Arts & Design
Reimagining Lady Liberty’s Torch to Meet This Moment
When Abigail DeVille began site research for her public art project in Manhattan’s Madison Square Park, she stumbled on...
Deana Lawson Wins Guggenheim’s Hugo Boss Prize
Deana Lawson, whose images of Black people embody both the majestic and the quotidian, has become the first artist...
An iPad Studio Tour Finds Bruce Nauman Pushing Limits
This has been a good year to try new things indoors. Especially for Bruce Nauman. The controlled terrain of...
Vandals Deface Dozens of Artworks in Berlin Museums
BERLIN — Vandals squirted dozens of artworks and objects throughout Berlin’s Museum Island complex with “an oily liquid,” officials...
With Black Artists’ Input, One Gallery Is ‘Starting to Look Different’
LOS ANGELES — David Kordansky keeps one of Bob Weir’s guitars and Jerry Garcia’s amplifiers in the office of...
Richard Avedon’s Wall-Size Ambitions
The choreography of posture, the rhythm of gestures, the ambiguity of the empty white spaces, evoke the sequential panels...
Europe’s Museums Are Open, but the Public Isn’t Coming
AMSTERDAM — Visitors to the Rijksmuseum’s vast, vaulted galleries of Dutch old master paintings can feel as though they’ve...
Parenting While Black: Titus Kaphar’s Starkly Powerful Works
Titus Kaphar’s paintings have always been blunt in confronting both the paucity of Black figures in traditional Western art...
After 75 Years and 15 Claims, a Bid to Regain Lost Art Inches Forward
The judge presiding over perhaps the longest-running art restitution dispute had not been born when the family of Baron...
At 77, Howardena Pindell Exorcises a Chilling Memory From Childhood
In more than half a century as an artist, Howardena Pindell has made many hundreds of paintings and drawings...
2 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now
Justine HillThrough Oct. 31, Denny Dimin Gallery, 39 Lispenard Street, Manhattan; (212) 226-6537, dennydimingallery.com.Justine Hill’s bright, multipart paintings are...
Return Looted Art to Former Colonies, Dutch Committee Tells Government
The Netherlands should return looted art to its former colonies: That’s the official recommendation of an advisory committee to...
Chinatown Museum Gets $3 Million After Fire Threatens Its Archives
For the Museum of Chinese in America, this year has been one disaster after another.In January, a fire ripped...
A Gallery Resurgence in Chelsea
After several months of forced inactivity because of the pandemic, New York’s art galleries are back, with a vengeance....
Seen Jurassic Park? T-Rex Skeleton Brings $31.8 Million at Christie’s
A creature from the late Cretaceous period smashed sales records on Tuesday in an auction that also included works...
Mellon Foundation to Spend $250 Million to Reimagine Monuments
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the largest humanities philanthropy in the United States, has pledged to spend $250 million...
Baltimore Museum to Sell 3 Blue-Chip Paintings to Advance Equity
As museums face increasing financial pressures and industrywide demands from staff to create more equitable workplaces, a second institution...
Why Philip Guston Can Still Provoke Such Furor, and Passion
Last week, a handful of museums decided to postpone a retrospective of the painter Philip Guston over concerns that...
Early Works by Edward Hopper Found to Be Copies of Other Artists
Most grad students in art history dream of discovering an unknown work by whatever great artist they are studying....
At the End of the New Pier 26, a Surprise
Expanding a park usually means modifying an existing landscape. The designers of Pier 26 faced a far more daunting...
