The Baltimore Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum both planned on selling works last Wednesday at auction, but Baltimore paused the sale after much criticism.
He railed against material excess, consumerism and fame, but made poetic and useful objects that influenced generations of designers. He died of the coronavirus.
Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually or in person in New York City.
In three post-lockdown exhibitions, the museum stakes out its role in the life of its neighborhood’s multiethnic citizens.
Mr. Black, the billionaire chief executive of Apollo Global Management, said others’ continued association with Mr. Epstein had given him “misplaced comfort” in doing business with him.
Mr. Black, the billionaire chief executive of Apollo Global Management, said others’ continued association with Mr. Epstein gave him “misplaced comfort” in doing business with him
With business travel all but stopped, city hotels and tourist organizations have made a full-court press to attract local and nearby leisure travelers with bottom-barrel rates and extra perks.
The museum was prepared to sell three major works to pay for salary increases and to diversify its collection, but many critics disagreed with the plan.
In celebrating the Met’s 150th anniversary, Andrew Bolton of the museum’s Costume Institute could not have designed a better show for this strange, complicated moment.
Four museums had delayed the touring exhibition until 2024 because of concerns about works that depict Ku Klux Klansmen.
A Lithuanian collector is shutting his espionage museum in Manhattan after less than two years, citing the pandemic.
Visiting during the pandemic can feel a bit lonely. Museum directors worry that will persist far into 2021.
In Liverpool, England, whose tourist trade is built on culture, more than 40 venues received money from a $2 billion fund. That life support lasts until April.
(Or vice versa.) It’s Halloween week and treats abound, from oysters to ballet to a Sam Smith concert.
Cut off by a pandemic, not by choice, they renegotiate their relationships with art and audience.
It’s been nearly a decade since her last solo show in New York. But this fall the artist is featured in two exhibits, including one of her own.
Ms. Lawson, whose images combine regal poses with everyday scenes, is the first artist working in photography to win.
Ms. Lawson, whose images combine regal poses with everyday scenes, is the first artist working in photography to win.
Neo Rauch’s provocative statements drew him into a nasty public dispute. He now wants to put that behind him.
Dealers in Manhattan, facing new challenges, scramble to bring the art to the audience.
He would have rejected the word “activist,” but his politically and religiously informed woodcarvings feel in tune with a turbulent year.
The curators of the Asia Society Triennial planned a really big show. They didn’t plan on reconfiguring it for a city dealing with a pandemic.
New exhibitions of up-to-the-moment drawings illustrate our historic moment, even as it unfolds.
Schools and nonessential business can reopen in some zones that were deemed virus hot spots, but restrictions remain or tighten elsewhere.
The Berlin police are asking visitors to the Museum Island for help figuring out who defaced 63 objects, but declined to comment on the possible role of a German conspiracy theorist.
The panel by the renowned Black artist, part of his “Struggle” series, was last seen in 1960. But someone had a hunch where it was.
A sociologist writes that looking only at diversity of trustees is not sufficient. Also: Savoring the fall season; women in the professions.
Works by Bisa Butler and Barbara Earl Thomas are featured in major museum shows in Chicago and Seattle. It’s a star turn that many feel is long overdue.
The new museum in Colorado Springs is based on the idea that a wheelchair basketball player trains just as hard as any other basketball player.
The visitors may be masked, but the art is gradually coming into full view.
Attendance at some major institutions is a third of what it was last year. Their ability to cope depends almost entirely on how they are funded.
Listen to the audio play ‘Shipwreck,’ bake some madeleines with Sur La Table and make dinosaur-shadow puppets.
Heirs of Baron Mor Lipot Herzog, a Hungarian banker whose collection of masterpieces was seized by the Nazis, are still pursuing its return.
The Detroit Institute of Arts said an outside law firm found there had been no skirting of conflict of interest rules in the loan of a painting by the museum director’s father-in-law.
After decades of false starts and setbacks, the public can finally take a look at the Torlonia Collection.
A Black mother says substance use is seen as grounds for separation of Black families. Also: What counts as art.
Weary of tokenism, Black board members are now seeking institutional transformation.
The grant is a “game changer” for the Museum of Chinese in America, which was also shut down by the pandemic in March.
The Netherlands should show “a willingness to return” items taken without consent, a report said. But past experience shows the path from recommending restitution to actual return can be a long one.
A walk through the artist’s new show offers a master class in how abstraction can capture the fraught spirit of 2020.
An independent investigation found no mistreatment of a Black curator, Chaédria LaBouvier, but the chief curator, Nancy Spector, who is white, is leaving after 34 years.
Critics acknowledge the success the New Museum in New York has achieved. But they say it has come at the expense of many people who work there.
Thirty-eight great statues of Atlas, all now ruined, once decorated the ancient Greek Temple of Olympic Zeus. Archaeologists have a novel plan for the remains.
This week, dive into the British Museum’s artifact collection, make art out of leftover veggies and revisit the myth of the Loch Ness monster.
Guston’s Ku Klux Klan paintings are but one facet of an incendiary artist’s storied career, stretching from social realism to abstraction and back.
As museum staffs demand social justice in the office, an institution sells off prime works to answer the call. Is this the right way to do it?
The museum says that it is prioritizing exhibitions that have been delayed because of the pandemic, including Jasper Johns and Julie Mehretu shows.
These are the sounds of a pre-pandemic New York: A parade in the streets, the roar of fans at a ballgame, the bustle of the subway. And here are those scenes today, echoes of city life that are unsettling and yet also reassuring, reminding us of t...
A triumphal retrospective at the Berkeley Art Museum confirms her standing as one of the great American artists — transcending craft, challenging painting and reshaping the canon.
I’ve become obsessed with Thomas Eakins’s “The Gross Clinic.” Let me show you why.
A consideration of artworks that ask the question: What world will we find on the other side of this?