For a special section from the Sports desk on the U.S. Open’s history of night tennis matches, Chris Buzelli had a big space to fill: about the size of a mini-fridge.
Some gems from the life’s work of people remembered in obituaries in The Times.
He began his career creating magazine advertisements and covers for TV Guide, and later focused on vibrant new versions of classic children’s tales.
He played prominent roles in both city and state government in New York. He wore another hat as well, supporting artists and building a vast drawing collection.
The cultural world Mr. Koch inhabited as benefactor and board member did not typically engage in the political discourse that made him a figure of intense debate.
Weavers, sculptors and visionary eccentrics at the International Folk Art Market have liberated traditional definitions of craft. Social media is challenging ideas about who can make art.
Our guide to new art shows and some that will be closing soon.
An epically scaled exhibition flaunts the art form’s pioneers as well as its provocateurs.
“Figures of Speech” in Chicago tries to capture the essence of a prodigious fashion designer. It’s an endeavor with radical juxtapositions, clever products and some missed opportunities.
Veronica Etro, now in her 22nd year at the house her father founded, puts together collections that pull from ancient Japanese calligraphy and skate culture alike.
The Brooklyn Museum opens its doors to the 97-year-old French designer, still defined by his groovy late ’60s fashions.
“Why try to hide the reality of our history?” she said of the objectionable images that confronted San Francisco students every day.
The move comes less than a year after she was named chairwoman of the auction house.
The jewelry designer Irene Neuwirth has filled her abode with gemlike colors and pictures of her dog.
The jewelry designer invites T into her home in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Ceramic sculptures; warped photographs; floral still lifes; treasures in a trash collection; and swoops of acrylic indigo.
The dancer and choreographer talks about his collaborations with Arnie Zane, Keith Haring and Robert Mapplethorpe — and the time the Vatican denounced him.
Nora Burnett Abrams, the curator behind the museum’s Tara Donovan and Basquiat exhibitions, will lead the innovative contemporary art institution.
For a pair of avant-garde artists, eternal life wasn’t just a dream — it was a possibility. As long, that is, as you were committed to an uncomfortable existence.
The artists Arakawa and Madeline Gins completed work on their only realized American residential project in 2008, after more than 40 years of collaboration.
A major touring retrospective of the American painter brings her out of the shadow of her famous husband.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is studying the Indian artifacts it holds that track back to a man accused of running a major antiquities smuggling ring.
Anna Paquin joins the Showtime show’s time-skipping final season, and the Scary Movies festival descends upon New York.
The pioneering artist, who came to attention with her poured-latex floor works, is still pushing the limits of her medium.
One of the Upcountry city’s most intriguing areas is West Greenville, an enclave that has been transformed into an artistic and entrepreneurial district.
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From sunrise to sundown, a Philadelphia visit rediscovers the artist’s challenging contributions to installation art.
Our guide to new art shows and some that will be closing soon.
The estate said in court papers that the caretaker siphoned off money and artworks from Mr. Indiana before the artist’s death last year.
A master of illusion, Ms. Crane transformed the quotidian into the quirky by distorting images through a variety of formats.
The Instagram star, newly represented by Richard Taittinger Gallery, makes Pop art that speaks to the challenges of being a South Asian millennial.
Gina Beavers’s vexing high-relief paintings; sculptural works in glass from Monica Cook; and RongRong chronicles the bohemians of Beijing’s East Village.
Private art collections are notoriously secretive. A collective website aims to make them viewable by all.
This round of funding, the final for the fiscal year, totals $29 million and will support 215 projects across the country.
Sought after by Spike Lee, Stanley Kubrick, and Solange Knowles alike, the visual artist is changing representations of blackness in museums and beyond.
The multimedia artist discusses a video that he found on YouTube — a 1992 gospel performance by the Thomas Whitfield Company.
The vote, which came after a tense meeting, nullified an earlier vote to paint over Depression-era school murals that some considered offensive to minorities.
The Queens, Brooklyn and New York libraries’ initiative has partnered with 17 new cultural institutions since its inception, bringing the number of participants up to 50.
Without exiles and émigrés there is no modern culture. A new show in Washington maps a century of art and displacement.
With a new eight-story headquarters, Pace passes a generational baton while joining a building boom among the city’s biggest galleries.
Following outrage over its vote to paint over the murals, which some considered offensive, the board is considering covering them in a way that preserves them.
The bride and groom, both visual artists based in New York City, started out as close friends before finally committing to a relationship.
A Marvel star lands at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater, Beck and Cage the Elephant bring their tour to Forest Hills and ‘Lodge 49’ returns for a second season.
Works by Nick Cave, Nathalie Djurberg, John Giorno and others have been choreographed into the landscape for an Apple-New Museum walking tour.
The fashion designer Rosetta Getty looked to the famed German art school founded 100 years ago, specifically to its lesser known women students.
Our guide to new art shows and some that will be closing soon.
The videos, product of an animation class, will be projected onto Eastern State Penitentiary, a former prison in Philadelphia that is now a museum.
At the Clark Art Institute, when you tire of Renoir’s nudes, look at Ida Ten Eyck O’Keeffe’s quietly insistent art, some of which survived long enough to be rediscovered.
Galleries abound due north of the city, showing Warhol, Basquiat and the talents of Arte Povera.
At 75, the trailblazing artist, feminist and author of “Lesbian Art in America” finally gets a museum survey, and it shines.
Margot Bergman’s doll images, Harald Szeemann’s quirky tribute to his grandfather, and the neo-Classicists rising again.
Working across food, fashion, art and design, these people are reinventing the rules of their professions and inspiring us to look at familiar worlds anew.
Alana Wilson’s delicate vessels belie the violent chemical processes she uses to make them.
Aaron Aujla and Ben Bloomstein of Green River Project draw on their backgrounds as artists to create conceptual handcrafted furniture.
Theresa Chromati’s swirling canvases offer joyful, nuanced depictions of black women and, increasingly, her own inner world.
In deeply personal works such as the acclaimed “Bronx Gothic,” Okwui Okpokwasili explores ideas of cultural memory through poetry and visceral body-wringing choreography.
The vibrant encrusted surfaces of the artist Brian Rochefort’s ceramic vessels evoke Technicolor eruptions.
The artist makes liberal use of glitter while creating a new work in under an hour using a few select items.
Diedrick Brackens’s vibrant textiles tell stories about being black and queer in the South.
She was the lone and often overshadowed woman among the central figures of the avant-garde movement in Italy known as Arte Povera. But her day did come.
As our culture’s expectations of artists and art have changed, archives have moved on from the library and transformed into something stranger and more amorphous.
Teresita Fernández, Leo Villareal and Hank Willis Thomas will create the site-specific installations as part of BAM’s Robert W. Wilson Public Art Initiative.
A political battle between Japan and South Korea has spilled into the art world, with the abrupt closing of an exhibit with a statue symbolizing women forced into sexual slavery.
The facility, the Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies, will have galleries and educational programs and study Bayer’s work.
One of Latin America’s greatest postwar artists, he wanted shifting and shimmering color to be experienced as intensely as cold or heat.
An ambitious survey of underrecognized gay artists of the last half century.
“Meeting” had been closed indefinitely in January, after nearby construction became visible from the installation.
Our guide to new art shows and some that will be closing soon.
The Art Institute of Chicago explores the great paradox of the 19th century’s greatest painter: from a scandalous youth of frank nudes to flowers, fruit bowls and fashionable women.
Art meets social action in “Mirror/Echo/Tilt,” which uses gestures to combat stigma — through film and real-life interventions.
Forget those predictable poster reprints. Some properties have begun to push the boundaries of what it means to be a hotel with great art.
‘Painters Reply’ extends a 1975 debate; Heather Dewey-Hagborg’s installations merge science and art; David Kennedy Cutler’s brilliant new paintings; and Allan Sekula, a photographer against the grain.
This Washington couple has floor-to-ceiling art as well as wearable creations and folk art curiosities.
Mickalene Thomas and her partner, Racquel Chevremont, invited fellow members of a new collective of queer black women to their house for margaritas and zip-lining.
The artist and collector invite T into their country home in Salisbury, Connecticut.
The French-born illustrator behind “Press Here” and other children’s books strives for “no barrier” between inspiration and the finished product.
A curator’s time capsule of a violent moment and its repercussions brings fresh insights — and reveals stresses with a museum.
With his renderings of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Fiorello La Guardia, John F. Kennedy and others, he strove for realism (as he once did with a doll).
Pace will be the first New York gallery to represent the 85-year-old abstract painter, while his work debuts next month at Dia:Beacon.
The lines are long to see an art exhibition whose implicit theme asks a probing question: Would genius like Picasso’s thrive within the confinements of contemporary China?
On the 500th anniversary of Leonardo’s death, three new coffee-table books revisit the life and legacy of the original Renaissance man.
Five female composers, “Four Weddings and a Funeral” a passel of posters protesting apartheid and Off!