
In Philadelphia, Art Shows by Women Teem With Eros and Audacity
Devotees of the human figure, Cecily Brown and Christina Ramberg turn the Benjamin Franklin Parkway into a showplace for the female gaze.
Devotees of the human figure, Cecily Brown and Christina Ramberg turn the Benjamin Franklin Parkway into a showplace for the female gaze.
An ambitious citywide exhibition will feature 20 public art commissions at outdoor venues and partnering museums.
The Miami Children’s Museum marks the moment with an exhibition that includes Snoopy, Lucy and more that will travel across the country for almost a decade.
The new show at the Hirshhorn Museum, “Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen,” plumbs the past, the idea of presence and the possibilities of what painting could be.
Henry Clay Frick, aggressive in art collecting as well as business, acquired many of the masterpieces of the museum, whose renovated Fifth Avenue mansion recently reopened.
A New York judge found that the Art Institute of Chicago’s drawing by Egon Schiele had been looted from an Austrian Jew who died in a concentration camp.
This year’s nominees for the prestigious art award include Mohammed Sami, an Iraqi painter, and Zadie Xa, a Canadian installation artist.
As the artist in residence at the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics, Judith Schaechter created a giant dome to spark joy. It’s now on view outside Philadelphia.
New additions to Adriana Varejão’s acclaimed “Plate” series are showing at the Hispanic Society Museum and Library, in her first solo museum exhibit in New York.
Stranded astronauts and celebrity space tourism have piqued interest in space — and a photography exhibition in the museum is making the most of it.
Leaders at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and others say their core mission of elevating Black voices will not change.
A science museum in the city looks back at the history of feeding children in schools and reminds us how fraught the efforts have been for more than 100 years.
Set in the heart of Silicon Valley, the Computer History Museum long cheered the developments around it. Now, it’s taking a more nuanced approach.
Rising sea levels are forcing the Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut to address the long-term sustainability of its campus.
Photography and portraiture are at the center of exhibitions this spring and beyond, examining their forms and themes and the people behind them.
An upcoming exhibition at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles and an earlier one at the Witte Museum in San Antonio reveal the roles of Black cowboys in the early American West.
Across the United States, younger curators work to broaden audiences and redefine not only what an exhibition can be but also what an artwork is.
The book by F. Scott Fitzgerald is the subject of exhibitions in New York, Minnesota, New Jersey and South Carolina.
The pope visited the city in 2015, making stops that included Madison Square Garden, Central Park and a Harlem school.
Denver hosts the first U.S. museum survey of Kent Monkman, a member of the Fisher River Cree Nation whose large paintings are inspired in part by old masters.
In 1999 Ann Craven lost nearly everything in a studio fire. Since then, she has made “revisitation” paintings. Next month, these works will be shown across Maine.
At 82, the widely admired artist is getting the higher level of recognition she has sought for decades.
A show now at the Seattle Art Museum is the largest in the U.S. in the 40-year career of the renowned Chinese artist.
The 19th-century Old Courthouse, part of the city’s downtown and Gateway Arch National Park, is set to reopen in May after a $27.5 million renovation.
In a letter to Vice President JD Vance, four U.S. representatives on a committee that oversees the cultural institution urged him to reject President Trump’s push to reshape it.
As Thelma Golden and Lisa Phillips put finishing touches on their expanded buildings, they assess their legacies, and the cultural shift ahead.
The Uptown Rhythm Festival will mix styles, including tap, swing and flamenco, that are flourishing despite problems of rehearsal and performance space.
Recientemente se ha determinado que el artista pintó su última obra, “Raíces de árbol”, en Auvers-sur-Oise. Las raíces aún existen, lo que ha provocado una lucha por su conservación.
She and Steve Wynn were known as the king and queen of Las Vegas. After their divorce, Ms. Wynn became a force in her own right.
The artist’s first major museum survey fills Frank Lloyd Wright’s spiral with a rich mix of media, a view of the polymathic flux of a 25-year career, and a sense of healing.
Carlos Basualdo, a veteran curator who has spent most of his career at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, will take over the Nasher Sculpture Center next month.
The Grand Egyptian Museum, outside Cairo, has been delayed by revolutions, wars, financial crises and a pandemic. At long last, here’s a look inside.
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It was recently determined that the artist painted his final work, “Tree Roots,” in Auvers-sur-Oise. The roots still exist, igniting a fight over their preservation.
As storms and fires are on the rise, experts are under pressure to do more to protect collections in museums, galleries and even private homes from destruction.
Along the Manhattan skyline, Jennie C. Jones turns Minimalist sculptures into sonic ‘wind’ instruments. It’s the last Roof Garden commission until 2030.
An artist finds there’s more to admire if you approach everything in a museum with an eye for things beyond the art.
Step into the artist’s fantastical “Empathic Universe” at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, where everything seems moving and alive.
To heal a nation, the U.S. Pavilion in Venice showcases the surprising permutations of the porch.
To heal a nation, the U.S. Pavilion in Venice showcases the surprising permutations of the porch.
Pierre Terjanian, the museum’s current chief of curatorial affairs and conservation, will start in his new role in July.
A patron saw the beauty in graffiti when most of the world thought it was mere nuisance. Now the writing (of Lee Quiñones, Rammellzee, Futura and others) is on the museum wall.
A huge new exhibition at the Louis Vuitton Foundation is a late-career retrospective with a sense of new beginnings.
The group argues that efforts to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services imperil the nation’s libraries and violate the law.
For years, my friend’s father asked me to recount his childhood escape from the Nazis. Why did it take me this long?
As the Trump administration pulls government websites and data offline, it is selectively stripping away the public record, letting the president declare his own version of history, archivists and historians said.
Kevin Young, who has led the National Museum of African American History and Culture since 2021, went on leave before the president criticized the institution in an executive order.
Kevin Young, who has led the National Museum of African American History and Culture since 2021, went on leave before the president criticized the institution in an executive order.
In a lawsuit, 21 state attorneys general argued that the steep cuts to the Institute of Museum and Library Services violate the Constitution and other federal laws related to spending.
Vermeer’s masterpiece and many other important artworks survived Nazi looting and destruction with the help of hideaways and some clever diplomacy.
As the artist’s posthumous retrospective opens at SFMOMA, a reporter visits her family home and studio in Noe Valley, the center of her pioneering sculpture practice.
His candid black-and-white images, prosaic yet provocative, captured the faces of a wide range of New Yorkers. He also took occasional side trips to the West.
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The president’s executive order demanding change at the institution presents a perilous test for Lonnie G. Bunch III, its secretary, whom the White House calls a partisan Democrat.
The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the greatest contemporary art.
A show at the Met offers a feminist revision of Chinoiserie, a decorative style that swept through Europe in the age of empires and seeded stereotypes of Asian women.
On California’s Central Coast, three storybook enclaves draw visitors with dramatic cliffs, sandy beaches, zany architecture and more.
They’re the great cinematic landscape in stories as diverse as “Familiar Touch,” about dementia, and “Timestamp,” about Ukrainian schoolchildren.
The National Endowment for the Humanities, which supports museums, scholarship and historical sites, could see grants curtailed and staffing slashed by up to 80 percent.
A joyous reunion for art lovers at the Frick Collection’s gala offered a private viewing of iconic works from the 14th through the 19th centuries.
Textile weavers, tassel-makers, lighting restorers, cabinet makers and muralists forged new traditions at the sumptuous Beaux-Arts museum.
His executive order faulted an exhibit which “promotes the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct,” a widely held position in the scientific community.
The exhibits were dedicated to the agency’s history. Mr. Zeldin said closing the collection would save $600,000 annually.
The staff of the independent Institute of Museum and Library Services, the largest source of federal funding for museums and libraries, were put on leave.
The museum hopes that after learning about the planet’s prehistoric past, people will do more to preserve Earth’s future.
Taken from a First Nation community in Canada, the shrine recently began a more than 3,000-mile journey back from the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
La orden del presidente pedía frenar la independencia de la extensa red de museos y la instaba a promover la “grandeza estadounidense”.
The president’s order called for curbing the independence of the sprawling network of museums and urging it to promote “American greatness.”
Members of the dance company Ballet Hispánico weren’t the only ones who swirled amid the art in the museum’s rotunda during a recent presentation and tango class.
The Museum of Modern Art in New York is promoting Christophe Cherix, the chief curator of its drawings and prints department. It will be his first time leading an institution.
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The president complained in an executive order that the Smithsonian had advanced “narratives that portray American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive.”
Just Stop Oil, the group that made headlines for high-profile stunts to protest use of fossil fuels, said it was ending protests in museums after achieving its initial demand.
Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East.
He was the chief architect of 1 World Trade Center, which soared in the wake of 9/11. As chairman of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, he left a mark on New York.
La cámara funeraria probablemente perteneció a un gobernante de una línea de reyes antaño perdida para la historia, dijeron los investigadores.
Over nearly six decades, this fantastically inventive artist experimented with paint, turning it into a sculptural medium. Our critic calls his survey “scintillating and sweeping.”
The burial chamber most likely belonged to a ruler in a line of kings once lost to history, researchers said. “It’s a new chapter in investigating this dynasty,” one noted.
Patrick Bringley stars in a version of his book, which tells how the Metropolitan Museum’s works of art helped him work through grief.
New museums, galleries and spruced-up parks counterbalance this Central European city’s classic architecture and thermal baths.
Some of the artist’s most psychologically insightful work came in the final years of his life — a mature period cut short by a pandemic.
The 33-foot Corsair, on loan from Florida, had to be “rigged up on skates” to get to the Intrepid’s hangar deck.
Broadway is almost back, and pop music tours and sports events are booming. But Hollywood, museums and other cultural sectors have yet to bounce back.
The museum, which faces a projected $10 million deficit, said it planned to cut more than a tenth of its employees and mount fewer exhibitions.
The society faced financial challenges that were exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. Its nearly 600,000 items stretch back before the Gold Rush.
The museum said it attracted more local visitors during the past year than it did before the pandemic, but only half the international visitors.
Although attendance remains down from prepandemic levels, the city’s arts groups are having some success getting audiences to return.
Uzodinma Iweala, chief executive of the Harlem institution, will leave at the end of 2024 after guiding it through pandemic years and securing funds.
The pandemic was tough on city centers and cultural institutions. What does that mean for Los Angeles, whose downtown depends on the arts?
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.
A storm, a pandemic, and Black Puerto Rican history pervade his work at MoMA PS 1, with materials sourced from daily life.
Letters on display at a small museum in Brooklyn were sent to the same address in Queens as where the comic book hero lived.
With attendance surging back, the museum wants to offer “a moment of pleasure” — and relieve that Mona Lisa problem.
The tower, next to the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, is doing something right; it's at 94 percent occupancy.
Plus Myanmar gets closer to Russia and a dire climate report.
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.
Denver has regained its prepandemic vibrancy, with a plethora of new restaurants and hotels, and the return of some old favorites.
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.”
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.