After Venice Biennale Fallout, Artist Representing U.S. Signs With Mega-Gallery
Alma Allen has joined Perrotin, months after two other galleries dropped him over his selection to represent the United States at the “art world Olympics.”
Alma Allen has joined Perrotin, months after two other galleries dropped him over his selection to represent the United States at the “art world Olympics.”
Las mujeres de Dinamarca, consternadas por la desigual representación en el arte público, tejieron en señal de protesta.
As President Trump prepares to close Washington’s premier performing arts venue for two years, loyal patrons wonder where they’ll get their cultural fix.
Works newly attributed to the Renaissance artist had exciting stories behind them. But experts say they are unlikely to be by his hand.
She was part of the acclaimed creative teams on comic book series for DC Comics, including Swamp Thing, which she called “Shvampy” in her German accent.
A self-taught artist, he turned reclaimed wood into striking abstract works influenced by Brancusi, Noguchi and African art.
The Watergate museum, now in a pop-up phase, focuses on the political crime that brought down Nixon.
Le Corbusier famously told her, “We don’t embroider cushions here,” when she sought a job at his studio. Then he recognized her talent for design.
She helped transform the American quilt from a utilitarian bed covering into a work of avant-garde social commentary.
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By hosting a pavilion again this year, Russia continues its efforts to shed its status as a cultural and sporting pariah.
Women in Denmark, dismayed by unequal representation in public art, stitched together a protest campaign.
Los carteles de mercado hechos a mano por Pasquale De Stefano son una especie en extinción que muestra la belleza cotidiana en una ciudad barroca.
While Emilia-Romagna’s capital still thrives on traditions like tagliatelle al ragù and mortadella, new openings are taking the city in refreshing directions.
Why the country is quick to tear down its modern architectural masterpieces.
Doron Langberg used to think their Israeli heritage was incidental to their art. Then the Gaza war brought questions of identity and history to the surface.
Andrea Fraser had long felt that she was to blame for the years her mother, Carmen de Monteflores, was overlooked. Now Carmen is 92. Can the Whitney Biennial make amends?
He covered the city with more than 50,000 square feet of murals, and showcased his work at the Magic Gardens Museum.
The numeraio Pasquale De Stefano’s handmade market signs are a dying breed of everyday beauty in a baroque city.
Sotheby’s, now in the former Whitney Museum on the Upper East Side, is auctioning off Scottie Pippen’s basketball memorabilia.
President Trump’s image — in paint and pixels, on posters and sculptures — is ubiquitous inside the White House, and beyond.
We’d like you to look at one piece of art for 10 minutes, uninterrupted.
In an age in which facts are losing their meaning, the performing arts can ground us in what is true.
Diya Vij, the incoming commissioner of the Department of Cultural Affairs, said she wanted to make “open, accessible and sometimes radical cultural activities possible.”
A speculative public art series that began in alleyways and on buildings and a tennis court fence is opening as a chilling new show at Western University.
As the blizzard surged, a garden of snow sculptures arose in a Brooklyn park — a testament to New York creativity.
James Cahill’s “The Violet Hour” contrasts the artifice of blue-chip modern art with the messy personal lives of the people who create and consume it.
She and her husband, the financier B. Gerald Cantor, amassed one of the largest private collections of Rodin artworks, donating much of it to museums around the world.
Since the artist was diagnosed with aggressive bladder cancer in 2020, a lot has changed in her life and work. A new show at Tate Modern examines Tracey Emin’s “second life.”
She extracts something new from steel, dispelling its aura of brawn. Her signature form is a rumpled ribbon of metal painted to look as soft as suede.
President Emmanuel Macron has championed a refurbishment of the museum, but the fallout from a sensational heist has put his plans at risk.
With women now controlling more than one-third of global wealth, they are spending more on art than men do, data shows, and influencing what museums acquire.
Laurence des Cars’s departure is the latest setback for the world’s largest museum. Her tenure was marred by labor strikes, water leaks, a ticket scam and security lapses, which led to the heist in October.
Krasner was typecast as the wife of the breakout artist of the Abstract Expressionist movement, no matter how renegade her own work. At the Met this fall, she emerges from his giant shadow.
Kelly Akashi, an artist, was one of thousands who lost their houses in last winter’s Eaton wildfire in Los Angeles. Her new sculpture for the Whitney Biennial marks one year of slow recovery.
Three words of guidance is all guests will have to go on when preparing for this year’s Costume Institute benefit, celebrating a cerebral exhibition about the “dressed body.”
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The 21-year-old man was killed by law enforcement officers after he entered Mar-a-Lago with a weapon.
An individual poured an unknown dark liquid onto a temporary skating rink at the Kennedy Center late Thursday night, in what the venue called a “calculated” attack.
For three generations, Bruno Goppion’s family has supplied display cases to the world’s top museums. What others look through, he can’t look past.
The country, a major center for African art, will not have an official presence at this year’s event after a legal dispute over a Gaza-focused artwork.
El artista dio protagonismo a este color durante un periodo optimista de su vida, en el que produjo algunas de sus obras más famosas. Una nueva exposición en Ámsterdam muestra sus distintas interpretaciones.
A New York restaurant’s Lunar New Year merchandise has become a coveted collector’s item.
The artist gave prominence to the color during a happy period that produced some of his most famous works. But it can have many different associations, a new exhibition shows.
How would a New York Times obituary writer measure up to the scribes of the Book of the Dead? He found out at the Brooklyn Museum.
The present and past coexist in a Southern city unlike any other.
Daniel Radcliffe, who returns to Broadway in “Every Brilliant Thing,” shared how his love for the “The Simpsons” has endured over the years and he revealed which books he is reading to his son.
Alongside the Frieze Los Angeles fair at the Santa Monica Airport, Feb. 26 to March 1, the city offers striking art discoveries and a celebrated group show.
How Michael Heizer’s massive projects have transformed the American landscape.
It took the artist half a century of toil in the most remote parts of Nevada to build what may be the most extreme contemporary monument ever made. Now what?
Eileen Harris Norton “built a whole new mountain and somehow got everyone to come climb up it,” the artist Mark Bradford says.
The Paris prosecutor’s office said a network involving museum employees and tour guides had been operating for a decade.
Her death from cancer was the second sudden loss for this year’s edition. Naumann’s exhibition will still go ahead in May, according to a statement.
But he begins to question his dedication to the sport on the way to Rockaway Beach in the depths of an icy midwinter. Is it worth it?
The exhibition at the University of North Texas by a Mexican-born artist included the language “Immigration and Cruelty Enforcement.”
A Rothko, a Twombly and a Surrealist box with a Medici princess by Joseph Cornell are estimated to sell for $145 million.
The painted portrait from President Trump’s first term was completed more than four years ago, but never unveiled. Now he wants the National Portrait Gallery to commission a new one.
A new exhibition about birds ranges from old masters paintings to contemporary art. The show is “a mad sprawl of instincts and intuitions,” says its curator, Simon Schama.
Few European cities combine history, beauty and walkability as seductively as this Andalusian capital.
The city is going to bed earlier, but there are still those harnessing the creative power of the night.
Ahead of the release of Scott’s first new album in over a decade, the musician and the artist discuss time-consuming art and the impulse to teach.
The magazine announced that two other editors there will jointly replace Tina Rivers Ryan, who has been in the role since 2024.
Part of a microtrend in art and design, these pieces are meant to be used but not worn.
Artists have played a vital role in defining the American city only to be forced out when rents rise. A novel approach in San Francisco seeks to break the cycle.
For “Mammoth,” a new show at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, he takes up contentious issues of race and climate change in beads, sequins and Lite-Brite colors.
Ten creative people share their strategies for thriving, or at least getting by, in difficult times.
A survey of museum directors reveals the impact of federal cutbacks: reduced arts programs for rural areas, students and people who are elderly or disabled.
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.
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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.
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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.