
The Huntington Gets Hip
“Made in L.A.” represents an effort by the Huntington to expand its contemporary art programming and present more artists of color.
“Made in L.A.” represents an effort by the Huntington to expand its contemporary art programming and present more artists of color.
As one museum has pledged to return skulls held in an infamous collection, others, including the Smithsonian, are reckoning with their own holdings of African-American remains.
Thirty-three antiquities were handed over to the Afghan ambassador by the Manhattan district attorney’s office and the Department of Homeland Security.
Thirty-three antiquities were handed over to the Afghan ambassador by the Manhattan district attorney’s office and the Department of Homeland Security.
Newly spurred to action to combat bias, they generate subway posters, leverage social media, stage Zoom webinars. “Our community couldn’t take being invisible any longer,” one artist says.
“As Long as the Sun Lasts” is a winsome crowd-pleaser that turns gentle circles without ever getting anywhere.
Yayoi Kusama at the New York Botanical Garden, ethically sourced housewares from Mali — and more.
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His firm, which he formed with J. Max Bond Jr., designed public works commemorating the civil rights movement as well as the Schomburg Center in Harlem.
Neglected by art history for decades, Jo van Gogh-Bonger, the painter’s sister-in-law, is finally being recognized as the force who opened the world’s eyes to his genius.
The first round of funding for the year totals $24 million and will support 225 projects across the country.
The Pritzker-winning architect is focusing on social justice projects — and can be something of a lightning rod — but he also has lighthearted pursuits.
A Dutch artist worked with former plantation employees to create a “white cube” that they hope will one day display works returned from European museums.
An Irish artist colorized portraits of Cambodian prisoners who were tortured, starved, beaten and killed. In some cases, he doctored the images to put smiles on their faces.
An Irish artist colorized portraits of Cambodian prisoners who were tortured, starved, beaten and killed. In some cases, he doctored the images to put smiles on their faces.
The nuclear power plant at Indian Point will close at the end of the month, but the shutdown could cause a spike in greenhouse gases.
This year’s Met Gala will be in September. The Costume Institute has announced its next big show. The subject: American style. Politics are involved.
The Louvre inspected the “Salvator Mundi” and certified it as the work of Leonardo da Vinci. But it kept those findings secret after a squabble with the painting’s owners.
Assembled in a mere four months, pivoting off an important national event, the Speed Museum offers a new, relevant model for aging institutions.
“We live in a time where anti-Semitism is on the rise again in America and around the world,” Mr. Blinken said.
The suggested starting bid for the painting was set at around $1,800, but if it is really the work of the Baroque master, it could be worth millions.
During World War II and over the past year, couples learned to be resilient and flexible. A New Orleans museum keeps some memories from wartime alive.
The special project “What Loss Looks Like” presents personal artifacts belonging to those who have left us and explores what they mean to those left behind.
The paintings were stolen separately in the last year from two different, smaller museums in the Netherlands.
The chief restorer of the Vatican Museums, he led the cleaning of the Sistine Chapel, a 14-year effort that revealed a new vision of Michelangelo’s complex work.
More than a year after the pandemic abruptly shuttered theaters and concert halls across the city, limited audiences were welcomed back inside.
But the made-for-TV spectacle also underlined the jarring divide between Egypt’s celebrated past and its uncertain present.
Crosscurrents of religion and culture shaped this stunningly detailed portrait of the 17th-century Mughal emperor who built the Taj Mahal.
Alice Neel painted two neighborhood boys in her studio in the 1960s. Fifty years later, the mystery of what happened to the picture has been solved.
Alex Da Corte, known for provocative, brightly colored installations, will showcase the beloved “Sesame Street’” character at the top of the Met this spring — but with a twist.
A large retrospective feels at home in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s grandest galleries and should silence any doubt about the artist’s originality or her importance.
The fall retrospective will include some of the pieces from the series that led to the postponement of planned Guston exhibitions at four major museums last year.
Her exhibitions in two New York-area galleries take an unflinching look at the Black Panther co-founder Bobby Seale and safety in schools.
A critic discovers the joy of visiting Covid-restricted art collections, which lets him commune with van Gogh and the gang.
A critic discovers the joy of visiting Covid-restricted art collections, which lets him commune with van Gogh and the gang.
Readers propose research to address police killings of civilians. Also: Why menthol cigarettes should be banned; The Nation magazine’s history; the Republicans’ problem; museum finances.
Divers practicing blackwater photography are helping marine scientists gain new insights into fish larvae.
New rules give Chinese security bodies power to investigate all potential candidates, meaning that opposition politicians face steep odds of even being allowed to run.
Donna Stein, in her score-settling memoir, reveals how she helped Farah Diba Pahlavi create a museum whose collection is valued at $3 billion today.
Donna Stein, in her score-settling memoir, reveals how she helped Farah Diba Pahlavi create a museum whose collection is valued at $3 billion today.
The choreographer Madeline Hollander’s “Flatwing,” at the Whitney, considers a genetic mutation that silences some male crickets.
His trove of pictures formed the foundation of a vast personal collection that is now part of the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Queens.
The new Museum of American War Letters is making a range of communications from battle zones available.
The site where Dr. Jenner first inoculated people against smallpox has struggled in the coronavirus lockdowns, one of hundreds of museums in Britain teetering amid the closures.
A question about pieces of a manuscript found in 1883 that may or may not be authentic led me into The Times’s archive.
A new museum for the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s leading collection of Inuit art opens on Saturday in a project shaped by Inuit.
In the wake of protests from artists and activists over his ties to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the investor agreed not to stand for re-election in June.
Pro-Beijing lawmakers have called for work by the dissident artist Ai Weiwei to be removed from a new museum, and accused local arts groups of undermining national security.
Wildfires, refugee camps and the Arab Spring might be her primary sources. But a retrospective at the Whitney affirms she is an abstract painter, first and always.
Circus classes, kite-flying workshops, escape rooms and other games to occupy your children (as if you haven’t already been doing this for a year) while school’s out.
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In 1984, he quietly amassed 25,000 photos for the J. Paul Getty Museum, jump-starting collectors’ interest in the medium.
The pandemic has led to new contemplations of fragility, and sick or disabled artists are using new attention to imagine a more accessible art world.
With the return of the space theater at the American Museum of Natural History, New Yorkers can again add “space exploration” to their travel agenda.
At a tentative moment in the city’s reopening, Caleb Teicher & Co. inaugurated the in-person return of Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum.
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Months ago, our architecture critic invited a few people to suggest modest strolls around places meaningful to them. Here’s where they went.
Wander down Doyers Street and then discover the monuments, parks and restaurants that have shaped the neighborhood for 150 years.
How Benjamin West remade a bloody battle as a founding romance.
I’ve become obsessed with Thomas Eakins’s “The Gross Clinic.” Let me show you why.