With Diller Scofidio + Renfro, he brought a conceptual-art sensibility to cultural landmarks like Lincoln Center and to innovative public spaces like Manhattan’s High Line.
Long famous as the birthplace of paella, Valencia offers 300 days of sunshine, exuberant architecture and wide swaths of urban green spaces. And with artists, designers and digital nomads moving in, its cultural scene and gastronomy are soaring.
Doechii, Michelle Yeoh, Dev Patel and more stars mingled with fashion’s celebrities at the first fashion-fabulous Grand Dîner du Louvre.
Barry Joule says his friend Francis Bacon gave him a trove of sketches and paintings. Some experts aren’t so sure.
La presentación de la artista del performance en Ciudad de México pareció más bien transaccional y no se relacionó de forma significativa con la historia de la casa, el legado de Barragán o México.
The museum has suffered from rising costs and lower attendance. The cuts followed those at the Brooklyn Museum, which trimmed 10 percent of its staff this month.
Tras retirarse de Hollywood, Hackman pasó sus últimas décadas pintando y escribiendo novelas en lo que parecía una vida plena con su esposa Betsy Arakawa.
Mr. Hackman, who was found dead with his wife and one of their dogs, had written novels and painted since leaving Hollywood behind for retirement in New Mexico.
Tucked away near the White House is a tribute to the environmental agency and its history — for the time being, anyway.
To celebrate the launch of the new home goods brand Anut, its founder hosted dinner and dancing at one of Egypt’s most storied buildings.
With a major expansion by OMA debuting this fall, the museum reopens with a landmark exhibition featuring 150 artists, and tackles timely questions about technological change.
At Bortolami Gallery, a star of the 2019 Whitney Biennial takes down the fourth wall between art and exhibition.
The space is a window into the mind of the pioneering artist, who saved nearly everything.
From influential platforms, Mr. Turski, an Auschwitz survivor from Poland, warned the world of rising antisemitism and the perils of indifference to it.
For years, lawmakers tried to turn Polish cultural institutions conservative. Now, the revamped Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw wants to avoid getting drawn into politics.
The performance artist Marina Abramovic celebrated the announcement of a new cultural center in a private home designed by the famed Mexican architect Luis Barragán.
The head of a griffin from 7th century B.C. is believed to have been taken from a museum in Olympia in the 1930s and later sold on the art market.
The New York Amsterdam News, which was founded 115 years ago and has published civil rights leaders, will convert most of its Harlem building into a museum and community space.
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 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.