After President Trump put in new leadership at the National Archives, the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library in Atlanta abruptly canceled several events.
In a show at the New York Historical, Arlene Gottfried carries on the tradition of Arbus and Winogrand in the ’70s and ’80s, but with unalloyed sympathy for her subjects.
Set within Canada’s oldest national park, Banff offers skiing and other activities, a vibrant cultural scene and mountain views everywhere you look.
The photographer discusses Alice Neel, Walker Evans and the horror intrinsic to the American landscape.
Foreign institutions and collectors are returning artifacts with deep spiritual meaning for Cambodians. Where and how to display them remain open questions.
The cuts affected five probationary employees, a relative said. The Trump administration has targeted such workers for firing across the federal government.
A new book focuses on the desperate letters written by many Jews seeking refuge in the Netherlands but who were denied entry after it closed its border in 1938.
The museum dropped a legal effort to block the seizure of the statue by investigators who said the bronze, thought by some to be of Marcus Aurelius, had been stolen.
The performance portion of “Edges of Ailey” at the Whitney Museum of American Art was best when it stepped away from tradition.
The 2,000-year-old basilica was “once the beating heart of Roman London,” the Museum of London Archaeology said.
In a major show at the Whitney, Christine Sun Kim shines light on Deaf culture and measures sonic experience beyond the ear.
According to a new exhibition in Amsterdam, centuries of human intervention turned the animal into “a wool-producing machine with ears and eyes.”
Despite its population of five million, Guadalajara, Mexico’s second city, can feel like a village — one that's packed with art and architecture, walkable neighborhoods, and thrilling food options.
The Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, home to the Tyrannosaurus rex holotype and a famous Diplodocus, will benefit from Carole and Daniel Kamin’s donation.
A newly restored film adaptation of Amiri Baraka’s provocative 1964 play evoking racial and sexual anxiety is showing at the Museum of Modern Art.
Billy Idol, the Black Crowes and Maná will also appear on the ballot for the first time, alongside Oasis, Joe Cocker, Mariah Carey and others.
Plus, who isn’t in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Somaya Critchlow, 31, is showing her provocative paintings alongside a storied collection that includes work by Rubens, van Dyck and Velázquez.
The always colorful males light up with biofluorescence, sending off signals.
The Pulitzer-prize winning writer and essayist talks about his love of art and how he reconciles two challenging roles.
A jury found them guilty of conspiring as part of a crew to steal art, sports memorabilia and artifacts from smaller museums.
En 1934, dos jóvenes artistas viajaron de Los Ángeles a México en un auto destartalado para crear una poderosa obra de arte sobre la represión. Después cayó en el olvido.
Gov. Kathy Hochul has proposed to earmark $400 million to revitalize the capital of New York, where poverty rates are high and the downtown is moribund.
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.
Coltrane, a jazz virtuoso who devoted much of her life to a spiritual journey, is a beacon for today’s artists. An exhibition at the Hammer Museum shows why.
A major Dutch museum is staging a huge exhibition of American photography that explores the tension between how the United States would like to see itself, and how it really looks.
The first major U.S. exhibition of Germany’s great Romantic painter is a historic showcase. It’s also a blueprint for how to think, and how to feel, in a changing environment.
St. Petersburg can come as a surprise to visitors expecting malls and subdivisions. There are beautiful beaches, yes, but also a museum with Salvadore Dalí’s early works and a bar that encourages dogs to come with their owners.
“Trace/s,” an exhibition at the Center for Brooklyn History, highlights the borough’s neglected story of slavery — and the Black genealogists helping to unearth it.
“Rogues and Scholars,” James Stourton’s erudite and authoritative history, doesn’t spare the color.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art also announced a new batch of co-hosts for its splashy fashion fund-raiser including Simone Biles, Ayo Edebiri, Usher and Doechii.
In perhaps the quirkiest election in sports, seven officials are vying for the powerful position of president of the International Olympic Committee.
The artist, who died at 85, used Indigenous imagery like the canoe and the buffalo the way Warhol used soup cans.
In 1934, two young artists drove from Los Angeles in a beat-up car to Mexico, to create a powerful artwork about repression. It was concealed — and then forgotten.
The police said they had yet to recover the golden helmet of Cotofenesti, a prized artifact from Romania, and other artifacts stolen from the Drents Museum in the Netherlands over the weekend.
He found beauty in the prosaic: bars, phone booths, hamburger joints, barber shops — first in a downtrodden Paterson, then throughout the state and beyond.
The museum’s move followed a similar one last week by the National Gallery, as museums try to comply with an executive order that called diversity programs “illegal and immoral.”
The society faced financial challenges that were exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. Its nearly 600,000 items stretch back before the Gold Rush.
In the Cretaceous period, a shark or another kind of fish found sea lilies less than digestible. What you might expect followed.
President Emmanuel Macron announced plans to alleviate crowds at the Paris museum and to charge higher fees for visitors from outside the European Union.
The Museum of Modern Art has worked on a meticulous restoration of Chaplin’s 1918 film “Shoulder Arms,” screening on Thursday, that likely differs in every frame from what viewers have seen.
Martin Kimani, a former Kenyan diplomat, said his past work positions him to build on the Africa Center’s diverse programming that goes beyond art.
The show, which opens on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, recreates the annex where Anne and her family hid from the Nazis.
With major gifts to leading arts institutions, Oscar L. Tang and Agnes Hsu‐Tang have recently landed in the center of New York cultural philanthropy.
World leaders and a dwindling group of survivors joined in a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp by the Red Army.
The police said the golden helmet of Cotofenesti, a highly regarded artifact from Romania, was among the items stolen from the Drents Museum in the Netherlands.
Japanese collectors spent billions on European paintings during the bubble economy of the 1980s. Officials today hope to inspire a new generation of art lovers.
The National Gallery of Art said it had closed its office of belonging and inclusion to comply with a presidential order.
The most visited museum in the world is wooing a new crowd by injecting glamorous new cool into its fustiest department.
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.