Is It Getting Better to Work in Museums?
Employee satisfaction has improved over the last few years, according to a new survey, but the field is troubled by low pay, burnout and “new culture wars.”
Employee satisfaction has improved over the last few years, according to a new survey, but the field is troubled by low pay, burnout and “new culture wars.”
An H.B.C.U.’s remarkable Hale Woodruff murals commemorating Black history have been bought by an art museum and two foundations. But the college says it is not completely letting go.
The museum says it had no idea at the time, but the heirs say the Met curator who bought and sold the work, a former U.S. Army specialist on looting, should have known better.
Sampling the outpouring of responses to a column by Ross Douthat about the East Wing and the ballroom. Also: Everyday acts of grace; Canada and President Trump.
Los ladrones robaron más de 100 millones de dólares en joyas del museo de París. No está claro cuántas personas fueron detenidas, pero un hombre fue capturado cuando intentaba salir de Francia.
Why are scary movies doing so well right now?
Four thieves broke into the famed Paris museum last week and stole over $100 million in historical jewelry, shocking France and the world. It is unclear how many people were arrested.
The robbery at the Louvre left behind more than broken glass. It battered the pride of a nation that is increasingly glum about itself and its direction.
Was it the heist of the century or a master class in incompetence by the museum? Some prominent former jewelry thieves have plenty to say about the audacious break-in at the Louvre.
The arguments against it illustrate a consistent problem with progressive stewardship of American cities.
These shows seek to decode and democratize art, providing expert insight into art history and practical tips on cultivating an artistic habit of your own.
The presence of Canadian visitors in Western New York has dropped off since the start of the year following tensions between Washington and Ottawa.
For a brief moment, the puzzle of what had happened to Pablo Picasso’s “Still Life With Guitar” infected Deifontes with caper fever.
¿Es siquiera real? Internet se hizo muchas preguntas después de que una foto empezó a circular.
On the eve of his show at the Jewish Museum the artist looks back on his delicate earliest art, and reveals why terror plays a vital role in his latest.
After thieves stole more than a hundred million dollars’ worth of jewelry from the Louvre using a lift truck, the manufacturer decided to capitalize on the connection.
The brazen daylight robbery of the Louvre on Sunday has turned into a marketing opportunity for Böcker, a German maker of cranes and elevators whose product was used in the heist.
Is he even real? The internet had many questions after a photo began to circulate.
While “Made in L.A. 2025” falters, the city’s local art scene is thriving, with an abundance of smart new shows in commercial spaces.
After the release of her latest album, an aquarium in California and a museum in Germany suddenly were thrust into the center of Taylor Swift’s fandom. Just how big is Swift’s cultural reach?
Wake up with Cuban coffee, zoom on a personal watercraft or just stretch out on white sand, and dance salsa until late.
Laurence des Cars, directora del museo de París, declaró ante el Senado que había ofrecido su dimisión tras el impresionante robo de joyas reales.
While others made sleek metallic sculptures, she favored humble materials like lumber and glue. The Times called her “one of our most gifted and inventive sculptors.”
Ordinarily on view in the museum’s permanent display, the doll’s house was moved to be the centerpiece of the exhibition “At Home in the 17th Century.”
With exhibitions featuring copper-wire sculptures, burned canvases, ghostly nighttime paintings and more, here are the people to put on your radar this season.
Given the ubiquity of neon-colored safety jackets, criminals are using them to carry out crimes in plain sight.
Thieves snatched jewelry valued at more than $100 million, but the museum will not be compensated for the loss.
Patrons of the reopened Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum, expressed astonishment and intrigue over the daytime heist of jewelry worth more than $100 million that had led to its closure.
How thieves were able to pull off an audacious robbery of priceless jewels from the Louvre in broad daylight.
French authorities are under growing scrutiny about whether security failings allowed four thieves to steal royal jewelry worth over $100 million.
In 1925, the first motel opened on a California highway, ushering in a new era of convenience and comfort for a nation falling in love with the open road.
The brazen robbery on Sunday has put a spotlight on security protocols in the sprawling museum, which have been tested over the years by break-ins and thefts.
Jewelry swiped from the museum played a prominent part in a private guide’s tours of Paris. Now what?
The eight pieces are unlikely to garner that price if they are split apart or melted, the prosecutor said Tuesday.
In just eight minutes, thieves stole priceless jewelry from the Louvre Museum on Sunday after using a truck-mounted ladder to break into a second-floor window. Catherine Porter, an international correspondent for The New York Times based in Paris, explains how it unfolded.
A woman from China was charged with stealing gold last month from National Museum of Natural History. It’s one of several high-profile recent thefts from French institutions.
Today, we look at how thieves pulled off this weekend’s brazen daylight robbery in Paris and why they did it.
Mis colegas explican cómo se produjo el descarado robo de joyas durante el día en el Louvre y por qué.
Investigators were looking into the alarm systems at an institution that one expert said “wasn’t built with an obsession over security.”
After reconfiguring and rethinking two floors of its Fifth Avenue mansion, the museum reopens to the public.
It’s the first time in nearly 20 years that the museum has asked an artist from mainland China to create artwork for its building.
Según los expertos, el robo en el Louvre no fue un delito artístico sino un “robo de mercancías” exclusivamente para obtener gemas o metales preciosos.
My colleagues explain how the brazen daytime jewel heist at the Louvre happened and why.
Un asombroso robo ha suscitado preguntas incómodas sobre la seguridad en el famoso museo de París.
Fue el robo más descarado —y acaso el más costoso— que se haya perpetrado en el museo que alberga las colecciones de arte más preciadas del país.
The robbery at the Paris museum on Sunday is only the latest in a long line of breaches.
Sunday’s robbery at the Paris museum could be the latest example of thieves targeting museums for jewels and precious metals to break down and sell on.
The Louvre Museum in Paris remained closed on Monday after thieves stole priceless jewels in a brazen heist that lasted less than 10 minutes and shocked the country.
Plus, a brazen heist at the Louvre.
A stunning heist has raised uncomfortable questions about security at the famed Paris museum.
Ventfort Hall, an 1893 mansion built for J.P. Morgan’s sister, was in disrepair. The living and the dead teamed up to save it.
Entre los objetos robados figuran tiaras deslumbrantes, collares y pendientes de la realeza.
Visitors at the Louvre were evacuated on Sunday after thieves broke into a gallery housing the French crown jewels. Investigators believe multiple experienced robbers were involved.
The fund-raiser in Los Angeles drew stars who were masked, shoeless and gushing about this season’s Oscar hopefuls.
The stolen items include glittering royal tiaras, necklaces and earrings.
French officials said the thieves broke into a first-floor wing of the Paris museum and fled with “priceless” jewelry.
RoseLee Goldberg of New York’s Performa has long encouraged visual artists to take the leap of translating their ideas into real time and space.
An exhibition by the artist Fia Backström at the Queens Museum uses photos, textiles and videos to look at the Great Society from the perspective of the downtrodden.
Paintings, poems and science are on display at the Museum of the North in Fairbanks, illustrating the shared impact when carbon is released from the permafrost.
Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi, married partners, discover expressive possibilities by sculpting landscapes that shape buildings.
While some art institutions are eagerly engaging artificial intelligence, others are less enthusiastic.
The new show focuses on the famed Impressionist’s works on paper. Were they masterpieces? Less than? That is for visitors to decide.
A look inside Barack Obama’s “living, breathing cultural and gathering space” (with an N.B.A.-size basketball court). Not everyone is cheering.
This California-based artist sees art as a community endeavor, and the land as a relative to be cared for.
Even as race-conscious cultural programming is under attack, this San Francisco museum is celebrating its 20th anniversary with an ambitious show exploring Blackness and the cosmos.
The 19th-century artist Camille Pissarro inspired others who became far more famous than he was, but many admirers say he was equally accomplished. An upcoming exhibition makes the case.
For this Halloween scavenger hunt, we scoured this encyclopedic museum for the most haunting works, bloody details and hidden meanings.
The Chicago History Museum will explore the heritage and traditions of Latinos, and the National Museum of Mexican Art will trace the role of Mexicans in railway work.
An exhibition of works by contemporary Native American artists is meant to show ties between ancestors, teachings, values, stories, the future and one another.
In Portland, as in other cities and towns across America, art institutions have sought revivals — or even recreations.
This famous commercial artist loved by millions never got the critical acclaim she probably deserved. A museum looks to change that.
The nationally touring retrospective is the culmination of a rising tide of interest in female artists who cited visions as a source of inspiration.
Durante el tiempo que Frehley formó parte de Kiss, el grupo publicó 11 álbumes, tanto de estudio como en directo, que fueron discos de oro o de platino en Estados Unidos.
A consummate showman, he was known for playing guitars rigged with pyrotechnic effects and for his distinctive stage persona.
From the must-see locations to the most frequently asked questions, our guide has all you need to plan your next visit.
The Irish writer was barred in 1895 after being convicted of gross indecency. On Thursday, the British Library will hand over a symbolic new card to his grandson.
The Princeton University Art Museum has navigated a controversy around its architect and political pressures facing cultural and academic institutions on the way to the opening of its new building.
Photos taken by blackwater divers offered a new glimpse into the early life stages of marine fishes and their interactions with other animals.
Swim in azure waters, visit an 18th-century glassblowing factory and explore the picturesque towns of this Balearic island.
At the Brooklyn Museum, his defining portraits of Mali’s citizens in the 1950s show them breaking free of colonial domination yet still tethered to their cultural history.
She broke out in 1992, with a work that drew a lot of heat — and brought her fame. Now, El Museo del Barrio is exploring the Cuban American artist’s life and legacy outside the cage.
In San Juan, the Museo de los Santos y Arte Nacional is helping to revive interest in santos, small wooden statues of saints that artists have made for centuries.
About one-third of U.S. museums have lost government funding this year alone. Now, they look ahead — and find ways to move forward, despite the obstacles.
The Missouri History Museum shines a light on Mill Creek Valley, once a bastion of Black culture and community.
Una sensación de malestar se ha apoderado de Irán desde los ataques aéreos de EE. UU. e Israel en junio, pero tras visitar la capital, descubrimos que muchos iraníes solo tratan de salir adelante.
The American Museum of Natural History is relocating Apex, a 150-million-year-old skeleton, to a new spot near its dinosaur halls.
Astoria, Ore., the setting of the classic 1985 teen movie, invites fans to follow their inner adventurer and explore a scenic corner of the Northwest.
As U.S. institutions reimagine their programming, some are adopting a new approach: recruiting young people to organize their shows.
The enduring animosity between the United States and Iran is reflected inside the walls of the former U.S. embassy in Tehran, now turned into a museum of anti-American propaganda. U.S. involvement in the June Iran-Israel war has resurfaced that shared past.
At the Met Cloisters in Manhattan, paintings, statuettes and other objects demonstrate that human desire transcends time and cultures.
A deep sense of unease has gripped Iran since American and Israeli airstrikes in June, but on a recent visit to the capital, we found that many Iranians seemed to be just trying to get by.
Institutions around the country are preparing for the nation’s 250th anniversary, even in the face of political crosswinds.
A new exhibition at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Conn., gives visitors a whiff, from “chocolate-y” to stinky blue cheese.
Some artists offer a glimpse of a future that is already occurring in some climates. Others imagine a world past the point of survival.
La exhibición está programada para coincidir con el aniversario de la abolición de la pena de muerte en Francia y el homenaje al abogado que luchó para ponerle fin.
The visual artist Dread Scott, the playwright Lynn Nottage and others have organized a series of actions to unite the arts community against the Trump administration.
The American Museum of Natural History has found a more appropriate space for Apex, a nearly complete dinosaur skeleton lent to it last year, when it was first assembled and put on view.
The fall schedule includes a number of exhibitions that look at works from Italy and France and the cultural events that shaped them.
It has been a half-century since the ship sank on Lake Superior, and a pop single memorialized its fate. Now museums are commemorating those events.
Weatherbird cartoons that have graced the front pages of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for 125 years are on exhibit at the Field House Museum.
This fall, the museum opens a rave-themed show, highlighting work by women and queer artists of the West Asian diaspora.
The city, once a mining center, has an outpost of the Louvre that claims “the architectural creativity of the Guggenheim and a collection worthy of the Met.” It’s an easy train ride from Paris.
The plaza in Tel Aviv has been a focal point for rallies for the release of the hostages and a gathering place for their families and supporters.
The institution operates some of the most popular sites in Washington and beyond, including 21 museums, 14 education and research centers and the National Zoo.
A first-of-its-kind exhibition in San Francisco shows the artistry and history of the Japanese comics that have fueled hits across TV and film.
Nobody knew how a nearly 2,000-year-old grave marker landed in a backyard for decades — until this week.
Readers respond to the rapidly developing events in the Middle East. Also: The virtues of coal; three hours with Velázquez.
He wrote some of the band’s signature songs, including “Ride My See-Saw” and “I’m Just a Singer (in a Rock and Roll Band).”
The display is timed for the anniversary of France’s abolition of the death penalty, and its honoring of the lawyer who campaigned to end it.
The artist, who died in 2008, would have reached that age this month. But buoyant birthday festivities around the globe come mixed with sobering news about his former home.
A once-in-a-decade exhibition of ancient deities — many are goddesses — ranging over more than 3,000 years, from monumental statues to gleaming figurines.
In Lu Yang’s art, the deliriousness comes from the collision of cutting-edge technology with centuries-old ideas of the highest order.
It took nearly 50 years to work out the identity of a caribou-like fossil first discovered by construction workers.
The founder of the Equal Justice Initiative says it would be “dishonorable” to remain silent in the face of President Trump’s efforts.
Think you know the landmarks, legends and lore of the city that never stops reinventing itself? See how well you measure up.
Bobby Cannavale, James Corden and Neil Patrick Harris talked about paintings that made an impression and, like their characters in “Art,” had questions about one another’s taste.
Some underground attractions are closed, and many outdoor sites have reduced their services.
Three museums designed by David Adjaye are opening this fall, but some institutions are downplaying his involvement.
Amal and George Clooney were joined at the Albie Awards by celebrities including Meryl Streep and Meg Ryan, with performances by John Legend and Brandi Carlile.
The Fort Lauderdale museum, one of the country’s oldest L.G.B.T.Q. institutions, is looking to its rich archives for lessons in how to survive a crisis. Here’s a look inside its collection.
The southeastern county of East Sussex is home to a wealth of independent galleries and exhibition spaces.
La salida de Todd Arrington, quien dirigía la Biblioteca y Museo Presidencial Dwight D. Eisenhower, se produjo después de que el gobierno solicitó un objeto de su colección para obsequiar al rey.
Several would-be visitors were turned away from the museum honoring former President Jimmy Carter in Atlanta, one of many presidential libraries affected by the shutdown.
The show’s curator stands by the authenticity of lithographs by the Surrealist artist, saying he has the documents to prove it.
The departure of Todd Arrington, who led the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, came after the administration sought a sword from its collection as a gift for King Charles.
As Paris Fashion Week begins, nostalgia sometimes comes at the expense of impact.
Jon Stewart, Atsuko Okatsuka and Pete Davidson are just three stars making us laugh this month, while cosplayers and fans assemble for the ultimate geek fest.
Cultural figures, including the authors Gary Shteyngart and Jacqueline Woodson, the actors Ilana Glazer and Leslie Odom Jr., and the Guggenheim curator Naomi Beckwith, share their visions for 2050.
BRIC, the Noble Maritime Collection, Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, the Bronx Children’s Museum and the Louis Armstrong House Museum get a permanent investment.
Travelers who fell in love with the Iberian country can revisit it in towns along the coast of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, where chefs and other purveyors are putting new twists on tradition.
At 19, he was one of the youngest pilots in the all-Black unit to see combat in World War II. “I used to say the Army’s No. 1 job was segregation,” he said. “Winning the war was No. 2.”
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.”