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Käthe Kollwitz’s fierce belief in social justice and her indelible images made her one of Germany’s best printmakers. A dazzling MoMA show reminds us why.
Käthe Kollwitz’s fierce belief in social justice and her indelible images made her one of Germany’s best printmakers. A dazzling MoMA show reminds us why.
Nicholas Cullinan will take over the London institution as it faces the fallout from a theft scandal and calls for the return of objects in its collection.
The museum, opened 34 years ago in a 19th-century building, will be refurbished and reimagined, the president of the foundation that operates it said.
Explore ancient caves, catch a concert in a former textile mill, feast on mangoes and go on a poetry crawl in this fast-changing Indian city.
The decision to find a “respectful final disposition” for human remains used for a 19th-century book comes amid growing scrutiny of their presence in museum collections.
An expansion designed by Diller, Scofidio + Renfro will add 55,000 square feet to an institution that has become a popular Los Angeles destination.
I’m a New York Times visual editor. Here are five things I’ve been looking at, reading, watching and listening to.
He was known as the Man of Steel. But the sculptor was also an eternal poet, reshaping our perception of space, says our critic.
For half a century, James Goldstein has been renovating a house by John Lautner. It’s a spectacular legacy. But like everything about Goldstein, it’s complicated.
The museum accuses Peter Higgs, a former keeper of Greek and Roman antiquities, of stealing or damaging at least 1,800 artifacts and selling many on eBay.
His tilted walls of rusting steel, monumental blocks and other immense and inscrutable forms created environments that had to be walked through, or around, to be fully experienced.
Centuries-old grave mounds in Illinois became a flashpoint in the debate over displaying Native American remains. Now, tribes are close to seeing them reburied.
Lucian Simmons is leaving Sotheby’s to lead the museum’s increased efforts to review its collection, which has recently returned looted artifacts, including dozens last year.
Kiyan Williams, for their Whitney Biennial commission, recreated the column-lined facade from soil. Viewers can watch as it crumbles, sprouts plants and births insects.
Eye-popping pieces are cropping up around Victoria Harbor this month, just in time for Art Basel Hong Kong.
The species seemed to have bug eyes and a smile, so a team of researchers named it Kermitops gratus in honor of the banjo-playing Muppet.
The spectacular South African city is shedding its Eurocentric identity and emerging as a culturally rich African hub.
In Natalie Dykstra’s hands, the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner is a tribute to the power of art.
Flora Steel, an art historian living in Rome, bought the brooch 36 years ago at an antiques fair. She realized its value only last year while watching YouTube.
A bounteous and playful survey of the 87-year-old artist’s career on the vanguard highway fills the museum and the Drawing Center.
Gender-based discrimination is central to the women-only art installation, in Australia, but one visitor claims it is also illegal.
The cache of artifacts was discovered in the attic of a veteran’s home after he died. The items were turned over to the F.B.I., which arranged for their return eight decades after the war.
Han pasado 34 años del mayor robo de arte de la historia y aún no aparece ni una sola de las 13 obras sustraídas. Las desconcertantes peculiaridades del caso siguen causando intriga.
Jerry Hal Saliterman threatened to release a sex tape of a woman if she told the F.B.I. about the theft of the famed red pumps, according to an indictment.
The organization behind the honors avoids electing artists in the year of their death, but the singer died in February just after this year’s vote closed.
Britain exported the architectural style to West Africa and India, but local practitioners adapted it for a different climate and a new kind of politics.
After 34 years, not one of the 13 works stolen during the largest art theft in history has surfaced but the puzzling peculiarities of the case still draw interest.
The ceramic artist Toshiko Takaezu is getting a posthumous reappraisal, thanks to her devoted acolytes — and major shows highlighting her poetic forms.
In the old New York Times headquarters, stained-glass panels adorned the editorial offices — and colored the place in more ways than one.
The New-York Historical Society acknowledges a notorious purchase 400 years ago — and lets the Lenape tell their side: “We are still here.”
The writer and filmmaker discusses the blend of theoretical cosmology and Black culture in Chicago’s newest planetarium show.
At two of the spring’s major art world events, everyone was a critic.
A MoMA series shows how the artist pushes the boundaries of cinema in short movies that both delight and baffle.
A selection of entertainment highlights this weekend, including Kacey Musgraves's new album, “Deeper Well.”
Museum curators said they had been unaware that the artist Demian DinéYazhi’ included the message through the flickering letters of their neon installation.
Joseph Feury, who is married to the actress Lee Grant, is exhibiting work that includes images of sunflowers, symbols of Ukraine.
The Light and Space artist who flew under the radar has his moment in the sun.
Kayak through mangroves, take a Black history trolley tour and spot dolphins from a white-sand beach on Florida’s Gulf Coast.
The hotel developer Richard Hedreen is donating more than 200 artworks, and $25 million in seed money, in honor of his wife, Betty, an alumna.
“Even Better Than the Real Thing” is as a well-intentioned edition of the perpetually debated show. Will it go down as a notable one?
Activists urged Tate Britain to take an offensive artwork from 1927 off its walls, but the museum instead commissioned Keith Piper to create a response.
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.
Elizabeth C. Babcock, the chief executive of Forever Balboa Park, will start this summer, after Nancy Yao’s withdrawal.
Anthony Cudahy’s lush, figurative works are inspired, in equal parts, by news footage, family photographs and Renaissance paintings.
Her winsome animal characters and their comic adventures expressed universal truths and feelings, rendered in a naïve and often surrealistic style.
A pro-Palestinian group slashed and spray-painted a century-old portrait of the author of the Balfour Declaration at the University of Cambridge in England.
Curators are looking for old art that can resonate with a new audience at the venerable event in the Netherlands.
Roy Nachum designed the spectacle-filled Mercer Labs, which he touts as inclusive. But some advocates for blind people say his use of Braille can feel exploitative.
Libraries are now shut on Sundays, so the museum decided to step up.
Oksana Semenik’s social media campaign both educates the curious about overlooked Ukrainian artists — and pressures global museums to relabel art long described as Russian.
In striking self-portraits at the Brooklyn Museum, the artist revisits locations with histories of enslavement and reimagines the body as a site of power.
Homeowners are adding hidden doors and rooms to foil burglars, eke out extra storage space and prepare for Armageddon.
The children’s theater company will bring its latest production, “It’s a Marvelous Paper Bag World!,” to stages in New York this spring.
The Morgan Library & Museum drew devotees out for a party celebrating its centennial, including Peter Marino, Vito Schnabel and Walton Ford.
At a ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the Washington Principles, officials presented clarifications to the guidelines credited with helping to accelerate restitutions worldwide.
The museum, which has been the site of protests in recent years, has chosen Michael Lee as its director as it focuses on rebuilding trust.
The new institution in Amsterdam is the first to tell the full story of the persecution of Dutch Jews during World War II.
On eight acres, a landscape architect challenges ideas about the legacy of the land, the museum’s history and climate change.
An inaugural digital exhibition, “Becoming Visible,” traces the paths of five notable women whose stories have been largely erased.
A taxidermy gallery known for its bulky centerpiece is closing for a two-year renovation.
The National Museum of Mathematics is shifting to temporary space in a former gym on Fifth Avenue.
Celebridad internacional de la moda, su exitosa exposición del Met viajó a otros museos y, como una estrella de rock, atrajo a miles de personas en sus apariciones públicas.
We know that happiness is to be found in taking our time and being present. How can we slow down?
The Cuban artist Ana Mendieta fell from a window of her 34th-floor apartment in 1985. Her family members have been fighting for control of her legacy ever since.
She came to fame in the fashion world in her 80s and 90s, and her wildly eclectic closet of clothes formed a hit exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Two activists poured the powder over the protective case at the National Archives Museum last month to call attention to climate change, prosecutors said.
A conversation with Robin Pogrebin, a Los Angeles-based arts writer for The New York Times.
Joan Jonas’s maximalist, category-defying work combines video, performance, folklore, sculpture and ecology. At 87, she still has no intention of simplifying anything.
Eric Newman, who created the Netflix show “Narcos” and produced his new show with Sofia Vergara, shares his love for a lesser-known side of the South Florida playground.
Julia Sinelnikova says the museum plastered an image of a kiss with a girlfriend all over New York, including on the subways, without seeking consent.
His decision to let in two robbers disguised as police officers enabled the greatest art theft in history — a crime that remains unsolved today.
At a retrospective of his portraits in London, where the American expatriate fled after creating a scandal in Paris, clothes offer both armor and self-expression.
With one pension file, I was able to fill in multiple gaps in my family tree and the location where most of my paternal grandfather’s family had been enslaved.
This week, Holland Cotter covers the Studio Museum in Harlem’s residency results, Sarah Grilo’s little-seen paintings and Mary Lucier’s experimental and heartfelt video art.
Spurred by population growth and new patron support, artists from China, Japan, South Korea and the Philippines are getting more recognition from museums and the market.
Exhibitions around the world are celebrating the art movement’s centennial and asking whether our crazy dreams can still set us free.
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.