New York Times: Art & Design


03/06/2026 08:31 AM
The Show the Art World Loves to Hate Gets a Soul
For an unmoored time, the artists of the Whitney Biennial get personal, with an inspired discourse shaped by crisis, craft and community. Look up, and listen.
03/04/2026 11:45 AM
Did Andrea Fraser’s Career Bloom Because Her Mother’s Career Died?
Andrea Fraser had long felt that she was to blame for the years her mother, Carmen de Monteflores, was overlooked. Now Carmen is 92. Can the Whitney Biennial make amends?
03/04/2026 12:03 PM
Fusing the Personal and the Political, With Monumental Results
Doron Langberg used to think their Israeli heritage was incidental to their art. Then the Gaza war brought questions of identity and history to the surface.
03/07/2026 02:02 PM
A Washington Museum Zeros In on the Watergate Scandal
The Watergate museum, now in a pop-up phase, focuses on the political crime that brought down Nixon.
03/06/2026 10:40 AM
Batman and Daredevil Artist Klaus Janson Flies Solo in Gallery Show
Klaus Janson, known for his work on Daredevil and Batman, said he hoped his new solo show could give people “a growing appreciation of what comics can do.”
03/05/2026 09:30 AM
Russia Returns to Venice Biennale, in Latest Sign of a Cultural Comeback
By hosting a pavilion again this year, Russia continues its efforts to shed its status as a cultural and sporting pariah.
03/05/2026 10:48 AM
The Statues Were Mostly Men or Nude Women. So These Knitters Got to Work.
Women in Denmark, dismayed by unequal representation in public art, stitched together a protest campaign.
03/02/2026 05:01 AM
Yorgos Lanthimos Steps Back From the Movie Camera, and Picks Up Another One
A new exhibition in the director’s native Athens showcases his work as a photographer. “I’d like to take a break from making films,” he said. “For now, at least.”
03/05/2026 05:18 PM
Art Gallery Shows to See in March
This week in Newly Reviewed, Seph Rodney covers Deborah Roberts’s collages, Ursula von Rydingsvard’s wood outcroppings and Noel W Anderson’s superstars.
03/08/2026 05:51 PM
MoMath Brings Prime Numbers to a Prime New Location
After outgrowing its original home, the National Museum of Mathematics has added new exhibits and an art gallery space in what was an empty storefront along the Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan.
03/07/2026 05:01 AM
A Panorama of Reimagined Designs
A look at design-world events, products and people.
03/06/2026 12:42 PM
From 1999: Charlotte Perriand, Designer, Is Dead at 96
Le Corbusier famously told her, “We don’t embroider cushions here,” when she sought a job at his studio. Then he recognized her talent for design.
03/06/2026 12:32 PM
Tracking Down a Vase From ‘Bonjour Tristesse’
We help a reader find a prop seen in Durga Chew-Bose’s debut film “Bonjour Tristesse.”
03/06/2026 05:00 AM
Reclaimed Trees Get Creative Reuse With New York Heartwoods
Megan Offner finds creative and comforting ways to salvage doomed trees.
03/05/2026 02:37 PM
Paris Again Merges as a Mecca for the Arts
Many of the galleries showing at TEFAF Maastricht are from France, a sign of the country’s growing presence in fairs and overall rising influence in art and collecting.
03/05/2026 02:34 PM
This Small Statue in Brussels Has a Large Bladder and Lots of Outfits
Manneken Pis, the famed bronze statue of a little boy who always has to go, has an official dresser in charge of his more than 1,190 outfits.
03/05/2026 02:30 PM
How the Florists Behind TEFAF Maastricht Work Their Magic
A Dutch florist has crafted the fair’s massive, colorful arrangements since 1988. Their secrets? Early mornings, intense planning and thousands of flowers.
03/05/2026 02:29 PM
Welcome to Maastricht, Where All Things French Flourish
Evident is the vast influence that France has had upon the Netherlands city, the result of its geography, history and the population’s affinity for its culture.
03/05/2026 02:24 PM
Margrethe Odgaard’s Explorations of Color Come to TEFAF
Margrethe Odgaard, whose new textiles will be featured at TEFAF Maastricht, aims to define the distinctive hues preferred in various places, by different cultures.
03/05/2026 02:22 PM
TEFAF Maastricht, Known for Old Art, Faces the Future
The Dutch art fair, renowned for art and antiquities, works to prove its relevance as the wider world changes around it.
03/05/2026 02:14 PM
At TEFAF Maastricht, a Paris Gallery Honors a Revolutionary French Painter
In the ’70s, Patrick Saytour and his fellow avant-gardists took their work outside the frame, exploding the notion of what painting might be.
03/05/2026 02:10 PM
More Than TEFAF Maastricht, Other Cities Are on Display
Nearby cities in the Netherlands and Belgium will display van Gogh masterpieces, an exhibition on birds, an exploration of the evolution of beauty standards and more.
03/05/2026 02:01 PM
At TEFAF, Photography Displays Add a Contemporary Flavor
As the Maastricht fair continues to update its outlook, an emphasis on photography is bringing together “the whole range of what culture can be.”
03/05/2026 01:56 PM
A Mexico City Design Gallery Hits the World Stage
AGO Projects, which specializes in contemporary work, recently turned heads by standing by an artist who had become a political lightning rod.
03/05/2026 05:00 AM
Inside Mario Milana and Gabriella Campagna’s Endlessly Adaptable Milan Home
A couple transformed their apartment into a refuge that doubles as an ever-evolving showroom.
03/05/2026 05:00 AM
The Villa Beer in Vienna Opens as a Museum and Cultural center
The newly renovated Villa Beer in Vienna is a modernist masterpiece with a dark past.
03/05/2026 01:55 AM
Christian Astuguevieille, 79, Dies; Created Strange Scents and Enigmatic Objects
For Commes des Garçons, he designed improbable perfumes that conjured burning rubber and cars leaking oil. His uncanny art pieces were equally contrarian.
03/04/2026 11:11 AM
To Many, the Buildings Are Incredible Hulks. They’re Doomed Anyway.
Why the country is quick to tear down its modern architectural masterpieces.
03/03/2026 01:27 PM
Is He the Last Man in Naples, Italy, to Paint Numbers By Hand?
The numeraio Pasquale De Stefano’s handmade market signs are a dying breed of everyday beauty in a baroque city.
03/04/2026 12:15 PM
6 Design Products That May Be the Last of Their Kind
Many artisanal practices are hanging by a thread, but there is still a chance to enjoy them.
03/03/2026 02:27 PM
Ceramics, Once the Lifeblood of Mexican Artisans, Are Under Pressure
In the state of Michoacán, industrial agriculture and organized crime threaten a cottage industry.