Koyo Kouoh, who died of cancer at 57, was just months into her dream job overseeing the Venice Biennale’s centerpiece exhibition. But she left a plan that her assistants have tried to realize.
Erwin Bankowski and Karolina Bankowska, of New Jersey, commissioned a Polish artist to create counterfeit artworks that sold for a total of over $2 million.
Adam Pendleton and Gabriela Hearst celebrated a recent collaboration with an evening-long tribute to the legendary musician and activist.
The artist’s installation in South Central Los Angeles elevates familiar faces in the neighborhood with monuments of stone.
Nieves González, una pintora de 29 años, trabajaba antes en un relativo anonimato en Andalucía. Retratar a la cantante británica Lily Allen cambió eso.
Nieves González, a 29-year-old painter, once worked in relative obscurity in Andalusia. Her picture of the British singer Lily Allen changed that.
Fingir que los abusos de mi padre no habían ocurrido era una vía más fácil. Pero me di cuenta de que tenía que intentar curarme de este trauma si quería experimentar el amor de verdad.
A New York jury found that an art publisher who made works derived from Indiana’s images had infringed on the rights of a company that had been the artist’s partner.
In paint, bricolage and collage, she explored the history of art, ideas and the human species.
An austere lifestyle allowed her to make epic collages and Joseph Cornell-like contraptions that told stories about art history and her place in — and outside — it.
The jury said it would “refrain from considering” countries whose leaders are facing charges of crimes against humanity, which would affect Israel and Russia.
A special May evening sale will feature 16 artworks from the museum-quality collection of the Condé Nast chief S.I. Newhouse Jr.
Casi cinco años en una cárcel cubana me han enseñado que el gobierno no cederá en su control del poder.
Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo has turned a former gunpowder store into a showcase for her contemporary art collection.
Nearly five years in Cuban prison have taught me that the government won’t loosen its hold on power.
With Project Blue Space, the sculptor and image maker Shikeith brings the city’s Black history to the surface.
Artists who created public depictions of the civil rights icon Cesar Chavez have had to revisit their works after accusations emerged of Mr. Chavez’s sexual abuse of girls in the movement.
This year’s shortlist for the major British art award includes an artist who stages spoken-word performances and another who makes art using oil company merch bought off eBay.
For a decade and a half, Prajit and Projjal Dutta have led the market for South Asian art in the United States. Now they rarely speak to each other, except through lawyers.
Fire crews in Toronto hosed down a 25-foot tall ice sculpture that had been installed to promote a new album by the rapper Drake.
The Independent fair will push boundaries, featuring designs by Rei Kawakubo and Comme des Garçons that blur the line between fashion and sculpture.
When an Indonesian and Australian couple bought Yabbiekayu, their first visitors were foreigners. Now, they aim to be part of a “cultural awakening” in the region.
Two art exhibitions examining hypermasculine online content and its impact argue that sensitivity and vulnerability are also manly virtues.
Our critic calls the David Geffen Galleries “a beacon of glam with brains.” As a space to show art, it has problems. The Latino art is a revelation (if you can navigate the maze).
Lynda Roscoe Hartigan is returning to the museum as its leader after previously serving as its chief curator.
Giuseppe Penone, veteran of the Arte Povera movement, with his curator Adam Weinberg, former director of the Whitney, are recasting the natural world for a show at Gagosian.
“How It Feels to Be Alive,” by Megan O’Grady, blends criticism with personal history to explore how and why art affects us.
Museums around the country are celebrating the nation’s heritage in ways that go beyond what might be considered traditional.
After the State Department overhauled the process for choosing an artist for the Venice Biennale, it gave control to a woman who previously owned a pet food store.
The bold robbery at the Louvre shocked the world, but all museums face the challenge of protecting art and historical treasures.
A dyslexic teenager, he reinvented himself as a bodybuilder. Then he turned to art, producing transgressive paintings and elaborate birdhouses.
The artist and designer discusses world building, enchantment and wonder.
Her vivid paintings examined religious fundamentalism and events like the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol. She died this month at 46.
Her vibrant yet brooding work explored the crises of the Trump era, with paintings depicting the Jan. 6 riots and a mangled Confederate monument.
The actor shares his favorite performances, films, meals and more.
Easily confused design terms explained.
A highly idiosyncratic compendium of what you need to know right now.
What to know about one of the field’s most misappropriated terms.
Artists share their favorite pieces from institutions around the world.
A highly truncated timeline since World War II, with only some recency bias.
A timeline of 10 styles and their key works.
From 210 B.C. to A.D. 1995, essential pieces selected by four ceramic artists.
A history of land art in eight works.
Key examples from a medium that is about as old as human history.
Curators and historians on the materials that transformed the medium.
Six notorious artistic controversies, from Édouard Manet’s “Olympia” to Tracey Emin’s “My Bed.”
In an unusual collaboration for the Met, the opera’s set designer has conceived a companion exhibition, mounted at MoMA.
An exhibition explores examples of Pop Art from the 1960s in dialogue with recent acquisitions by contemporary artists.
My father treated me more like a wife than a child. It took me decades to face the truth of what happened.
The institution will feature five of the beloved author’s collage-based books in a series of interactive exhibits meant to engage children.
Current members of the museum have created a show that draws from, and comments on, the institution’s curious collections.
Even as the institution has grown and changed, it has continued to be a launchpad for emerging artists. This spring, it is putting 53 in the spotlight.
A career-spanning Alexander Calder exhibition in Paris turns the viewer into a collaborator and lifts the soul.
Thomas J Price’s bronze figures present anonymous Black people at heroic scale. After an installation in Times Square sparked a furor, his latest work welcomes visitors to a new museum outpost.
The signature survey by MoMA PS 1 of artists living and working in the city highlights those whose talent is often hidden in plain sight.
Mets fans, avert your eyes: John Middleton, majority owner of the Phillies, and his wife have a deep bench of American art stars, and they’ve lent them in a dual display for the 250th.
MoMA PS1 in Queens has been in Long Island City for 50 years.
A 58-year-old Parisian man won Pablo Picasso’s 1941 “Tête de Femme” in a charity raffle on Tuesday. He purchased his two raffle tickets for 100 euros each, and walked away with a $1.2 million painting. The charity raffle raised roughly $11 million for Alzheimers research.
A Parisian software salesman entered a charity raffle and came away with a piece of history: “I have some paintings, but not like a Picasso.”
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield will showcase works by people who live and work in New York’s shadow.
The showcase features works that change from hour to hour, invite interaction and interrogate the idea of creativity itself.
His many achievements have been obscured, some believe, by his reputation as a provincial landscape painter.
A $1.5 billion project will transform the nation’s most-visited art museum, with renovations involving a quarter of the galleries and public spaces.
The season includes a Duchamp retrospective at MoMA, a window on Etruscan civilization at the de Young in San Francisco and a fashion celebration at the Phoenix Art Museum.
From the top attractions to the most frequently asked questions, our guide has all you need to plan your next visit.
For 100 years, the Atlanta History Center and the High Museum of Art have expanded and diversified, not unlike the metropolis itself.
Emily Rauh Pulitzer, a veteran curator and collector, leans heavily on sculpture and drawing in a show of some 85 works.
After $724 million and a decade of battles, the pugnacious David Geffen Galleries reassert the city’s role as a petri dish for experimental design.
The Bay Area family made a deal with SFMOMA that called for exhibitions of the collection’s works every 10 years. Some 250 pieces are now showing.
The annual “Art in Bloom” exhibition began in 1976 and has spawned similar events at other museums across the country.
The 40,000-square-foot space, housed in a former dairy barn, aims to upend expectations of what an art museum can be.
The mural, which surrounds a construction site, is part of an effort to decorate unsightly sidewalk sheds.
The artist Klara Hodsnedlova inaugurates OMA’s soaring new atrium stairway at the New Museum.
A self-taught topiary artist, he discovered a talent for carving trees and shrubs into extraordinary shapes, creating a world-famous garden in a tiny South Carolina town.
Texans spend a lot of time in their cars. But once a year, they converge at the Art Car Parade to celebrate those who transform rundown vehicles into masterpieces on wheels.
She gave New York debuts to artists like Cecilia Bartoli and Peter Serkin, and introduced new music by Philip Glass and others.
The Rev. Marko Ivan Rupnik has installed mosaics across the Roman Catholic world, including at the Vatican. After nuns accused him of abuse, some want his work removed.
A new exhibition explores Renaissance views on what is attractive and what is hideous, and how one can’t exist without the other.
Ann Hamilton, known for conceptual art installations, embraces a new era with scanner photography at the Cleveland Museum — and finds a tactile tenderness.
Our critic Jason Farago shares what you shouldn’t miss in a city undergoing a palpable cultural renewal.
The art museum will close to the public in March 2027 to replace its aging tram system and modernize some galleries.
Melissa Chiu is stepping down as director of the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington to lead the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Nailya Allakhverdiyeva tried compromising with the authorities so she could continue showing contemporary art. But the intimidation didn’t end.
Marcel Duchamp flipped the notion of art’s value on its head. We need foundation-shaking badly today, our critic says, and a sweeping survey at MoMA is an arresting reminder.
Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel are terrific in Steven Soderbergh’s sharp-eyed take on art and money.
Find timeworn architecture, tea ceremonies, modern dining and a world-class circus beneath a bamboo dome on Vietnam’s central coast.
Plus: a Milan hotel in a 19th-century mansion, summery, New England-inspired cushions and more recommendations from T Magazine.
The Acquavella Galleries in Manhattan offer more than 50 works, many from private collections. The show caps a surge of exhibitions on the great painter.
Two decades in the making, the David Geffen Galleries will offer an unconventional approach to art history and cement the director Michael Govan’s legacy.
An immersion in the wide-ranging work of a photographer who has died at 85.
Las autoridades se apresuraron a asegurar a los mexicanos que una colección de estimadas obras de arte regresaría en 2028. Un testamento pocas veces visto podría aclarar los deseos de la coleccionista.
Officials scrambled to reassure Mexicans that a collection of esteemed artworks would return by 2028. A rarely-seen will may clarify the collector’s wishes.
Decades after his death, he continues to influence contemporary artists. Here are four — of many — who have riffed on his urinal sculpture “Fountain.”
Marcel Duchamp’s original “Fountain” sculpture vanished within days of its 1917 appearance. He later introduced these versions in response to demand.
Marcel Duchamp changed the face of culture in the 20th century, and beyond, with an unconventional sculpture that challenged how we think of art.
We’d like you to look at one piece of art for 10 minutes, uninterrupted.
A judge ruled against a holding company controlled by David Nahmad, the billionaire art dealer, which had bought the work at auction in 1996.
Known for his hallucinatory canvases of otherworldly structures, he cemented his fame with a hand-shaped chair that was both a work of art and a pop culture curio.
The impish but thoughtful James Grashow, his sculpture and his long marriage are the subjects of Cindy Meehl’s film.
This week in Newly Reviewed, Travis Diehl covers Pat Oleszko’s burlesque street theater, Paul Chan’s inflatables, David Armstrong’s calm curiosity and Torbjorn Rodland’s subtle awkwardness.
Sus representaciones de la vida cotidiana en Oaxaca fueron aclamadas internacionalmente y despertaron la admiración de un Rockefeller. Continuó con su arte incluso después de perder la vista.
A new exhibit at the Met highlights Iba Ndiaye’s myriad influences from across the globe, but ultimately his work was all his own.
The Frick gathers 25 works by the painter Thomas Gainsborough, a visual compendium of the social biggies in British society.
Her sculpted figurines were hailed as exemplars of folk art, drawing a Rockefeller’s admiration. She continued her artistry even after losing her eyesight.
The visual historian and celebrated author of “Low Life” has two shows of recent artwork made from decades of gathering materials, a trove she slices and glues.
Los retratos de mascotas por encargo existen desde hace siglos, pero ahora están llegando a un público más amplio.
Lynch Fragments, a series of abstract steel sculptures he created starting in 1963, evoked the long, devastating history of violence against Black Americans.
The drawings, now on display at Manhattan University, were found in a house in Westchester County.
Thieves stole three paintings by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse from the Magnani-Rocca Foundation in Mamiano, Italy.
En tres minutos, los ladrones entraron a la Fundación Magnani-Rocca, a las afueras de Parma, Italia, y se llevaron cuadros valorados en millones, dijeron las autoridades.
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.
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.
