
Kathan Brown, Acclaimed Fine Art Printmaker, Dies at 89
She helped revive the centuries-old tradition of intaglio printing in the U.S., producing fine-art etchings with artists like Chuck Close and Sol LeWitt.
She helped revive the centuries-old tradition of intaglio printing in the U.S., producing fine-art etchings with artists like Chuck Close and Sol LeWitt.
A joyous reunion for art lovers at the Frick Collection’s gala offered a private viewing of iconic works from the 14th through the 19th centuries.
A chunk of wall that bears the work of the graffiti artist will go on display in Manhattan this month.
Textile weavers, tassel-makers, lighting restorers, cabinet makers and muralists forged new traditions at the sumptuous Beaux-Arts museum.
His executive order faulted an exhibit which “promotes the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct,” a widely held position in the scientific community.
Angelenos flocked to meet the artist and filmmaker, who came to the West Coast for the opening of his solo exhibition “Some More Collages.”
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In Michèle Gerber Klein’s new biography, “Surreal,” Gala Dalí gets her due.
The esteemed artist worked for The Times in 1972, but didn’t quite follow instructions.
The Museum of Modern Art in New York is promoting Christophe Cherix, the chief curator of its drawings and prints department. It will be his first time leading an institution.
Working in wood, he captured the zeal of New England sports with his exacting, lifelike renderings of Hall of Famers like Ted Williams and Larry Bird.
Why people do things that are unpleasantly hard.
Over nearly six decades, this fantastically inventive artist experimented with paint, turning it into a sculptural medium. Our critic calls his survey “scintillating and sweeping.”
Plus: long beaded necklaces, a floral designer’s book of unusual arrangements and more recommendations from T Magazine.
The nonprofit Center for Art and Advocacy, designed as a steppingstone to the art world, opens a public exhibition and education space in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Patrick Bringley stars in a version of his book, which tells how the Metropolitan Museum’s works of art helped him work through grief.
Thomas Kinkade turned himself into a ubiquitous brand — but there was more to him than that, a new documentary shows.
A deconstructed retrospective for the pioneer of Conceptual art shows off both the exhilarating highs and the sterile dead-ends of making ideas into artworks.
Mei Kawajiri hand-paints and sculpts custom designs for a clientele that includes Heidi Klum and Bad Bunny.
Some of the artist’s most psychologically insightful work came in the final years of his life — a mature period cut short by a pandemic.
Eric and Wendy Schmidt and the Sorbonne will fund a new program to digitize Delacroix’s papers and identify other artists who may have contributed to his murals and paintings.
The portrait of President Trump that he criticized as “truly the worst” was swiftly removed from the Colorado Capitol. The woman who painted it has remained silent.
A jurist in England scolded two members of the British Royal Air Force who damaged the bear, saying their actions “lacked respect and integrity.”
The artist’s tapestries, which incorporate distorted self-portraits and screenshots from the internet, feel both ephemeral and nostalgic.
Mushrooms in 19th-century watercolors: The paintings of a self-taught female mycologist are featured at the New York State Museum.
An exhibition at the Louvre-Lens in France examines centuries of interplay between art and fashion, including what the sartorial choices of artists revealed about their place in society.
With his engineering background, he thought about his work differently from how other artists did. His abiding interest was in energy, in the scientific sense.
Artists from around the world will converge in New York this fall for a program of live spectacles, combining music, sound, sculpture and commedia dell’arte.
The actress is building a community of artists, thinkers and doers of all kinds, in a storied building in downtown Manhattan.
David Sheff’s new biography convincingly argues for John Lennon’s widow as a feminist, activist, avant-garde artist and world-class sass.
Images from 1965 of the pre-eminent artist were stored in The Times’s archives and only recently revealed.
Over the years, the Taiwanese art world has blossomed, thanks partly to the gallerists Tina Keng and Shelly Wu, who have championed Chinese and Taiwanese artists.
Neighbors on Mariposa Street in Altadena, Calif., say artworks can be remade, but how do you restart a community?
The gallery selling the work, which resurfaced at the TEFAF Maastricht art fair, says a major museum is negotiating to buy it.
The darkly comic Southern novelist kept a quiet practice in the visual arts. For the centenary of her birth, her paintings are finally getting an audience — and updating her legacy.
On the eve of leaving the city for good, an English art dealer found himself captivated by a 17th-century apartment.
The houses of two of Sweden’s most influential artists and designers, Carl and Karin Larsson, came to shape the country’s national identity — and now represent an aesthetic ideal.
A great-great-great-granddaughter of the Swedish painter Carl Larsson leads a tour of the country house where the artist lived with his wife, Karin.
Our art critic goes room-by-room through New York’s Gilded Age house museum, reopening after nearly five years. Don’t miss the new upstairs galleries.
Lisa Schiff diverted millions of dollars from art collectors to fund her own luxe lifestyle.
The White House balked at a suggestion by a French politician that the U.S. send the Statue of Liberty back to France after he criticized President Trump’s decision “to side with the tyrants” against Ukraine.
The glimmering commode, an artwork by Maurizio Cattelan, was stolen during a break-in at Winston Churchill’s ancestral home in 2019.
Piet Mondrian pioneered abstract painting. But he kept painting flowers — flowers that our critic Jason Farago can’t stop thinking about. What makes them so magnetic?
After surrendering scores of art works thought looted, the museum is looking to its new head of provenance research to police its acquisitions and review its collection.
His artwork paid tribute to its surroundings, in New York City and elsewhere, rendering nature at an oversized scale that made it unmissable.
The magazine received concerns about the writer’s conduct at its centennial celebration at a star-studded party in Manhattan.
The president had harsh words for “Hamilton,” which canceled a planned tour there after he took over the center, but seemed excited about a long-planned “Les Misérables.”
At its show in Australia this weekend, the raucously political rap trio Kneecap brought what appeared to be the missing head of a King George V statue onstage.
La exposición busca conciliar el estilo de líneas limpias y superficies mínimas del arquitecto mexicano Luis Barragán con el vistoso esplendor de una de las plantas más cultivadas del mundo.
Attributing a work to the artist generally requires authentication by the Van Gogh Museum, but lawsuits and an influx of requests have made it reassess that role.
The museum, based in Henry Clay Frick’s 1914 Fifth Avenue mansion, reopens with a deft expansion worthy of a New York treasure.
The ghost of George Washington Carver hangs over the studio of Amanda Williams, where hues are inspired by the Alabama soil Black farmers worked.
“Rue Saint-Honoré por la tarde. Efecto de lluvia” se exhibe desde hace décadas en el Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza. Los herederos de la propietaria original ahora tienen nuevas posibilidades en un caso de restitución.
The fair has a jewel of a 16th-century illuminated manuscript, and other museum-quality items, but fewer standouts over all. Sales were still brisk.
The case involving a Pissarro is being sent back to federal court in California for review in light of a new state law, in a dispute between heirs and a Spanish museum.
Can two rivals, bringing Robert Indiana’s long-hidden work into the light, reboot his legacy for a new generation?
Meet “Mathemalchemy,” a traveling math-meets-art installation coming eventually to a dimension near you.
Plus: the revival of opera pumps, a new gallery in Texas and more recommendations from T Magazine.
The organization in New York has selected Denise Markonish, the chief curator of Mass MoCA, to lead its next chapter.
This year’s show pays elegant, effusively colorful tribute to the Mexican architect Luis Barragán and his signature palette of orange and creamy pink.
He conjured fantastical worlds with covers for novels by Philip K. Dick and Arthur C. Clarke. He also left his mark on albums by Fleetwood Mac and Rod Stewart.
The Santa Fe, N.M., company has found success tapping into the experience economy and artistic psychedelia.
The artist and musician, now 75, represents a devotion to the act of creation. His new LP “Tonky,” which incorporates jazz, blues, hip-hop and electronic music, is due this month.
Ahead of his largest-ever exhibition in the U.S., the dissident artist reflects on collecting jade and living below ground.
Crews began removing the Black Lives Matter mural in Washington on Monday after a Republican lawmaker threatened to withhold millions in federal funds from the city unless the mural was removed and the plaza renamed.
Paolo Zampolli, a Trump appointee on the center’s board, wants the institution to host Valentino fashion shows, send art into space and open a marina and a Cipriani restaurant.
Julie Averbach has written a book celebrating the displays, the murals and the installations at the grocery store chain.
DJ Morrow’s creations, inspired by his own emotional life, can disturb as much as they delight.
Janiva Ellis questions pat solutions with her fractured spaces and artworks that feel as if they are under construction, including some that actually are.
Sergio Furnari doesn’t need an alarm for a day of creating art, eating with his daughter and watching the movies in his mind.
As a sprawling new exhibit opens in two museums in Amsterdam, the German artist fears that history is repeating itself.
Works the size of postcards and bathroom tiles are challenging the market’s appetite for grand scales.
Brinda Dudhat, the founder of Morii Design in India, creates modern motifs supported by age-old techniques.
Two dozen works from museums and private collectors around the world are on display, with some reunited for the first time in centuries.
This week in Newly Reviewed, Seph Rodney covers Seokmin Ko’s Arcadian landscapes, David Altmejd’s discomfiting sculptures and Renée Green’s bright colors.
Anne Imhof’s three-hour spectacle of moody youth at the Armory is sweet sorrow, full of moping and muttering. Still, almost despite itself, it points to true art.
Plus: brightly patterned outdoor furniture, a hotel in the tropical forest of Costa Rica and more recommendations from T Magazine.
Long famous as the birthplace of paella, Valencia offers 300 days of sunshine, exuberant architecture and wide swaths of urban green spaces. And with artists, designers and digital nomads moving in, its cultural scene and gastronomy are soaring.
Joseph Walsh, an Irish designer, tries something new for the World Expo in Japan.
Sometimes, the art of making mirrors has little to do with reflection.
Mayor Muriel Bowser’s decision comes amid calls by the president and other Republicans for more federal control of the city.
As a young potter, he turned up on the doorstep of an octogenarian master of modern painting. They grew so close it became a scandal.
Women are giving the field a new dimension with narrative content, visually daring forms and social commentary, while also building community.
Three starving piglets were taken from a former butcher’s warehouse, according to the Copenhagen police. The artist said he wanted to wake up society about animal mistreatment.
This year’s fair will include a booth dedicated solely to First Nations Australian art, from bark paintings to works by Emily Kam Kngwarray.
A couple restored an abandoned farmstead as a rural haven where curious visitors can immerse themselves in the treasures of the island.
Critics largely rejected his work, but when it was last sold in 2004, “The Singing Butler” was the most valuable piece of art to ever emerge from Scotland.
A ubiquitous presence in New York’s art world, he also existed outside it, using 19th-century techniques to create ethereal, haunting images.
We’d like you to look at one piece of art for 10 minutes, uninterrupted.
Barry Joule says his friend Francis Bacon gave him a trove of sketches and paintings. Some experts aren’t so sure.
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.