The cuneiform tablets and other objects had been held by the Museum of the Bible, founded by the family that owns the Hobby Lobby craft store chain, and by Cornell University.
After months of livestreamed marathons, the new music collective was back to in-person performance with a two-day festival.
As director, he oversaw Frank Gehry’s reimagining of the historic 1928 building and dealt with an institution reeling from reports of abusive behavior on the part of museum managers.
The curators, as well as conservators and other staff, are looking to join a local of the United Auto Workers.
A video installation by Wu Tsang with Beverly Glenn-Copeland is part of a series of shows with a shared political charge, a taste of what can be.
Wu Tsang’s latest installation, a restored Art Deco hotel — and more.
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The band, known for its hard-charging, blues-inflected rock, was one of the biggest acts of the 1980s, selling more than 50 million albums.
The more than 600 works he gave to the Met enriched the museum’s collection enormously.
A tug of war over the legacy of the Solidarity movement has much to do with the battle over which direction the country should go today.
Grants awarded to 79 U.S. visual arts institutions will finance energy-efficiency initiatives and measures for protection from wildfires and earthquakes.
Will turbulent times end at the Museum of Arts and Design, where a rapid turnover of executives and visions has thrown the institution into disarray?
The artist’s career-spanning survey at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is about to close.
It turns out the hobby is a great pandemic coping technique. But too many honeybees in the city could also pose an environmental threat.
Tourists, particularly Black travelers, are paying close attention to how destinations and travel service providers approach diversity and equity after a year of social justice protests.
My son and I took on what seemed like a simple project: fold one origami crane every day during the pandemic. Together, we discovered over the year how making art helps people bear the unbearable.
While some indulged in baking through lockdown, a husband-and-wife team discovered an exceptionally large and well-preserved group of Jurassic starfish.
The busts of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a slave trader and Confederate general, and two U.S. Navy admirals were removed on Friday and installed at the Tennessee State Museum.
After expulsion from Egypt left him penniless, he befriended André Breton and Marcel Duchamp and amassed an enormous collection of priceless art.
His videos have made him one of the most acclaimed artists of his generation, but what really animates this British artist are the emotions that slip off the screen.
The concerts, which are to run between Aug. 16 to Aug. 21, are being organized to celebrate the city’s reopening and promote tourism.
Curators at the Humboldt Forum in Berlin hope an inaugural exhibition of animal-tusk artifacts shows the institution is serious about its colonial baggage.
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The status of “art” can elevate an object into something with which we struggle to live naturally. What if we were more accepting of art’s impermanence?
New research suggests the iconic Xerces blue butterfly may have been its own species.
The immersive van Gogh exhibitions make a critic reflect on her encounters with his paintings and question what it means to have an intimate connection with an artist.
The arts — Broadway, nightclubs, museums, concert halls — are coming back to life after the shutdown. Getting it right will be vital to the city’s comeback.
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Emmanuelle Polack is the face of the French museum’s efforts to return stolen works. But some discoveries have put her employer in an awkward situation.
The pandemic taught us that time might be our most valuable resource for building the environments we want.
People like the ones who bring food to your door have been more likely than regular employees to confront health and financial challenges.
Drawings a museum curator bought at the Nice auction
A big, juicy exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts turns an embracing eye on Black artists in the American South.
In often sprawling works that used old photos, discarded clothes and other found objects, he pondered loss, chance and memory.
A sculpture at an exhibition in Milan provides a graphic reminder of the terror attacks. The Guggenheim Museum’s former chief curator said it may best be appreciated, for now, outside New York.
The donation will finance renovations and a new learning center at the Smithsonian museum on the National Mall.
Ever wonder what happened to the artist’s 85-foot stairwell, sold at auction? It’s at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver — sliced and diced and on loan from a collector.
An exhibition in Amsterdam explores the wandering life and untimely death of Hansken, an Asian elephant who became a spectacle in 17th-century Europe.
At an important vantage point in history, there will be no special shows looking back at the 2001 attacks, and critics say the museum keeps too tight a rein on the story.
Female authorship gives meaning to the images in “The New Woman Behind the Camera” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, an inspired and inspiring exhibition.
When the nation’s foremost museum got serious about the nation’s first inhabitants, they needed an Indigenous lodestar. They found one in Norby, its first curator of Native American art.
Bill de Blasio unveiled a $635 million plan to restore the system post-lockdown and give students extra academic and mental health support.
For “The Land Claim” at the Parrish Art Museum, she digs deep into the suppressed stories of communities of color in the Hamptons.
What does it mean to watch and move through space, in dance and in life? As we emerge from the pandemic, we still have a moment to hold on to all that’s slow.
The new media pioneer explores the technology and science shaping our lives in her solo show at the New Museum.
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Let gorgeous ceilings, celestial views and snapshots of history catch your eye.
The case of Curt Glaser, an art historian who sold his collection before fleeing Germany, illustrates how differently museums can respond to similar restitution claims.
New York senior communities take advantage of the city’s cultural institutions by inviting artists and experts to their facilities.
The graphic designer Milton Glaser died one year ago on Saturday.
The storage facility of the Cranbrook Academy of Art, in the unlikely enclave of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., is a treasure trove of iconic objects.
With the help of gallery owners, patrons, collectors and artists, T explores some of the complications behind an obvious question.
Sotheby’s announced last month that it would auction a “lost library” of English literature, including a rare cache of Brontë material. Take a look at some of the rarities.
Here's why the rock star has been on our minds.
How a crisis can help us rethink space and reimagine the future.
Crosscurrents of religion and culture shaped this stunningly detailed portrait of the 17th-century Mughal emperor who built the Taj Mahal.
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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.
