A guerrilla activist group is papering the city with posters criticizing the billionaire Jeff Bezos’ involvement in the event, a fund-raiser for the Metropolitan Museum.
A highly idiosyncratic compendium of what you need to know right now.
What to know about one of the field’s most misappropriated terms.
Artists share their favorite pieces from institutions around the world.
Six notorious artistic controversies, from Édouard Manet’s “Olympia” to Tracey Emin’s “My Bed.”
In an unusual collaboration for the Met, the opera’s set designer has conceived a companion exhibition, mounted at MoMA.
An exhibition at the New York Historical focuses on the city’s 17th-century roots as a Dutch settlement.
An exhibition explores examples of Pop Art from the 1960s in dialogue with recent acquisitions by contemporary artists.
In an interview with the local news outfit Hell Gate, Mayor Mamdani framed his decision to avoid the glitzy fund-raiser as a way to keep his focus on affordability.
The institution will feature five of the beloved author’s collage-based books in a series of interactive exhibits meant to engage children.
Current members of the museum have created a show that draws from, and comments on, the institution’s curious collections.
Even as the institution has grown and changed, it has continued to be a launchpad for emerging artists. This spring, it is putting 53 in the spotlight.
Thomas J Price’s bronze figures present anonymous Black people at heroic scale. After an installation in Times Square sparked a furor, his latest work welcomes visitors to a new museum outpost.
Mets fans, avert your eyes: John Middleton, majority owner of the Phillies, and his wife have a deep bench of American art stars, and they’ve lent them in a dual display for the 250th.
MoMA PS1 in Queens has been in Long Island City for 50 years.
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield will showcase works by people who live and work in New York’s shadow.
The showcase features works that change from hour to hour, invite interaction and interrogate the idea of creativity itself.
His many achievements have been obscured, some believe, by his reputation as a provincial landscape painter.
A $1.5 billion project will transform the nation’s most-visited art museum, with renovations involving a quarter of the galleries and public spaces.
The season includes a Duchamp retrospective at MoMA, a window on Etruscan civilization at the de Young in San Francisco and a fashion celebration at the Phoenix Art Museum.
From the top attractions to the most frequently asked questions, our guide has all you need to plan your next visit.
For 100 years, the Atlanta History Center and the High Museum of Art have expanded and diversified, not unlike the metropolis itself.
In a new and ongoing exhibition, the American Museum of Natural History highlights the findings of Mark Norell and other fossil hunters responsible for its most important discoveries.
As one of the few institutions of its kind in the world, the Somali Museum of Minnesota has become a center of the immigrant community.
Emily Rauh Pulitzer, a veteran curator and collector, leans heavily on sculpture and drawing in a show of some 85 works.
After $724 million and a decade of battles, the pugnacious David Geffen Galleries reassert the city’s role as a petri dish for experimental design.
Institutions large and small examine the complicated history of the iconic corridor that helped define the American road trip.
This spring, the Philadelphia Museum of Art invites the bronze boxer inside to center an exhibition on why we make monuments and what they mean.
The Bay Area family made a deal with SFMOMA that called for exhibitions of the collection’s works every 10 years. Some 250 pieces are now showing.
The annual “Art in Bloom” exhibition began in 1976 and has spawned similar events at other museums across the country.
The 40,000-square-foot space, housed in a former dairy barn, aims to upend expectations of what an art museum can be.
Billy Idol, Luther Vandross and Wu-Tang Clan will also be inducted, while New Edition, Mariah Carey and Melissa Etheridge failed to make the final cut.
The American Library Association filed a lawsuit arguing that cuts ordered by President Trump were illegal because they did not have congressional approval.
The artist Klara Hodsnedlova inaugurates OMA’s soaring new atrium stairway at the New Museum.
Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn is opening a $43 million visitor’s center to attract the living by making it easier to navigate the rambling grounds.
She gave New York debuts to artists like Cecilia Bartoli and Peter Serkin, and introduced new music by Philip Glass and others.
Ann Hamilton, known for conceptual art installations, embraces a new era with scanner photography at the Cleveland Museum — and finds a tactile tenderness.
Our critic Jason Farago shares what you shouldn’t miss in a city undergoing a palpable cultural renewal.
The art museum will close to the public in March 2027 to replace its aging tram system and modernize some galleries.
Melissa Chiu is stepping down as director of the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington to lead the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Nailya Allakhverdiyeva tried compromising with the authorities so she could continue showing contemporary art. But the intimidation didn’t end.
Marcel Duchamp flipped the notion of art’s value on its head. We need foundation-shaking badly today, our critic says, and a sweeping survey at MoMA is an arresting reminder.
Find timeworn architecture, tea ceremonies, modern dining and a world-class circus beneath a bamboo dome on Vietnam’s central coast.
The Acquavella Galleries in Manhattan offer more than 50 works, many from private collections. The show caps a surge of exhibitions on the great painter.
Two decades in the making, the David Geffen Galleries will offer an unconventional approach to art history and cement the director Michael Govan’s legacy.
Year in and year out, New Directors/New Films showcases inspired work worth your attention. The latest edition is especially impressive.
At 40, he is a father, a NASCAR driver and back as the star of a “Malcolm in the Middle” revival. “I have unfinished business,” he said.
Las autoridades se apresuraron a asegurar a los mexicanos que una colección de estimadas obras de arte regresaría en 2028. Un testamento pocas veces visto podría aclarar los deseos de la coleccionista.
Officials scrambled to reassure Mexicans that a collection of esteemed artworks would return by 2028. A rarely-seen will may clarify the collector’s wishes.
Institutions are grappling with the human remains in their collections that were used to justify debunked theories about race.
Marcel Duchamp’s original “Fountain” sculpture vanished within days of its 1917 appearance. He later introduced these versions in response to demand.
Marcel Duchamp changed the face of culture in the 20th century, and beyond, with an unconventional sculpture that challenged how we think of art.
The terms of two governing members have expired, but their replacements have yet to be named as the institution faces President Trump’s effort to play a role in the selections.
The ship sank during the Battle of Copenhagen, an important moment in Danish and British history, and became the origin of a common saying.
The golden helmet of Cotofenesti, a highly regarded artifact from Romania, and two elaborate golden bracelets were taken in January 2025.
Biohackers like Bryan Johnson seem to want to live forever. What would that be like? A London exhibition offers some thoughts.
A new exhibit at the Met highlights Iba Ndiaye’s myriad influences from across the globe, but ultimately his work was all his own.
The Frick gathers 25 works by the painter Thomas Gainsborough, a visual compendium of the social biggies in British society.
At the Museum of Modern Art through April 7, audiences can enter and exit a screening of the 6½-hour film, which Jacobs began in the 1950s.
This month brings Barry Manilow and Martha Graham, Earth Day and Easter, as well as a pickle tour and a little night music.
The visual historian and celebrated author of “Low Life” has two shows of recent artwork made from decades of gathering materials, a trove she slices and glues.
The Emancipation Proclamation and the 19th Amendment have been added to the Archives’s rotunda, the first permanent changes there in nearly 75 years.
President Trump posted a video rendering that appeared to include elements generated by artificial intelligence of a skyscraper in Miami featuring what appeared to be Air Force One.
En tres minutos, los ladrones entraron a la Fundación Magnani-Rocca, a las afueras de Parma, Italia, y se llevaron cuadros valorados en millones, dijeron las autoridades.
Thieves broke into the Magnani-Rocca Foundation outside Parma, Italy, officials said, and made off with paintings worth millions.
Paul Troubetzkoy traveled the world to immortalize the A-listers of his time. An exhibition in Milan remembers his vitality and fame.
Mucho antes de las aplicaciones de horóscopos, las bases de la multimillonaria industria actual de la astrología comenzaron en Babilonia, Egipto y el mundo clásico.
They can shake off those winter doldrums by hunting for Easter eggs, running the bases at Brooklyn Cyclones’ ballpark or gliding down Slide Hill on Governors Island.
From back-street wine bars to world-class museums, new spots are sprouting up all over the world’s most visited city.
Jennifer Schuessler, a culture reporter who writes about intellectual life, is now covering President Trump’s attempts to amend the presentation of American history.
This blockbuster exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art humanizes a lapsed god of painting.
The rarely seen “Angelus Novus” by Paul Klee was supposed to arrive at New York’s Jewish Museum, but remains in Israel instead.
Long before horoscope apps, the foundations of today’s multibillion-dollar astrology industry were laid in Babylonia, Egypt and the classical world.
Our critic offers a guide to 70 years of great devotional sculptures in the Asia Society collection — including some that he once helped install.
A leveled-up dining scene, upgraded greenways and public art await weekend visitors to this Southern capital.
Atrás quedaron las cenas de lujo en mansiones de donantes y la ropa de diseñador. Ahora David Ross paga el precio de haberse relacionado con el abusador sexual Jeffrey Epstein.
Hear the instruments and scores, on view in a new exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum, that proved foundational for Mozart’s life in music.
The descendants of David Drake learned who he was 10 years ago. They see his jars as his artistic and spiritual inheritance — and their own.
He mastered the world of the “Epstein Class” to build great museums. Now he’s confronting the cost.
With the planned creation of new galleries for its Arts of Africa collection, the Brooklyn Museum hopes visitors will see their cultures “represented with dignity.”
A work about gay visibility avoids statements, yet remains powerful. A dancer appears just once a day, showing the political valence of absence.
Experts said the fragment, recovered by divers from the Greek culture ministry, matched the style and dimensions of the Parthenon, but that it was too soon to be certain of its provenance.
Many New Yorkers said Ramadan felt especially poignant this year under Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who used his own observance of the holiday to model the diversity of Muslim life in the city.
A man was arrested after being accused of damaging an estimated $240,000 of artwork at the Chihuly Garden and Glass.
A delivery truck driver from Queens created a scale model of New York City. After 10 million views on TikTok, his mini Gotham has moved to Museum Mile.
Among the must-see exhibitions on view for a limited time are ones featuring a rare Caravaggio, streetscapes covered in orchids and Gabriele Münter’s colorful figures.
Almost 15 years since the revolution in Tunisia, its capital is attracting visitors who want to be part of a thrilling, but fragile, creative blossoming.
It’s a big, serious, adult show worth debating and even fighting over — just the way our critic likes it.
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.