
Is It Abusive to Make Art About Your Children?
It’s not quite #MeToo, but a spate of new memoirs is forcing a reckoning on what consent means when your parent is the artist.
It’s not quite #MeToo, but a spate of new memoirs is forcing a reckoning on what consent means when your parent is the artist.
On the Met’s facade, a Native artist honors parkland animals and engages his widest audience yet.
On the 40th anniversary of the New Photography series at MoMA, 13 artists and collectives on three continents find ties that bind — and a resurrection.
Stephen Prina borrows beats from John Bonham and Keith Moon for a series of performances coming to MoMA. His work is both loving homage and striking original.
The work, painted onto the walls of one of Britain’s most important court buildings, showed a judge attacking a demonstrator with a gavel.
A thrillingly revisionist history of the era at the Whitney Museum uncovers a current of art that sprang from eros and the uncensored minds of R. Crumb, Martha Edelheit and others.
She has come a long way, from the scrappy Los Angeles scene to working with prestigious museums and universities.
One of America’s finest memoirists, in photos and in prose, is at the peak of her powers in “Art Work”— and wondering if her pictures will survive.
The museum, renowned for its collection of paintings from the Middle Ages to the 19th century, has announced a plan to collect more recent paintings.
The mural that appeared outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London on Monday depicted a judge attacking a demonstrator with a gavel.
Sotheby’s will host Independent 20th Century at the Breuer building in Manhattan in 2026, positioning the company as “more than an auction house.”
As part of the group exhibition “Monuments,” the artist took a Stonewall Jackson bronze and transformed it into a radically new, unsettled thing.
Now 74 and “close to handing in my dinner pail,” the photographer recalls old slights, home remedies and balancing art and children in a new memoir.
Chloë Bass’s new audio-based public art project will be heard over the P.A. system at 14 M.T.A. stations around New York, urging commuters, “If you hear something, free something.”
A longtime trustee of the Museum of Modern Art, she was a savvy collector who befriended young artists like Robert Mapplethorpe and made her townhouse a showcase.
“Retrato de una dama”, del pintor italiano Giuseppe Ghislandi, no había sido vista en 80 años hasta que unos periodistas la descubrieron en un anuncio inmobiliario.
This week in Newly Reviewed, Travis Diehl considers a show on Smell-O-Vision, Edward Burtynsky’s exurban cacophony, Catharine Czudej’s playful transactions and a group show with a maze of water bottles.
Sometimes, journalists are heroes onscreen. Other times, they can’t help but fall in love.
As evidenced by a recent opening party, Galerie Sardine, on Long Island’s East End, has quickly become a sought-out destination for art, food and togetherness.
With its crowd-pleasers and safe bets, this big trade show tones it down for an uncertain art market. Our critics sampled the global art scene for these discoveries.
For an ambitious double-gallery debut, the Canadian painter improvised her way through glistening, musical, bulging and hideous fantasias on linen and on walls.
The artist had canceled the show in July, citing concerns about censorship at the Smithsonian. Now, the exhibition will be restaged at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
A trove of 20th-century art from Lebanon to Santa Fe, Miami to Mumbai. Look for spiritualist painting and undersung artists from Hawaii and Mississippi.
“Portrait of a Lady,” by the Italian painter Giuseppe Ghislandi, had not been seen for 80 years until journalists spotted it in a real estate listing.
The raw beauty of Spain’s “wild coast” has long lured artists and intellectuals.
Dolly Parton in Vegas, a shrine to David Bowie, a new standup special from Kumail Nanjiani and other picks from our critics and writers.
She wrote plays, novels and an Emmy-winning Lily Tomlin special. She was a painter, a sculptor and a nightclub singer. Oh, and she also wrestled professionally.
The appointment of Bénédicte Savoy underscores France’s changing views on the issue of returning artifacts that were wrongly taken during the colonial period.
Talented artists are using the technology to do what talented artists always will: ask human questions and express human ideas.
Zachary Small’s beat is the opposite of narrow, but that’s part of the fun.
Wary of being reduced to an art world commodity, Rose B. Simpson tries to stay true to herself and her community. Here, her story in five works.
Being seen for who we really are can be a complicated thing.
Spirituality and politics influence major N.Y.C. and L.A. exhibits, and shows featuring Tom Lloyd, Wifredo Lam, Coco Fusco and Vaginal Davis are must-sees.
Monet, Manet and Morisot are highlights, but also an exhibition of decommissioned historical monuments and a show of punishing performance art.
This fall, see Jacques-Louis David, Sheila Hicks and Gerhard Richter in Paris, Kerry James Marshall in London, Fra Angelico in Florence and more.
His formative years in sub-Saharan Africa had made him sensitive to France’s restitution of treasures taken from the continent during colonial times.
After decades of simple stemware and minimalist tumblers, wild, eye-catching vessels now adorn stylish tables.
The artist Fonki developed a graffiti style that blends ancient motifs with scenes of modern Cambodia.
We’d like you to look at one piece of art for 10 minutes, uninterrupted.
The periphery of the French capital is more vital than ever, and its creativity and dynamism have blurred old boundaries.
The Weis family savored their masterpieces at home but didn’t lend them to museums. The trove was “so private” that a Christie’s expert didn’t know what was in it.
In settling a lawsuit brought by the A.C.L.U., the Colorado town agreed to fund an art program for underrepresented people and provide cultural sensitivity training to some of its employees.
Our reporter Larry Buchanan invites you to spend time staring at a single work by the surrealist painter Gertrude Abercrombie, guiding you through the painting and revealing how Abercrombie used her art to bring you inside her mind.
Inside the designer Stephanie D’heygere’s collection of surreally oversize everyday objects.
When Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, an art program helped displaced children process their emotions. Twenty years later, their creations still have power.
Remnants of a 2,000-year-old sunken city, Canopus, were lifted from waters off Alexandria, Egypt, revealing the city might have been larger than thought.
La obra de arte había estado desaparecida durante 80 años hasta que unos periodistas neerlandeses la descubrieron en un anuncio inmobiliario de Mar del Plata.
There’s depth beyond Portland’s quirkiness, including one of the country’s finest dining scenes.
The artwork had been missing for 80 years before Dutch journalists spotted it in a real estate listing in Argentina.
The “too muchness” of Rococo painting has met its match with Flora Yukhnovich’s immersive “Four Seasons.”
Showcasing “American Progress,” John Gast’s tableau of Manifest Destiny, is of a piece with the administration’s desire for a more traditional view of American history.
Its director says that the Amsterdam museum could close unless the culture ministry increases funding to pay for a refurbishment.
Pennsylvania’s fastest-growing city is experiencing a development boom.
As the U.S. rolls back aid and protections, these contemporary artists are making the art world, at least, more open.
In overseeing the expansion of the Islamic art galleries at the Metropolitan Museum, she countered hostile narratives about the Muslim world that arose after 9/11.
For some art lovers, there’s no pathway too narrow for a casual scooch between a spectator and a painting to seem unwise.
Shore’s new book, “Early Work,” hints at the towering figure he would become in photography, a master of elegantly prosaic scenes.
Some museums are changing or canceling exhibits, especially those that involve artworks that engage with gender, sexuality and race.
Annalisa Iadicicco, who teaches art with the Blue Bus Project, starts her day with singing bowls and turns a bicycle into a shredder.
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.
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.