New York Times: Art & Design


04/14/2025 07:55 PM
At the Met Roof Reopening, These Sculptures Must Be Heard
Along the Manhattan skyline, Jennie C. Jones turns Minimalist sculptures into sonic ‘wind’ instruments. It’s the last Roof Garden commission until 2030.
04/11/2025 01:58 PM
U.S. Architecture Pavilion Draws Lessons From the American Porch
To heal a nation, the U.S. Pavilion in Venice showcases the surprising permutations of the porch.
04/10/2025 05:00 AM
Martin Wong, Medici of the Aerosol Art Set
A patron saw the beauty in graffiti when most of the world thought it was mere nuisance. Now the writing (of Lee Quiñones, Rammellzee, Futura and others) is on the museum wall.
04/15/2025 07:51 AM
It’s Springtime in Paris for David Hockney
A huge new exhibition at the Louis Vuitton Foundation is a late-career retrospective with a sense of new beginnings.
04/10/2025 03:45 PM
Canceled Humanities Grants to Help Pay for Trump’s ‘Garden of Heroes’
The National Endowment for the Humanities, which supports museums and historical sites, will redirect funds to the president’s planned patriotic sculpture garden.
04/08/2025 04:24 AM
Art Sales Fell by 12% Last Year, Art Basel and UBS Report Says
“Geopolitical tensions, economic volatility and trade fragmentation” drove the market down, according to the Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report.
04/08/2025 04:19 PM
Ruth Asawa’s Astonishing Universe Began at Her Door
As the artist’s posthumous retrospective opens at SFMOMA, a reporter visits her family home and studio in Noe Valley, the center of her pioneering sculpture practice.
04/03/2025 05:01 AM
The ‘Monstrous Beauty’ of Pretty Porcelains at the Met
A show at the Met offers a feminist revision of Chinoiserie, a decorative style that swept through Europe in the age of empires and seeded stereotypes of Asian women.
04/17/2025 04:30 PM
What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in April
This week in Newly Reviewed, Jillian Steinhauer covers “Erotic City,” a group show about jobs, and Carolyn Lazard’s short films on health care.
04/21/2025 04:34 PM
Kent Monkman’s Brings His Work to the Denver Art Museum
Denver hosts the first U.S. museum survey of Kent Monkman, a member of the Fisher River Cree Nation whose large paintings are inspired in part by old masters.
04/21/2025 04:29 PM
Ann Craven, an Artist Famed for Recreating What She Lost, Is on Show in Maine
In 1999 Ann Craven lost nearly everything in a studio fire. Since then, she has made “revisitation” paintings. Next month, these works will be shown across Maine.
04/21/2025 04:21 PM
At 82, the Artist Francine Tint Is Finally ‘Having Her Time’
At 82, the widely admired artist is getting the higher level of recognition she has sought for decades.
04/21/2025 04:17 PM
Ai Weiwei Brings His Largest Show Ever to Seattle
A show now at the Seattle Art Museum is the largest in the U.S. in the 40-year career of the renowned Chinese artist.
04/21/2025 04:06 PM
The Old Courthouse in Downtown St. Louis Is Ready to Reopen
The 19th-century Old Courthouse, part of the city’s downtown and Gateway Arch National Park, is set to reopen in May after a $27.5 million renovation.
04/21/2025 01:13 PM
Alexey Brodovitch’s ‘Ballet’ Captured the Magic of Dance
Alexey Brodovitch, the transformative art director of Harper’s Bazaar, made one book, “Ballet,” a photographic landmark that has been reprinted for its 80th anniversary.
04/20/2025 05:00 AM
It’s Springtime on Polaris-9b, and the Exoflowers Are Blooming
An artist imagines the flora of distant, nonexistent worlds.
04/18/2025 10:37 AM
House Democrats Criticize Trump’s Smithsonian Order
In a letter to Vice President JD Vance, four U.S. representatives on a committee that oversees the cultural institution urged him to reject President Trump’s push to reshape it.
04/21/2025 02:47 PM
Two Leaders Who Built Gleaming Museums Face a Fraught Art Landscape
As Thelma Golden and Lisa Phillips put finishing touches on their expanded buildings, they assess their legacies, and the cultural shift ahead.
04/20/2025 10:41 PM
Guidebooks to New York Tell How to Survive Among the Natives
A collection of indelible photographs, maps and “intimate guides” from 1807 to 1940 went beyond extolling the virtues of the city.
04/18/2025 04:51 PM
Rashid Johnson Finds His Promised Land at the Guggenheim
The artist’s first major museum survey fills Frank Lloyd Wright’s spiral with a rich mix of media, a view of the polymathic flux of a 25-year career, and a sense of healing.
04/17/2025 12:12 PM
Sculpture Museum in Dallas Names a New Director
Carlos Basualdo, a veteran curator who has spent most of his career at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, will take over the Nasher Sculpture Center next month.
04/21/2025 06:46 PM
Despite Setbacks, Harlem’s Brotherhood Sister Sol Thrives
Three years after opening its visual jolt of a new headquarters, the Brotherhood Sister Sol has become even more of a haven for the young people it serves.
04/17/2025 05:00 AM
For This Artist, Doomscrolling Isn’t a Bad Thing
Jon Rafman’s liberal use of artificial intelligence is on full, dark display in an exhibition that features a kind of MTV warped by internet subcultures.
04/16/2025 05:02 AM
The Grand Egyptian Museum Is Finally Open. (Well, Mostly.)
The Grand Egyptian Museum, outside Cairo, has been delayed by revolutions, wars, financial crises and a pandemic. At long last, here’s a look inside.
04/16/2025 05:00 AM
Where the Precious Things Are: Maurice Sendak’s Art Collection to Be Auctioned
From erotic drawings to Mickey Mouse on a motorcycle, works in the author’s home nurtured his creativity. They’ll star at Christie’s June sales.
04/17/2025 11:46 AM
How Los Angeles Museums Prepare for Fires and Other Catastrophes
Despite rumors that the Getty Villa had been destroyed by the fires in January, it survived. Officials credit that to their planning and preparations that can serve as models to other institutions.
04/15/2025 05:01 AM
A Danish Museum Examines Our Fascination With the Ocean
“Ocean,” now on view on the coast of Denmark, fuses past with present, and art with science to raise urgent questions about our relationship with the sea.