He used animation and other media to create worlds inhabited by anthropomorphic machines and industrious creatures. One curator described his work as “Narnia on acid.”
Alex Kachkine spends his days working on microchip research — a skill set surprisingly similar to that needed for restoration.
These four artists are turning to centuries-old stories of migration to expand contemporary understandings of race, ethnicity and origin.
The Trump administration highlighted material dealing with topics like sexuality, slavery and immigration.
Cece Philips discusses works by Barkley L. Hendricks and Edward Hopper, as well as one of her own new pieces, which depicts a solitary moment at the end of the day.
A weekend in Caen and Deauville offers travelers a full immersion of the northern French region.
N.C. Wyeth’s colossal 1932 mural, “Apotheosis of the Family,” re-emerges in a gleaming new round barn after years in storage.
The exhibition “Beloved Suburbs” drew more than 150,000 visitors to France’s Museum of the History of Immigration. “We really recognize ourselves in the exhibition,” one said.
Immersive art experience studios are attracting the creatively curious and filling retail vacancies in New York City.
A rare glimpse inside the archive of The New York Times showcases the decisions and hesitations that go into pressing the shutter.
The statue was missing an ear and two front legs, but it was mostly intact when crews recovered it from the Dragon Bravo fire.
El episodio reveló una profunda veneración por la Macarena, ante la cual tradicionalistas de extrema derecha y aficionados a la cultura “drag-queen”, salieron por igual en su defensa.
A statue in Florida has prompted complaints about its shoes, arm and head but also a discussion about art and representations of historic figures.
Nearly a year after Hurricane Helene severely damaged the popular River Arts District, the rebuilding process continues in a gradual manner.
The interdisciplinary artist Jeffrey Gibson shares five things he wishes he’d made.
With her husband, Charles Saatchi, she assembled one of the world’s top collections of contemporary art, featuring works by Andy Warhol, Julian Schnabel, Cy Twombly and many others.
In a cleareyed show at MoMA PS1 in Queens, artists wrestle with the refuse of consumer society. They’re not just worried about the environment. They’re rummaging for the human spirit.
Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan’s art commission hits a hot button. “I thought they might say, ‘We don’t want to wade in these waters’ — and the opposite happened,” the painter said.
Sleuths have solved three of the panels of the Kryptos sculpture at the agency’s headquarters. Now the artwork’s creator is announcing the sale of the solution to the fourth.
They transformed dolls into one-of-a-kind pieces that sold for thousands of dollars. A married couple, they died in a car crash in Italy.
Oh Hwangtaek has amassed one of the largest collections of Polish posters outside Poland. He shares his unlikely passion at his own museum in Seoul.
The Trump administration is giving museums 120 days to replace “divisive or ideologically driven language with unifying, historically accurate and constructive descriptions.”
Robert Longo was a little nervous about opening a big show in Denmark this year.
The artist discusses a work by the 17th-century Italian painter Artemisia Gentileschi that he believes “blows Caravaggio away.”
A Parisian-born oil heiress, she collected art and supported major artists, designed costumes and moved in rarefied social and cultural circles.
On Instagram, the artist Joseph Awuah-Darko asked the world to invite him to dinner before he ended his life. More than 150 meals later, he is still going.
Surrounded by the work of Impressionists who dedicated themselves to capturing felt experience rather than reality, I sensed that I would be OK with my altered sight.
A Los Angeles artist keeps upping the ante, whether photographing Arctic glaciers through lenses made of their own ice or using a camera that captures light itself at a trillion frames per second.
This week in Newly Reviewed, Jillian Steinhauer covers Agnieszka Kurant’s unnerving technology, a group show that nods to history, and Marian Spore Bush’s otherworldly paintings.
New York investigators said they repatriated looted objects to Italy, Spain and Hungary.
Richard E. Spear, an art historian and longtime partner of the artist Athena Tacha, strives to preserve her works in the face of her failing health.
Brenda Draney’s exuberant artworks are only selectively revealing.
We’d like you to look at one piece of art for 10 minutes, uninterrupted.
Trading in their brushes for pool cues, the group that gathers for “painters’ pool” find a respite from the studio.
Two years after deadly wildfires hit Lahaina, archaeologists, conservators and congregants have taken on a “CSI” challenge: saving thousands of cultural artifacts from landmarks and sacred sites.
In the 250 years since the artist was born, the natural world he loved so much has changed. But he still reminds us to look with truth, clarity, and feeling.
Looking for something to do in New York? See what Taylor Tomlinson is up to, let a clowder of onscreen cats entertain you, or catch some recently restored silent-era gems.
Our critic Jason Farago shares what you shouldn’t miss in a city crowded with both the seamy and stately.
Yuji Agematsu is not afraid to touch the city’s surfaces, and the refuse left by his fellow dwellers.
In “Stan and Gus,” Henry Wiencek explores the creative highs and private peccadilloes of the architect Stanford White and the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens.
At Site Santa Fe, 71 artists were inspired by Southwestern figures, from healers and novelists to Navajo code talkers. Here’s a guide to the highlights.
Widely admired if long underrecognized for his collage-based art, he died only days after the closing of his first retrospective at a major museum, in his native Pittsburgh.
Radiant Rembrandts, vibrant portraiture of everyday life and uncanny photographs in New York and Boston, to catch before they’re gone come August and September.
The artist said that she made the decision after she said she learned that her painting of a transgender Statue of Liberty might be removed to avoid provoking President Trump.
Visitors can grab a map and follow the trail to outdoor sculptures at the Clark Art Institute. But be ready for a surreal encounter.
For Michael Gibson, topiary art isn’t just clipping branches. It’s a life lesson.
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.