.
His drawings were so outrageous that, on first encountering them, his fellow cartoonist R. Crumb recalled feeling that “suddenly my own work seemed insipid.”
Moving a grand collection and Gilded Age luxuries into Marcel Breuer’s modernist landmark.
A dining room with historic murals in Kennebunkport, Maine, connects its current owners with the past.
Brian Donnelly went from tagger to blue-chip artist, riding the increasingly blurry line between commercial and fine art.
An HBO documentary explores two centuries of art by African-Americans, and the path they forged for contemporary Black artists.
The latest unexplained metal slab was found in Turkey. It was surrounded by armed guards until it disappeared.
A distinguished art historian at Yale, he illuminated the paintings of Seurat, Monet and others by regarding them through a social lens.
Five works by the dazzling and seldom-seen painter Florine Stettheimer emerged on the market in 2020. But some stood on shaky ground.
In the 1970s she called out chauvinism and pushed back against the marginalization of women in the art world, in part by helping to create The Feminist Art Journal.
Like many museums, the Met is looking to take advantage of a relaxation of the rules governing art sales to care for collections.
The photographer Andre D. Wagner is based in Brooklyn — but always finds himself coming back to Times Square.
What may be an overlooked fossil in a well-known cultural site could offer clues to the age of its underlying rocks.
In 2009, a professor discovered a novel hue by accident in his university lab. Now, you can paint with it
In 38 days, with sculptures, drawings, videos and ingenuity, Nina Katchadourian revisited the shipwreck from “Survive the Savage Sea.”
The humbling exhibition “Photo Brut” brings together generations of self-taught artists who appropriate photographs or create their own.
An exhibition in Connecticut unites two dozen works featuring a single motif, reaffirming the restlessness of this painter’s progress.
Kelly Taxter, a curator at the Jewish Museum, will lead the Parrish beginning in March.
He brought a hard-driving style to the showing and selling of art in New York and beyond. He died of Covid-19.
Entirely self-taught, Jiab Prachakul has spent over a decade honing her practice and its purpose. Now, she’s gotten her first big show.
“Downtown 2021” pays homage to artists from more than two dozen galleries; Carmen Herrera’s Paris period reveals zigzag lines and textures.
Roméo Mivekannin’s great-great-grandfather was an African king whose treasures were looted by colonial forces. As France prepares to return some of the artifacts, the painter is examining how the past shaped his own identity.
From a lavish armory in Florence to a tiny gallery near the Arctic Circle, here are five far-flung museums that deserve more followers.
Arizona has allowed its museums to remain open despite a deadly outbreak, while in cities and states with far fewer cases, the doors have been closed.
Members of the global group share the painter’s passion for using art to explore social change.
New taxes, fees and red tape have some in the trade worried they will go out of business. Others see opportunities as the market readjusts.
Douglas Latchford, a scholar of Khmer antiquities who was accused of trafficking in looted artifacts, bequeathed his world-class collection to his daughter. She has returned it to Cambodia.
The Metallica musician and our film critic have both spent their careers thinking about the creative process and how it’s received. They compared notes.
A project in Cherry Valley, a longtime artists’ haven, is brightening storefronts and telling the world, “We’re still here!”
Men at Valentino and Fendi. Movies at Dior. A horse at Chanel. Thank goodness for the disruption amid the very fancy clothes.
The greatest breakthrough of 20th-century art was something you probably did in elementary school.
Why has this relatively simple form of sculpture been so fraught with meaning and symbolism over the centuries? The Kasmin Gallery has some ideas.
A scaled-back lineup includes Daniel Johnston’s colorfully nightmarish drawings, plus chunky clay cameras and quilts as abstract as anything in the MoMA.
“Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel” dates to around 1480, and its sale is the art market’s biggest test of the new year.
The artist’s earliest Color Field paintings, with their indomitable colors, austere compositions and wild pictorial spaces, are among the movement’s signal achievements.
Fancy frozen meals, Egyptian housewares — and more.
The most memorable illustrations of the year, as chosen by art directors at The New York Times.
Though museums, theaters and galleries were closed, and concerts and festivals canceled, many artists continued creating indelible work.
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How Benjamin West remade a bloody battle as a founding romance.
We miss theater. And we know you do too. So we asked you to share some memories with us.
Jenna Wortham and Kimberly Dean share a portfolio of favorite works — and discuss curating Black art when so much creativity is online and ephemeral.
Now it seems self-evident that pictures can represent who you “really” are. That conviction began with Albrecht Dürer, five centuries ago.
What a masterpiece of Japanese printmaking teaches us about the way images circulate.
How, in a single photograph, Robert Frank captured the ongoing story of a divided nation.
I’ve become obsessed with Thomas Eakins’s “The Gross Clinic.” Let me show you why.
We asked artists sheltering in place across the city to illustrate what it looks and feels like outside their windows.
Whether united by outlook or identity, happenstance or choice, these communities have shaped the worlds of art, fashion, film and more.
A small and highly influential group has chosen to disappear from society in favor of letting their work speak for itself.
With her lyrical work, made in 1991, Julie Dash and her collaborators recentered the black female gaze.
For decades, two blocks in Greenwich Village have been home to a disproportionate number of New York City’s writers, artists, actors and designers.
A city poised on the edge of Europe and the rest of the world became the incubator for talents like Dries Van Noten, Luc Tuymans and Ann Demeulemeester.
In the 1960s and ’70s, Brockman Gallery, Gallery 32 and JAM led the way in showing the work of artists now among the most influential of our time.
Kerry Washington on Beyoncé, Ta-Nehisi Coates on Kendrick Lamar, Oprah Winfrey on Toni Morrison. This is the black art that is defining the century.