Jim Sanborn planned to auction off the solution to Kryptos, the puzzle he sculpted for the intelligence agency’s headquarters. Two fans of the work then discovered the solution.
The Princeton University Art Museum has navigated a controversy around its architect and political pressures facing cultural and academic institutions on the way to the opening of its new building.
Swim in azure waters, visit an 18th-century glassblowing factory and explore the picturesque towns of this Balearic island.
She broke out in 1992, with a work that drew a lot of heat — and brought her fame. Now, El Museo del Barrio is exploring the Cuban American artist’s life and legacy outside the cage.
In San Juan, the Museo de los Santos y Arte Nacional is helping to revive interest in santos, small wooden statues of saints that artists have made for centuries.
About one-third of U.S. museums have lost government funding this year alone. Now, they look ahead — and find ways to move forward, despite the obstacles.
A survey at the Walker Art Center celebrates the interdisciplinary artist Dyani White Hawk, whose works are grounded in the Lakota philosophy of connectedness.
As U.S. institutions reimagine their programming, some are adopting a new approach: recruiting young people to organize their shows.
At the Met Cloisters in Manhattan, paintings, statuettes and other objects demonstrate that human desire transcends time and cultures.
Institutions around the country are preparing for the nation’s 250th anniversary, even in the face of political crosswinds.
Some artists offer a glimpse of a future that is already occurring in some climates. Others imagine a world past the point of survival.
The visual artist Dread Scott, the playwright Lynn Nottage and others have organized a series of actions to unite the arts community against the Trump administration.
The fall schedule includes a number of exhibitions that look at works from Italy and France and the cultural events that shaped them.
Weatherbird cartoons that have graced the front pages of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for 125 years are on exhibit at the Field House Museum.
At “House of Music,” a London exhibition of paintings by Peter Doig, songs he typically plays in his private studio help bring his work to life.
The writer mined her conversations with Peter Hujar and other artists. Now, those exchanges are being brought to life onscreen.
The maligned sculpture — “weird,” “odd,” “bizarre” — is no longer a working fountain or a skateboarding mecca. But its supporters consider it an important city symbol.
A first-of-its-kind exhibition in San Francisco shows the artistry and history of the Japanese comics that have fueled hits across TV and film.
Compositora e intérprete autodidacta, tuvo una vida itinerante y poco convencional dedicada a recuperar y difundir la música folclórica chilena.
A self-taught composer and interpreter, she led an unconventional and itinerant life devoted to spreading Chilean folkloric music.
Readers respond to the rapidly developing events in the Middle East. Also: The virtues of coal; three hours with Velázquez.
Few moviegoers knew his name, but directors like Sergio Leone, Sylvester Stallone and Quentin Tarantino considered his vivid work invaluable.
For the Amant art center in Brooklyn, the artist Pierre Huyghe takes inspiration from a Superfund site for a new aquarium commission.
Thousands took part in a biannual hike to a South Dakota mountaintop, where a sculpture of the Lakota chief is in its 77th year of construction.
The artist, who died in 2008, would have reached that age this month. But buoyant birthday festivities around the globe come mixed with sobering news about his former home.
At the annual Bridges conference, mathematical creativity was on dazzling display.
A once-in-a-decade exhibition of ancient deities — many are goddesses — ranging over more than 3,000 years, from monumental statues to gleaming figurines.
In Lu Yang’s art, the deliriousness comes from the collision of cutting-edge technology with centuries-old ideas of the highest order.
Una exposición única en Italia muestra cómo el pintor renacentista creyó con todo el corazón y logró hacer visible esa fe.
The theft of the beloved dinosaur statue upset residents of a California community that was damaged by wildfires earlier this year. Then she was returned with an apology.
In sculpture and design, towering sculptures are rising once more.
A once-in-a-generation exhibition in Italy shows how the Renaissance painter believed something with his whole heart, and then made it manifest.
Using found footage and toying with dimensions (2-D could seem like dazzling 3-D), he sought to explode cinema’s traditional boundaries.
The vandalism did not appear to have been politically motivated, according to the Washington State Patrol, which said that a suspect was in custody.
Think you know the landmarks, legends and lore of the city that never stops reinventing itself? See how well you measure up.
Bobby Cannavale, James Corden and Neil Patrick Harris talked about paintings that made an impression and, like their characters in “Art,” had questions about one another’s taste.
When it came to using her life in her work, the artist Lee Lozano went about as far as a person can go.
We’d like you to look at one piece of art for 10 minutes, uninterrupted.
He was best known for huge, fantastical installations that were not always built to last, including a version of the Trevi Fountain in Rome.
Her biography spans some of the 20th century’s most artistically compelling and politically harrowing moments, but it also overshadows her contribution to photography.
The musician and record producer Brian Eno delves into his experiments with ambient music, his thoughts on generative A.I. and his deep gratitude for the uniqueness of human life.
For two decades, Gallery Wendi Norris has broadened and complicated ideas about Surrealism. Now she is bringing major Mexican-influenced works to Frieze Masters.
The southeastern county of East Sussex is home to a wealth of independent galleries and exhibition spaces.
The Iraqi-born artist Hayv Kahraman explores displacement from Baghdad and Altadena in her New York show, “Ghost Fires.”
The show’s curator stands by the authenticity of lithographs by the Surrealist artist, saying he has the documents to prove it.
This week in Newly Reviewed, Will Heinrich covers Zoe Leonard’s armor, explosive paintings from Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Max Schumann’s paper bag art and Ed Bereal’s skeletal demon.
The Kosovar learned he’d won a top art world honor as he was dealing with a suspected arson before the Kosovo premiere of his opera.
For a music critic, drawing the violinist Jennifer Koh was a balancing act between perception and creation, not unlike criticism itself.
Not everyone loves the new work in Brownsville, Tenn., but sponsors say they choose to see the bright side of the passionate responses.
Larry Bell, pioneer of West Coast Minimalism, installs his glass sculptures in a Manhattan park, letting passers-by see the city anew.
Cultural figures, including the authors Gary Shteyngart and Jacqueline Woodson, the actors Ilana Glazer and Leslie Odom Jr., and the Guggenheim curator Naomi Beckwith, share their visions for 2050.
In Lower Manhattan, Trinity Church’s organ was heavily damaged in the Sept. 11 attacks. A new organ, which took nearly 10 years to build and design, was recently unveiled.
The discovery of huge petroglyphs of camels and donkeys, as well as hundreds of engraving tools, hints at complex early settlement in the region following the Ice Age.
In the largest European exhibition to date of work by the American painter, the viewer is anything but a passive spectator.
At Dia Beacon, a retrospective looks at the career of Tehching Hsieh, whose yearlong performance art pieces were some of the most grueling the medium has ever seen.
The artist Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley wants her audience to actively grapple with her ideas. To experience her work, you have to grab a controller and interact.
For years, Michaelina Wautier’s paintings were attributed to men. Then a chance discovery in a Vienna museum helped bring the truth to light.
Un reportero pasó 180 minutos de “atención inmersiva” con la famosa pintura de Velázquez. El elaborado autorretrato del gran artista del siglo XVII le dio mucho en qué pensar.
The collector’s holding companies had sued his insurers for $400 million to cover paintings that they say had been damaged in a fire. The insurers said they had survived untouched.
A year after Hurricane Helene ravaged western North Carolina, some are trying to make sense of it all through creative expression, an outlet that has blossomed for centuries in this region.
The artist’s blockbuster survey across nearly five decades at the Royal Academy of Art in London tackles Black history in all its complexity.
The first U.S. survey of the Cuban American artist’s films, photographs and installations explore her critical take on political culture.
Take a slow weekend exploring farms and hiking trails in Connecticut’s bucolic northwestern corner.
Remedying years of oversight, the National Museum of Women in the Arts is trying to make female painters from the Low Country household names in America.
Las figuras aparecieron misteriosamente el martes, e incluían frases del mensaje de cumpleaños del presidente Trump a Jeffrey Epstein, el delincuente sexual fallecido.
The United States Park Police said it had removed the statue, which included lines from President Trump’s birthday message to Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased sex offender.
A museum’s directors said Chinese and Thai officials pressured them to remove the names of artists whose works criticized China. The curator flew to London, fearing arrest.
El Laboratorio Arte Alameda se encuentra en un cavernoso edificio sagrado que data de 1591, lo que supone un agudo contraste con los objetos tecnológicos que se exhiben ahí.
What inspired that furry figure in the corner of Rembrandt’s celebrated painting? Researchers at the Rijksmuseum say they’ve solved the longtime mystery.
What 18th-century sculptures taught me about my stutter.
A tour through the Fox News host’s New Jersey beach home
The Alameda Art Laboratory is housed in a cavernous sacred building dating to 1591, providing a sharp contrast to the technology-driven objects on display.
The dealer Gian Enzo Sperone now prefers to spend his days at his remote mountain retreat, far from the influential New York gallery he opened in the 1970s.
The artist Nonamey makes a sculpture out of a few craft items and a copy of The New York Times.
A new exhibition in Italy puts the spotlight on Fra Angelico, whose reputation for piety vied with his undeniable artistic talents.
In defiance of the usual pace of change in New York City, more of these spaces are being left untouched, becoming intimate monuments to a creative life.
A champion of contemporary art, she was the museum’s president for 11 years. She also founded the Art for Justice Fund, donating $100 million.
Lévy Gorvy Dayan surveys the decade’s groundbreaking artists, from Basquiat and Haring, to Julian Schnabel and Cindy Sherman. Mary Boone stages a comeback as the show’s co-curator.
Cuba balked at lending the museum work by Wifredo Lam, but the new director threw his firepower into assembling a global survey.
Glenn D. Lowry led the Museum of Modern Art for longer than anyone. But the institution he reconstructed (twice) is facing all-new trials.
A pioneer of contemporary basketry, he used plant material from his backyard to create ingenious forms that blurred the line between art and craft.
The exhibition aims to give a voice to people making creative work about their lives in a war zone. “These small notebooks and my pens became my refuge,” one wrote.
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.