Arts & Design
Black Art Matters
It’s only fairly recently that the mainstream art world, which likes to think of itself as progressive, has fully begun...
Pig Painting May Be World’s Oldest Cave Art Yet, Archaeologists Say
In a hidden valley on an Indonesian island, there is a cave decorated with what may be the oldest figurative...
Blanton Museum Redesign Aims to Raise Its Profile
The Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin is planning a $35 million campus redesign led...
Moynihan Train Hall: It’s Stunning. And, a First Step.
The $1.6 billion Moynihan Train Hall opened at dawn on New Year’s morning — on budget, too, even a couple...
Can Immersive Art Remain Afloat When Money Is the Object?
Even as the pandemic takes its toll on tourism, immersive museums and experiential art centers are expanding to new cities...
The Smithsonian Is Collecting Objects From the Capitol Siege
A sign that reads, “Off with their heads — stop the steal” and a small handwritten poster with the words...
First Inventory of Damage to U.S. Capitol Building Released
The office of the Architect of the Capitol in Washington, the office that preserves and maintains the building’s art and...
In 177 Portraits, an Artist’s Homage to His Bed-Stuy Muse
Growing up in Bedford-Stuyvesant in the 1980s, the artist Kambui Olujimi had a fulfilled childhood in the span of a...
Congress Poised to Apply Banking Regulations to Antiquities Market
The antiquities trade, which regulators have long feared provided fertile ground for money laundering and other illicit activities, will be...
Seeing Color: A Matter of Nature, or Culture?
The days have turned gray, the future feels black. We’re all seeing red, we’re all feeling blue. Perhaps it’s the...
Superheroes and Trailblazers: Black Comic Book Artists, Rediscovered
Ken Quattro’s deep dive into Black comic book artists started out of frustration. Twenty years ago, while researching a man...
National Gallery of Art Acquires 40 Works by Black Southern Artists
The National Gallery of Art in Washington has announced the acquisition of 40 works from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation,...
Ulay, on His Own Terms
AMSTERDAM — Many know Ulay as the man who walked into Marina Abramovic’s performance “The Artist is Present” at the...
With No Tickets to Sell, Arts Groups Appeal to Donors to Survive
One of the headliners of the New York Philharmonic’s fall gala last month was Leonard Bernstein, leading his old orchestra...
A New Theory About the Monolith: We’re the Aliens
The desert of southeastern Utah is a wilderness of flat-topped mesas, jutting buttes and plunging canyons. It is a fantastical...
Can Jeff Koons Teach Me to Paint?
He loves the idea of “laying in the yard and just looking up, thinking about the vastness of life,...
Seeing the Met’s Greatest Hits as Artists Painted Them
Antonello’s art is beyond category, stylistically and expressively. His bust-length panel painting “Christ Crowned With Thorns,” from around 1470,...
Jack Lenor Larsen, Innovative Textile Designer, Dies at 93
Jack Lenor Larsen, a textile designer who blended ancient techniques and modern technology to weave fabrics that enlivened postwar...
Salman Toor, a Painter at Home in Two Worlds
Salman Toor’s evocative, tenderly executed paintings begin to pluck at your heartstrings almost as soon as you see them....
Dutch Court Rules Against Jewish Heirs on Claim for Kandinsky Work
AMSTERDAM — In a decision watched closely by restitution experts, a court in Amsterdam ruled on Wednesday that the...
