A team of French and German architects has been selected for the project, which is expected to increase the Paris museum’s capacity by three million visitors a year.
The performers of a Met Opera production about Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera have been promoting the show in decidedly unoperatic places, including a cemetery.
The language had been removed from wall text in the National Portrait Gallery, but it’s back as the museum unveiled changes to its exhibition on U.S. presidents.
For some watch fans, the Royal Pop was a royal letdown.
In need of good times that don’t cost a dime? You’re in luck: As the weather heats up, the opportunities to have free fun are everywhere in the city. Here are some of our favorites.
Combinando una casa colonial y un añadido contemporáneo, el nuevo Museo del Cacao y el Chocolate se asienta sobre un espeluznante recuerdo azteca.
Beginning in 2028, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will own the Neue’s Fifth Avenue home and the prestige collection of 20th-century Austrian and German art built by Ronald S. Lauder.
A new room in the Musée d’Orsay’s permanent display includes 13 pieces that were recovered from Germany and Austria after World War II and whose provenance is unknown.
In an exception to the usual paintings-heavy blockbuster exhibitions, the Art Institute of Chicago is presenting the masterful drawings of Willem de Kooning.
Over three decades, Sigg, a Swiss businessman and former diplomat, amassed thousands of contemporary Chinese works. Ai Weiwei calls him “my maker.”
Although Galka Scheyer might an unfamiliar name, the artists she championed have become famous. A exhibition in Pasadena brings her to the foreground.
A novel cigarette tax has generated $270 million for cultural organizations in the Cleveland area, which makes declining smoking rates “a double-edged sword.”
The creation, care and keeping of creatures is a responsibility the last full-time museum taxidermist in the U.S. takes both seriously and joyfully.
El inmueble del número 3 de la calle Savile Row, donde el cuarteto también grabó el álbum “Let It Be” se abrirá al público el año que viene.
The townhouse at 3 Savile Row, where the band also recorded “Let It Be,” will open to the public next year, the group’s record label said.
Combining a colonial house and a contemporary addition, the new Museum of Cacao & Chocolate sits on a grisly Aztec souvenir.
The statue has long drawn fans to the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, but now it’s inside, anchoring an exhibition that investigates race, activism and violence.
Imágenes y momentos importantes de la trayectoria del que quizá sea el naturalista más célebre del mundo.
Pictures and striking scenes from the making of perhaps the world’s most celebrated naturalist.
“Angelus Novus,” an artwork with a fascinating back story, including most recently a wartime delay, is a late addition to an already impressive Klee survey at the Jewish Museum.
The troubled painter Matthew Wong’s star was on the rise when he died at 35. His mother, Monita Wong, is making sure his work can still be seen.
President Emmanuel Macron has long called the restitution of African art from French museums a priority. Experts say the new law is a seismic moment in that effort.
“Double Exposures,” the first museum survey for the artist, highlights a career spent documenting New Yorkers, in ways both traditional and strange.
With “Costume Art,” the dress department moves out of the basement to become the gateway to the museum.
A world-class art museum and an impressive network of cycling trails continue to expand in this northwest Arkansas town.
The Ministry of Awe, a new immersive experience in a former bank in Philadelphia, aims to help locate the wondrous in the everyday.
The Trump administration has eliminated more than 350,000 federal jobs. But an annual effort to inspire talented people to serve the public continues.
After 42 years of slavery, Josiah Henson escaped to Canada, where he wrote a memoir, founded a school and led others to freedom. But his home long bore the name “Uncle Tom,” to the offense of many.
Guests at the Met Gala had different interpretations of the night’s dress code.
The African Art in Venice Forum is continuing its mission of addressing the continent’s artistic needs, even as it mourns the loss of Koyo Kouoh, a key supporter.
Here are five ways to explore the energetic Irish capital without spending a fortune. Free music and storytelling play a role.
Stars wore feathers, jewels and bubbles at the Met Gala in outfits inspired by the dress code, “fashion is art.” The fund-raiser drew $42 million.
The model’s trompe l’oeil outfit would have been equally at home at one of her Halloween parties.
Hay una campaña anti-Bezos en las calles de Nueva York donde han descrito el acto como la “Gala Amazon Prime” o el “Baile de Bezos”.
The company she started in 1969 with her husband, Don, grew from a single store selling jeans and records to a $16 billion brand that remade the apparel industry.
The benefit for the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art raked in $31 million last year. Critics say it celebrates wealth and celebrity.
The document, purchased in a private sale for an undisclosed amount, will be on view in New York for the 250th anniversary of American independence.
Protesters have found a perfect foil in Amazon’s founder, the gala’s lead sponsor this year.
The latest Costume Institute exhibition expands its ideas of who, exactly, belongs in fashion. Will the gala follow suit?
Una de las presencias más esperadas es la de Beyoncé. Es copresidenta junto con Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams y la directora de contenidos de Condé Nast, Anna Wintour.
The real-life Met Gala vs. the one onscreen.
An exhibition of works by Francisco de Zurbarán at London’s National Gallery highlights the painter’s ability to draw in the viewer with detail and drama.
The race to near-weightlessness has been a driving force of innovation in running sneakers and helped lead to records shattering at the London Marathon.
Barack and Michelle Obama commissioned 30 artists to create work for their campus, which starts visitor previews next week on the South Side of Chicago.
After 10 years away from the event, the superstar will return as a co-chair on Monday. Here’s what she has worn to her seven past gala appearances.
That’s “meta” with a lowercase m, by the way. After a weekslong promotional blitz for “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” the scene on Monday may feel very familiar.
The Metropolitan Museum and the party that has supported its fashion wing may be entering a new era.
An exhibition at the Louvre shows how the two artists, working centuries apart, found common ground in the vital force of rough-hewed textures.
Standing near dozens of repatriated artifacts, officials from the countries celebrated efforts that have led to the return of thousands of artworks to Italy.
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.
After attending a ceremony at the memorial in Lower Manhattan, the royal couple is scheduled to visit a Harlem nonprofit, the New York Public Library’s main branch and Christie’s.
The museum’s top fashion curator offers an up-close look at garments featured in the show, which argues that clothing is a connective thread throughout art.
Chevy Humphrey explains why the scientific method matters in business.
The Brooklyn Children’s Museum has reimagined a beloved and bygone local rink for its “Empire Skate of Mind” events. Neighborhood kids, many skating for the first time, are lacing up.
For many visitors to these European museums, the acts of those who opposed Nazism and Fascism have become newly relevant.
In the onetime Confederate capital, history is being told with newfound clarity.
The Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, long a home for cinephiles, doubled attendance by repositioning itself as a community hub.
Why petty theft might be the new political protest.
Two art exhibitions examining hypermasculine online content and its impact argue that sensitivity and vulnerability are also manly virtues.
After losing her legs, a New York Times food writer began to feel like a tourist in her home city. So, facing her fears, she met it like one.
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).
The large contribution from the billionaire collector Mitchell P. Rales is enabling long-term loans to smaller museums in perpetuity.
Lynda Roscoe Hartigan is returning to the museum as its leader after previously serving as its chief curator.
What to know about this year’s celebration, including the return of a superstar last seen on the Met carpet 10 years ago.
Acclaimed overseas for defying censors, Lou Ye is more interested in reaching Chinese audiences, as he holds up a cinematic mirror to their lives in modern China.
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.
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.
