Arts & Design
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She Turned Her Audacious Lens on Herself, and Shaped the Future
Aguilar suffered a life of body-shaming and self-shaming, which she gradually addressed and confronted through art. In one of her…
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Stained Glass That Breaks All the Rules
“When I started working with Judson, we used the technique of water-jet cutting and bringing in airbrushing and building 3-D…
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An Artist Who Is Always Heading for Home
In January 2020, an M.T.A. bus driver named Tyrone Hampton found a nonverbal child still sitting onboard at the end…
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Painting a Picture of Climate Change
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.…
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Looted Objects From Afghanistan Are Returned
For half a century, through war, anarchy and upheaval, Afghanistan has been stripped of tens of thousands of Buddhist and…
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Art of the Dealer: Paula Cooper Shores Up Her Legacy
In her first show at Paula Cooper Gallery in Chelsea, the painter Cecily Brown showed a large triptych, “A Day!…
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Dia Chelsea, Keeper of the Avant-Garde Flame
The saga of the Dia Art Foundation, New York’s venerable nonprofit, begins a new chapter with its return to West…
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On the Met’s Roof, a Wistful Fantasy We’ve Been Waiting For
The other day I saw a giant bird perching on a sliver of crescent moon. It was clutching a comically…
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‘Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts’ Review: He Made a ‘Pill for the Pain’
Many of the works by the Alabama artist Bill Traylor, stark silhouette drawings with striking, significant blocks of color, are…
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With a Drone on the High Line, an Artist Re-emerges From Controversy
In May, a sleek white fiberglass sculpture in the shape of a Predator drone will be installed atop a 25-foot-tall…
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The Woman Who Made van Gogh
Jo, meanwhile, continued to believe that the letters to Theo — in which Vincent came through as a romantic figure,…
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Jeffrey Paley, Journalist, Gallerist and Investor, Dies at 82
This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here.…
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Work Friends
From left: JARED BLAKE, co-founder of Lichen, 31; CHRISTINE ESPINAL, designer, 25; ERIC MAYES, designer, 27; ED BE, co-founder of…
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Turkey Fights for Return of a Work It Says Was Looted
The marble idol was carved as many as 6,000 years ago, a 9-inch-tall female figure with a sleek, abstract form,…
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Yayoi Kusama’s ‘Cosmic Nature’ Dots a Bronx Garden
One thing the pandemic has deprived us of — for a little while longer at least — is the heady…
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3 Artists Are Urged to Go Big. They Didn’t Hold Back.
For Abigail DeVille, whose projects employ salvaged materials to address themes often obscured in American history, the opportunity was to…
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Niki de Saint Phalle: Nothing More Shocking Than Joy
Saint Phalle always wrote alongside her art making, and this show includes many hand-drawn pages for a book on AIDS…
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Possible Caravaggio Is Withdrawn From Auction; Spain Announces Export Ban
They call it a “sleeper”: With a starting price of just $1,800, a potentially undervalued old master painting was pulled…
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Mario Schifano’s Excellent New York Adventure
For much of the 19th and early 20th centuries, American artists believed they lived in a cultural backwater. They yearned…
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Couple Who Defaced $400,000 Painting Thought It Was a Public Art Project
SEOUL — The couple saw brushes and paint cans in front of a paint-splattered canvas at a gallery in a…
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