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04/24/2024 12:14 PM
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The Venice Biennale and the Art of Turning Backward
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Every art institution now speaks of progress, justice, transformation. What if all those words hide a more old-fashioned aim?
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04/25/2024 09:32 AM
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From Bananas as Art to Bullets: Maurizio Cattelan’s Got a Gun Show
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From bananas as art to bullet-riddled panels: The Italian artist, in a rare in-person interview, tells why he turned his sardonic gaze on a violence-filled world.
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04/24/2024 10:01 PM
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Chicago Museum Says Investigators Have No Evidence Art Was Looted
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In a court filing, the Art Institute of Chicago fought Manhattan prosecutors’ efforts to seize an important Egon Schiele drawing, denying that the Nazis had stolen it.
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04/22/2024 05:03 AM
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For Sale: A Rare Klimt Portrait, Valued at $32 Million. But of Whom?
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The painting’s re-emergence after decades has come with a swirl of questions about its subject, one of three related teenage girls.
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04/20/2024 08:56 AM
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Archie Moore, Australian Artist, Wins Top Prize at Venice Biennale
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Moore, an Indigenous Australian artist, won the Golden Lion for “kith and kin,” which draws on what he says is 65,000 years of family history.
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04/22/2024 11:58 AM
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Hits of the Venice Biennale
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These highlights drew the big crowds in the early days, from a sonorous symphony made by fruit, to an underwater spectacle to a modern-day Tintoretto.
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04/19/2024 02:03 PM
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Roni Horn, the Shape-Shifting Artist, Has Four Shows Opening This Spring
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The spring exhibitions display Horn’s work across many mediums — a reflection of how the artist, known for her serene glass sculptures, sees herself.
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04/19/2024 05:02 AM
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Books Bound in Human Skin: An Ethical Quandary at the Library
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Harvard’s recent decision to remove the binding of a notorious volume in its library has thrown fresh light on a shadowy corner of the rare book world.
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04/25/2024 04:34 PM
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What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in April
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Will Heinrich covers Beau Dick’s alluring masks, Al Freeman’s jokey book and album covers and Meghan Brady’s radiant new paintings from Maine.
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04/25/2024 12:20 PM
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How Paris Changed the Expat Artists
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An exhibition at the Grey Art Museum explores the fervid postwar scene in Paris, where Ellsworth Kelly, Joan Mitchell and others learned lessons America couldn’t teach them.
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04/25/2024 05:05 AM
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One for the Ages: Sonia Delaunay’s Wearable Abstractions
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A steamer trunk worth of clothing and textiles by the French-Ukrainian artist reveals the sartorial origins of abstraction.
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04/25/2024 11:01 AM
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NADA, TEFAF, Frieze: A Roundup of New York’s Art Fairs
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Beyond Frieze, the options for collectors include events devoted to contemporary African art as well as underrepresented and emerging artists. Here’s a roundup.
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04/25/2024 05:03 AM
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Frieze New York: The Artist Tania Candiani Listens Closely
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She does deep research to create her videos, sound installations and other works that draw attention to the things that go unnoticed.
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04/25/2024 05:02 AM
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Frieze New York: Here’s What You Need to Know
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Here are some tips on what to see, and even what to drink, as the art fair returns to the Shed.
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04/25/2024 05:02 AM
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Frieze New York: Tao Siqi Connects With Baudelaire’s Poetry
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Tao Siqi’s fluorescent-colored paintings, inspired by Charles Baudelaire, will be on display in the Capsule Shanghai booth at Frieze New York.
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04/25/2024 05:02 AM
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In an Election Year, 10 University Museums Focus on Democracy
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A coalition of universities is tying exhibitions into the 2024 elections and the broader issue of extreme political polarization in the United States.
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04/25/2024 05:02 AM
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At Frieze New York, Artists Examine the Effects of Technology
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From mining materials for electronics to a connection to colonialism, these exhibitions offer another viewpoint.
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04/25/2024 05:55 PM
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In May, New York Commands the Art World’s Attention
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Other cities have game, but springtime in the Big Apple brings a concentration of fairs, auctions and shows without parallel.
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04/25/2024 05:01 AM
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Detroit’s East Village Is Being Transformed Into an Art Hub
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The founders of a downtown art gallery see the potential for a vibrant community and art hub in the East Village and are putting the pieces in place.
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04/25/2024 05:01 AM
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At SFMOMA, Music is More than Just Sound
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SFMOMA explores the galaxy of visual and technological design that has long revolved around the music we love.
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04/25/2024 05:00 AM
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An Exhibition on the U.S.-Mexico Border Shares Fresh Stories
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In a biennial show this spring and summer between two museums on either side of the border, artists tell fresh stories about a contentious region.
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04/24/2024 05:06 PM
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Carrie Robbins, Costume Designer for Dozens of Broadway Shows, Dies at 81
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She made a classic wig and poodle skirt for “Grease” (using a bath mat and a toilet cover) and turned actors into Spanish inquisitors, British highwaymen and more.
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04/24/2024 02:44 PM
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Review: Noche Flamenca, Raising the Dead With Goya
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In “Searching for Goya,” at the Joyce Theater, the troupe uses the painter’s images as frames for flamenco dances.
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04/24/2024 01:37 PM
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Long-Lost Klimt Painting Sells for $37 Million at Auction
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The portrait was left unfinished in the painter’s studio when he died, and questions persist over the identity of the subject and what happened to the painting during Nazi rule in Austria.
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04/25/2024 10:19 AM
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These Are the Artists on the Turner Prize Shortlist
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This year’s four nominees are Claudette Johnson, Jasleen Kaur, Pio Abad and Delaine Le Bas, whose works draw on personal history and cultural interpretations.
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04/24/2024 05:04 AM
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How Do You Turn ‘Urban Decay’ Into a Garden?
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Apiary Studio in Philadelphia works with whatever a site holds to create landscapes that match the city’s aesthetic: “gritty, punk, improvised, layered with history.”
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04/24/2024 05:02 AM
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New York Botanical Garden Creates a ‘Wonderland’ Adventure
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A show at the New York Botanical Garden, inspired by Lewis Carroll’s books, will explore his fictional and real worlds through plants, art and artifacts.
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04/24/2024 09:48 AM
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Kehinde Wiley’s New Show Seeks Enlightenment in Darkness
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Many artists are dimming the lights of their museum shows, for a mix of symbolic and spiritual reasons.
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04/24/2024 05:01 AM
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The Mississippi Museum of Art Takes on Mental Illness
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A 183-canvas painting by Noah Saterstrom explores mental illness, his family’s struggle with it — and the state’s response to those impaired by it.
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04/24/2024 05:01 AM
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Manuel Mathieu’s North Miami Show Explores Haiti’s History
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The young artist interweaves the personal and the political, asking such questions as, “How can we build when we are inhabited by rage?”
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04/24/2024 05:00 AM
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Christopher Wool Returns to New York With Big New Art
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In his biggest exhibit since a 2013 retrospective at the Guggenheim, Christopher Wool has created his own show in a unique space.
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04/24/2024 02:44 PM
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In Minneapolis, Reincarnating a Treasured Design Store
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The Walker Art Center looks to the past to bring back its long-admired flair for modern design and contemporary art.
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04/23/2024 05:01 AM
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How to Create a Luxurious Walk-In Shower
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Here’s how to make your morning shower more luxurious.
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04/23/2024 05:01 AM
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The Denver Art Museum Wants You to Sit at This Exhibition
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At the Denver Art Museum, a furniture exhibition lets visitors experience museum fare as more than just pretty objects.
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04/23/2024 05:01 AM
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Missouri History Museum Revisits the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis
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A new exhibit at the Missouri History Museum examines “the triumphant side and the tragic side” of the 1904 spectacle to present a fuller story.
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04/23/2024 05:00 AM
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Museums Embrace Their Grounds to Expand Their Physical Space
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Creative approaches to landscaping and a post-pandemic interest in outdoor activities are driving institutions to make better use of their grounds.
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04/23/2024 03:24 PM
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Phyllis Pressman, Luxury Superstore Matriarch, Is Dead at 95
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She started working at Barneys to be closer to her husband. Then, she became the architect of the Chelsea Passage, the home goods bazaar that helped make it an enticing destination.
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04/22/2024 02:42 PM
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Crafting Tod’s Shoes Never Meant to Be Walked In
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In Venice, a coterie of craftspeople reinterpret Tod’s driving shoes.
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04/23/2024 07:40 AM
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Britain Memorializes a Queen, With Smiles and Bronze Corgis
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Sculptors have immortalized past British monarchs with imposing, stern-faced statues. For Queen Elizabeth II, they’re taking a different approach.
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04/19/2024 11:31 AM
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Venice Biennale: The Vatican Transforms a Prison Into a Gallery
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For its offering at this year’s Venice Biennale, the Holy See chose an unusual venue: the Giudecca women’s prison.
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04/19/2024 09:34 AM
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At Venice Biennale, a Conservative Polish Painter Stages an Unpopular Rebellion
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Poland’s right-wing government tapped the artist Ignacy Czwartos for the Venice Biennale before it was voted out of office. The new government canceled his show, but he is staging it anyway.
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04/19/2024 05:02 AM
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Venice Biennale: Did America Cheat to Win in 1964?
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A new documentary takes a hard look at the persistent rumors around Robert Rauschenberg’s win in Venice in the midst of the Cold War.
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04/19/2024 05:02 AM
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In Venice, Julie Mehretu Puts Her Art Into Context
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Rather than having a solo retrospective, Julie Mehretu chose to have a show in Venice that includes works by her artist friends.
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04/19/2024 05:02 AM
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Venice Biennale: Dissent, Diplomacy and Drama Over the Years
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A look at pivotal years at the art festival, including when Mussolini brought Hitler to the show.
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04/19/2024 05:01 AM
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Venice Biennale: Bangkok Takes Its Place on the Stage
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To promote its fourth biennale, the city has mounted an exhibit in a 17th century palazzo on the Grand Canal.
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04/19/2024 05:00 AM
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Shigeru Ban Displays a New Version of His Paper Log House at the Glass House
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A new version of the Pritzker Prize-winning architect’s Paper Log House is on display at the Glass House in New Canaan, Conn.
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