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A Rembrandt on Your Skin: Museum Hosts a Tattoo Parlor in Amsterdam

For two weeks, patrons at the Rembrandt House can get tattoos of the artist’s drawings and etchings, courtesy of “the godfather of Amsterdam tattoo culture.”

Imprisoned on Flimsy Evidence, He Began Quilting. Now His Work Is in Museums.

Gary Tyler was convicted of murder in a trial that a court later deemed unfair. Now free after 41 years, he is a celebrated textile artist with a new solo show.

24 Things to Do in N.Y.C. in November

Dave Chappelle takes over Madison Square Garden, a gay “Fantasticks” opens on Broadway and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade turns 100.

A Beguiling, Artful Dance Through the Music of Time

In “Sound Tracks,” the musician and archaeologist Graeme Lawson tells our story, in ancient instruments.

Swarms of Monarch Butterflies

The cartoonist Peter Kuper has filled a corridor with drawings of monarchs, depicting the beauty of the annual mass migration to Mexican forests — as well as its perils.

The Ancient Skill of Glassmaking Feels New Again

Exhibitions at museums across the United States are exploring today’s complex scientific and social issues through the lens of glassmaking.

Museums Turn to A.I. to Create Personalized Tour Experiences

What if you could carry your own personal curator in your pocket? Museums are hoping A.I. can make this a reality.

Recalling the Pathbreaking Role of a Newark Art Space

An exhibition at the Newark Museum of Art is showcasing the influence of Aljira, a nonprofit gallery that supported underrepresented artists.

Exploring the Joy and Solace of Queer Latino Nightlife

An exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego features artworks celebrating the spaces that often serve as sites of refuge for L.G.B.T.Q. communities.

Cleveland Rocks Anew

A $195 million expansion of the Rock Hall features a new entry plaza, an amphitheater and a 40-foot-tall wall of glass.

Veterans Find Art Inspiration

A show at the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian highlights art made by Indigenous veterans, especially those who served in the Vietnam War.

The Tar Pits Face a Mammoth Task

Over the next two years, the Los Angeles institution must pack, move and unpack 3.5 million fossils, while modernizing to meet this critical moment.

‘I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This in Terms of the Level of Fear’

At a time of global conflict, institutions are shying away from the topic — and artists are struggling to show their work.

What’s New at the Museum? Stargazing, Escape Rooms, Bachelorette Parties and More.

Museums are pitching themselves as date-night destinations — and finding a generation of takers.

Come for the Relics, Stay for the Music

The program “Met Live Arts” aims to create immersive experiences with notable performers in surprising museum locations.

A Spanish Homecoming

The new museum, in Valencia, will focus on works by that city’s native son, Joaquín Sorolla, and, it is hoped, benefit the Manhattan institution.

A Squirrel Invaded an Artist’s House, Then His Life

After a squirrel invaded his home, Wilmer Wilson IV decided to research everything about the creature. The result is a solo show titled “SKIRL!”

A Guide to U.S. Art Openings

On display are Yoshitomo Nara’s alluring childlike figures in New York, works by Salvador Dalí alongside his predecessors’ in Florida and Raven Halfmoon’s towering sculptures in Oklahoma.

Trump Erupted After Learning of Alina Habba’s $50 Million Deal

Angry about the scale of a contract signed by one of his former lawyers with the family of a wealthy pardon seeker, the president told allies he wanted some of the money to go to his future presidential library.

There Are a Whole Lot of Clues, But Little in the Way of Mystery

The photographer Taryn Simon spent a decade channeling an F.B.I. agent’s life into pictures. Is it good art? Does it matter?

National Constitution Center Names New Leader

Hiram E. Chodosh, a former president of Claremont McKenna, will take the reins of the center charged by Congress to promote the Constitution and its principles.

Three Stone Age Caves Reveal Continual Cannibalism

A tour of the three caves in southern Spain suggests that people in the area cannibalized one another as funerary practice over many generations.

36 Hours in Buenos Aires

At once nostalgic and ever-changing, the Argentine capital remains unreservedly itself.

A Manga Showcase Hits the Brooklyn Museum

The Japanese comic book medium has become hugely popular among audiences globally. A new exhibition should have something for both fans and newcomers.

Honoring Baltimore’s Complex Past

Across three fall shows, the Baltimore Museum of Art showcases the multifaceted region through photography, paintings, poetry and weavings.

A Place Just for Latino Art

The Museum of Latin American Art in California is the only U.S. museum solely focused on modern and contemporary Latin American and Latino art.

Lost Feminist Takes Her Place at MoMA

An exhibition is built around the German artist Marianne Wex, whose photos are in dialogue with the works of others.

Reimagining Pop Art

The artist Alex Da Corte offers a fresh take on Roy Lichtenstein and Marisol in two new projects opening back-to-back this fall.

Northwest Arkansas Now Looks Like This

Alice Walton is helping the Ozark region shed its “flyover” status by creating civic projects with top architects. The Waltons say they are “giving back.” What is the region giving up?

Ursula von Rydingsvard, Sculptor of Monumental Forms, Has Died

Working with four-by-four cedar beams, she created towering sculptures that evoked cave walls, frozen waves, seashells or the folds of a giant’s brain.

Celebrating Jimmy Buffett in His Hometown (No, Not Key West)

The “son of a son of a sailor” grew up on the Gulf, and a new museum, hoping to attract the Parrothead nation, celebrates his early life and career. A Times journalist and friend offers a look.

A Manhattan Showcase for Works by the Father of Modern Italian Design

From skyscrapers to chairs to whimsical coat hooks, the Milan native Gio Ponti, who died in 1979, left an extraordinary legacy.

Music That’s Everywhere and Nowhere

It is one of music’s most enduring genres, but its role in American culture has often been lost to time. This exhibition is aiming to change that.

Divas Take the Spotlight

Against a glittering backdrop and to the beat of a powerful soundtrack, an art museum exhibition gives the Dollys, Whitneys and Marías their due.

Where Neon’s Warm Glow Can Be Found and Celebrated

Across the United States, from Nevada to Missouri, museums and parks are displaying and honoring signs that “are like jewels on a necklace of the road.”

This Is Your Brain on Art

The Honolulu Museum of Art is showing how art can influence thinking, perspective and mood, in an exhibition that is part of a trend by museums to mix science and art.

A New Generation’s History Lesson

An idea sparked by the historian Stephen E. Ambrose became the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.

Paris, Battened Down Against Riots, Offers Lonely Welcome to Visitors

Americans on hand for the N.F.L.’s first-ever game in France found famous museums closed and shops boarded up.

The Local: Seitu K. Jones gets overdue museum show

Plus, a fight over free speech and election law.

After Riots, French Ban Some Protests

President Emmanuel Macron said the move was necessary “so that calm prevails.”

John Anderson, Voice of ‘Seminole Wind,’ Dies at 71

His gravelly vocals propelled a career that spanned nearly five decades and earned him a spot in the Country Music Hall of Fame.

If You Think You Know Brancusi’s Sculptures, Step Into His Studio

Rare artworks, photographs, films and tools have traveled from Paris to MoMA, revealing the father of modern sculpture as newly earthy.

Beautiful Figures, No Matter the View

A show of bronzes at the Frick Collection reveals a divine and ancient craft they’d revived — and lessons in gluteal grace.

T Introduces

A new art destination in Amsterdam will be filled with experiments in light and form.

How to Catch the Orionids, a Meteor Shower From Halley’s Comet

It’s a fall favorite among stargazers, known for bright, speedy streaks that can sometimes linger in the sky for minutes.

Don’t Delete Your Child’s Blurry Selfies. They Might Be Art.

An exhibition argues that juvenile photographic experiments can reveal unique perspectives worth saving — and even displaying.

Jenny Holzer Resurrects the Past to Lament the Present

Excerpts from archival letters and diaries were the basis for a number of the works in the American artist’s solo show at Paris’s Musée d’Orsay.

Is This Red Carpet Better Than the Met Gala’s?

Our favorite looks from the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Gala, which took some by surprise with its elegance.

Taylor Swift’s Spooky Night Out with Hollywood

The pop star performed at the annual Academy Museum Gala in Los Angeles for a crowd filled with celebrities, film professionals and academy voters.

A House David Bowie Couldn’t Wait to Leave Is Becoming a Museum

If all goes to plan, Bowie’s childhood home in the London suburb of Bromley will become an attraction.

She Signed Her Painting in 1548. Nearly 500 Years Later, It Finally Goes on Show.

Long overshadowed by her father and overlooked by historians, the 16th-century pioneer Catharina van Hemessen is now getting her due.

How the Billionaire Owner of Two Sports Teams Spends a Day Chasing Wins

Laurie M. Tisch, an owner of the New York Giants and Gotham F.C., spends her time on art, family and both kinds of football.

Fun Here, There, Everywhere

While Halloween and the Day of the Dead provide many ways to celebrate, this season offers other reasons to gather, too. Better yet, these events don’t cost a dime.

Kashmir’s Beauty and Violence Captured in an Exquisite MoMA Debut

With layered landscapes, patterns and poetry, Nilima Sheikh portrays the fractures and flash points of modern India.

A Paris Museum That’s Wild and a ‘Little Weird’

Despite its provocative subject matter, the Museum of Hunting and Nature aims to be “a joyful cabinet of curiosities.”

Remembering a Marvelous Multitasker

At El Museo del Barrio, a survey of the art multitasker Teddy Sandoval and his fictional collective, the Butch Gardens School.

For Contemporary Art, the Large Center Is a Big Deal

The huge art center on Île Seguin near Paris opens with a show of works collected by the automaker Renault and the real estate tycoon Laurent Dumas.

Rembrandts Never Seen in the U.S. Will Be at the Met

The exhibition, with paintings new to the United States, opens in November 2027. The Met’s Facade and Great Hall commissions go to Danh Vo and Sandra Mujinga.

When Your Roommate Runs a Gallery Out of the Living Room

Artists across Crown Heights, Ridgewood and beyond are following in the grand New York City tradition of apartment galleries.

Bayeux Tapestry’s Return Has History Buffs Re-Enacting Like It’s 1066

Almost a millennium ago, the Battle of Hastings was fought on an English field and depicted on the tapestry. This year’s restaging drew spectators spurred on by the artifact’s visit to Britain.

President Obama’s Climate Legacy

The Obama Presidential Center’s exhibits on climate change was like going back in time to a seemingly more harmonious world.

Van Gogh Museum Says It Reached Funding Deal and Won’t Have to Close

In a yearslong dispute, the Amsterdam institution pressed the Dutch government for an increased annual subsidy to pay for what the museum said were vital renovations.

Galliano Was a Fiasco. Bob Mackie Would Sparkle.

From an Intense Marriage, Pioneering Work

China’s ‘King of Banned Films’ Wants to Change the Subject

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.

Trump Cuts and Orders Have Broad Impact on American Museums, Report Finds

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.

How the Intrepid Moved a World War II Fighter Plane

The 33-foot Corsair, on loan from Florida, had to be “rigged up on skates” to get to the Intrepid’s hangar deck.

For Some Audiences, A Slow Bounce Back

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.

‘Headwinds’ Pit Finances Against Art

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.

Stewards Ensure a Future for California’s Past

The society faced financial challenges that were exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. Its nearly 600,000 items stretch back before the Gold Rush.

The Met Draws Bigger Crowds, But With Fewer Foreign Visitors

The museum said it attracted more local visitors during the past year than it did before the pandemic, but only half the international visitors.

San Francisco Art Institutions Are Slowly Regaining Strength

Although attendance remains down from prepandemic levels, the city’s arts groups are having some success getting audiences to return.

Africa Center Is Losing A Steady Force

Uzodinma Iweala, chief executive of the Harlem institution, will leave at the end of 2024 after guiding it through pandemic years and securing funds.

Will Culture Enliven Downtown Los Angeles?

The pandemic was tough on city centers and cultural institutions. What does that mean for Los Angeles, whose downtown depends on the arts?

Audiences Are Back, More or Less

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.

Amid Catastrophe, Collective Strength

A storm, a pandemic, and Black Puerto Rican history pervade his work at MoMA PS 1, with materials sourced from daily life.

Spider-Man, We Know Where You Live

Letters on display at a small museum in Brooklyn were sent to the same address in Queens as where the comic book hero lived.

The Louvre Limits Visitors by One-Third

With attendance surging back, the museum wants to offer “a moment of pleasure” — and relieve that Mona Lisa problem.

Why One World Trade Is Winning R.T.O.

The tower, next to the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, is doing something right; it's at 94 percent occupancy.

Your Thursday Briefing: Iran’s Protests Intensify

Plus Myanmar gets closer to Russia and a dire climate report.

Betting on Bigger

Projects all over the country include renovations and new wings as institutions continue to bet on bricks and mortar.

Cultural Tremors In San Francisco

Though some small galleries are opening or expanding, the mega dealers have closed shop, a blow to an area with a vibrant artistic history.

In the Mile High City, Festivals and Food Are on the Rise

Denver has regained its prepandemic vibrancy, with a plethora of new restaurants and hotels, and the return of some old favorites.

José Parlá Returns From the Edge

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.”

Artists Create Spaces For Our Covid Grief

From “anti-monuments” to ephemeral sand portraits, four art exhibitions encourage viewers to slow down and take stock of our pandemic losses.

Manhattan Springs Back to Life

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.