The country’s culture minister cites new evidence, including the account of a reformed looter, to assert that numerous artifacts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art were stolen from ancient sites.
The newly opened Museum at The Times, on the 15th floor of the Times Building in New York, is filled with curios and artifacts that date back 170 years.
The museum’s decision to replace its program for volunteer educators with one that “responds to issues of class and income equity” has drawn criticism.
The artist, who died last year, used collage and fabric to break out of painting’s confines. Now her works are on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
There’s more to see than Ferrari and Lamborghini, and three museums in the country’s automotive heartland offer a deeper look.
Knobkerry was a shop and gallery where Ornette Coleman hung out and Janis Joplin shopped. It is the subject of a new book and related exhibition.
The long-awaited Academy Museum of Motion Pictures recognizes many of those who worked behind the scenes and comes to terms with Hollywood’s past.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is using modern technology to stir appreciation for ancient artistry — including an Athenian potter’s transformative “discovery” of red.
Inspired by photos of dancers, 29 works by Kristine Mays celebrate the enslaved people who once toiled on such properties.
From Iceland to Arkansas, residency programs have found creative ways to reinvent themselves.
The “Salem Witch Trials: Reckoning and Reclaiming” exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum draws parallels between the country’s most infamous example of mass hysteria and current culture.
From New York to Los Angeles, Black, L.G.B.T.Q., Native American and women artists are exhibiting works that highlight their communities and personal perspectives.
Museums are less interested in adding to the terror than furthering the connection to the planet.
Among the surprises in a new exhibition at the Chicago History Museum: streets paved with wood, an unusual heat wave and exoneration for Mrs. O’Leary’s cow.
With thousands of artifacts, a New Orleans museum tells of a different immigrant experience, far from the cities of the North.
The Denver Art Museum, responsive, interactive and fashion-conscious, transforms its headquarters into the institution that current-day curators dream of.
The Guggenheim will show the work of the conceptual artist who probes questions of identity.
The work and struggle by Jamel Robinson and other artists is part of the “African American Art in the 20th Century” exhibition at the Hudson River Museum.
A collector’s keen eye — and willingness to knock on a stranger’s door — led to the rediscovery of a sculpture by a renowned stone carver, William Edmondson.
Designing a show at the Jewish Museum in New York has illuminated corners of hidden history in her life, the architect says. “Edmund dug into his past. I didn’t. I couldn’t bear it.”
For half a century, she has taken the things we know best — our bodies, our rituals, our nation — and shown us how strange they really are.
The director, an eminence of American and African indie cinema, is being recognized by the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and Netflix. But he has long rejected the industry.
Selections from the current Weekend section, including a review of “Succession.”
These 10 standout artists — from Colombia to Egypt to Japan — redrew the map of Surrealism, the 20th century’s most provocative art movement. They and dozens more are reunited at the Metropolitan Museum.
Months of closures during the pandemic have caused financial havoc for art venues, and many expect to be strapped for years. At the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the virus’s impact is clear.
The artist’s approach to the Black female form is rich with pleasure, but also looks beyond it.
Mehretu is one of seven new trustees who have been added over the past year and the third artist in the board’s history, after Chuck Close and Fred Wilson.
Meg Onli will join the Los Angeles museum as director and curator, co-leading with Cristina Pacheco. Onli’s priority: spending time in Arlington Heights.
As a curator at MoMA and then a professor at Princeton, he pushed museums and art historians to take photography seriously.
Many organizations are now trying to reach wider and younger audiences, and to tackle topics beyond the Holocaust.
In the wake of an election, pandemic, protest movement, extreme climate and rising debt ceilings, MoMA PS1 comes back with a cautious display of art.
Some 60 celebrated landscapes are part of a rehang at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Don’t pass them by: They are demanding to the eye and mind alike.
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures was over budget and years behind schedule, and some feared it would be a flop. Its new director, Bill Kramer, helped get it back on track.
The museum’s board will be led by the financier J. Tomilson Hill and joined by the poet Claudia Rankine.
The American Rescue Plan Act, with its $87.8 million in funding, will support projects at nearly 300 cultural and educational institutions in the country.
While the cinematic objects on display fascinate, the much-delayed institution opens with an emphasis on diversity and pluralism, not past and present sins.
The Los Angeles artist, with her crazy titles and caustic colors, offers “a really provocative combination of pleasure and politics,” says one museum curator.
The subject is one of the gravest topics in art history. I came for the lost stories of Jewish collectors. Where were they?
The Russian Revolution split the Morozov collection, but a colossal diplomatic effort has brought it back together in Paris. This exhibition is legitimately historic.
For decades, researchers at Yale and elsewhere have questioned the authenticity of a map that seemed to reflect Viking travels to North America. The school now says the case is closed.
Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually and in person in New York City.
The Musée des Arts Décoratifs is the latest stop for an exhibition of more than 150 of the designer’s eye-popping creations.
Three years after returning two stone sculptures, the museum has decided to give back another artwork to Nepal, this one thought to have been stolen from a temple in the Kathmandu Valley.
The project has been bogged down by legal challenges and a federal review. Barack Obama’s presidential papers won’t actually be housed there — they’ll be digitized, another point of contention.
The restoration of a statue the artist created for his own tomb shines light on the psychology of the aging Renaissance master.
Broadway is back and so too are the Tony Awards. Here’s more on the ceremony and other recommendations for the weekend.
The graphic designer Milton Glaser died one year ago on Saturday.
The storage facility of the Cranbrook Academy of Art, in the unlikely enclave of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., is a treasure trove of iconic objects.
With the help of gallery owners, patrons, collectors and artists, T explores some of the complications behind an obvious question.
Sotheby’s announced last month that it would auction a “lost library” of English literature, including a rare cache of Brontë material. Take a look at some of the rarities.
Here's why the rock star has been on our minds.
How a crisis can help us rethink space and reimagine the future.
Crosscurrents of religion and culture shaped this stunningly detailed portrait of the 17th-century Mughal emperor who built the Taj Mahal.
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Months ago, our architecture critic invited a few people to suggest modest strolls around places meaningful to them. Here’s where they went.
Wander down Doyers Street and then discover the monuments, parks and restaurants that have shaped the neighborhood for 150 years.
How Benjamin West remade a bloody battle as a founding romance.
I’ve become obsessed with Thomas Eakins’s “The Gross Clinic.” Let me show you why.
A consideration of artworks that ask the question: What world will we find on the other side of this?
A new director wants to reshape a leading Warsaw art space to show conservative works and challenge left-wing positions.
Residents, staff and donors hope the Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College will provide a cross section of contemporary art as layered as Sarasota itself.
Employees were laid off after moving to unionize. Now a union is filing a charge at the National Labor Relations Board.
The Johann Christian Oerter rifle, taken from Valley Forge State Park in 1971, will go on display at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia.
Museums in the Netherlands are ditching historical terms and names, and updating their collections as they grapple with the legacy of slavery and colonialism.
At the National Museum of Mathematics, origami helps bridge the gap between art and math and finds the beauty in both.
Sandy Schreier is the most important American collector of couture you’ve never heard of.
Scientists reported the discovery in Australia of a plant-eating species, 35 years after a miner brought fossils to a museum in Sydney.
The painter Jordan Casteel discusses her favorite artwork and the affinity she feels for its creator.
Mmuseumm (yes, the spelling is unusual) displays collections of small objects in a very small space. Its curator says they tell important stories.
Mrs. Wrightsman, who had no formal training, became a connoisseur of 18th-century French art and a significant donor to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The curator oversees the fashion exhibits that influence the annual Met Gala. He often travels internationally for research, and always carries a Moleskine notebook to jot down ideas.
Giovanni Battista Moroni, long overlooked, is the new Renaissance face at the Frick Collection.
Diane and Arthur Abbey have around Japanese 300 baskets, a selection of which coexist peacefully with work by Calder, de Kooning and Joseph Cornell.
The American Alliance of Museums says that after the Notre-Dame fire, donors may want to consider support for museum infrastructure.
A two-phase project is expected to begin in January 2020. When it’s complete, visitors will have access to Isamu Noguchi’s studio at an expanded campus.
Tuesday: Citi Bike removed 1,000 pedal-assist bikes after riders reported accidents.
The museum said that it was “deeply concerned” about renting the space for an event to honor someone whose environmental policies had been widely criticized.
These enamel bowls from Turkey add a pop of color to your meal.
Monday: Shuttered in 1945, the station has remained largely off limits to the public and has been all but lost to generations of subway riders.
Courtney J. Martin will direct the Yale Center for British Art, the museum and research institution housed in a renowned Louis Kahn building.
A new exhibition of the German painter Emil Nolde shows that rather than being a victim of Hitler’s regime, he was an enthusiastic supporter.
The return of ancestors and artifacts can become a form of restorative justice.
A reader praises a solution offered by the American Museum of Natural History.
The war and its human toll had a profound impact on artists addressing the turbulent times. The personal and political meet in a poignant show at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
High culture comes to Hudson Yards, while pop music takes over the Met.
Stacy C. Hollander, deputy director for curatorial affairs, chief curator and director of exhibitions, is leaving at the end of June, the museum said.
Italy’s police art theft squad has recovered two dozen precious jewels. But investigators still wonder who was behind the audacious theft.
Sonya Clark, a social practice artist, unfurls a handmade version of a Confederate truce flag and asks, ‘What if …”
The Sehuencas water frogs in a Bolivian aquarium hit it off, but Romeo might need a little more practice before they succeed in reproducing.
Controversy over a new spider species has resurrected thorny ethical questions about scientists and their specimens.
At new museums, the past is finally becoming more than the story of men and wars.
A dance company celebrates the 19th amendment and a play about Rupert Murdoch hits Broadway.
An art critic and dance critic talk about two Kirstein shows — and how his protean diversity left its mark on the arts, most productively on ballet.
The building designed by the architect Jean Nouvel has been praised worldwide, but its focus is first and foremost a local one, the museum’s chairwoman said.
Some 35 contemporary artists are donating pieces to the auction, which will take place in New York in May.
From Poe’s tiny cottage to a museum about a historic black community, New York City’s boroughs are full of hidden treasures.
Raising the profile of public art at Madison Square Park, Brooke Kamin Rapaport will now bring it to the United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
The Russian government celebrates the writer Ivan Turgenev even though it scorns many of his negative views of his homeland and his embrace of Western, liberal values.
With storage spaces filled with works that may never be shown, some museums are rethinking the way they collect art, and at least one is ranking what it owns.
A fitting shrine for Basquiat: A trophy art museum shows off a painter who felt he had been commodified.