Arts & Design
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Ace Gallery Founder Arrested on Embezzlement Charges
LOS ANGELES — The art dealer Douglas Chrismas, who has a decades-long track record of discovering major artists and an…
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How the Guggenheim Got Its Groove Back
When lockdown lifted last spring, some of our big New York City museums were able to slide major waiting-in-the-wings exhibitions…
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At The Ranch in Montauk, Plenty of Room for Art and Horses
“Renate, both due to geography and gender, has until now remained a subterranean figure of Anger’s underground, as if her…
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$10 million is being given to arts institutions in the U.S. to help make them more energy-efficient.
The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, named for the American abstract expressionist painter, announced on Wednesday that it had committed $10 million…
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George Rhoads, Designer of Fantastical ‘Ball Machines,’ Dies at 95
George Rhoads, a whimsical artist who created elaborate sculptures in which balls traveled seemingly random voyages along labyrinthine paths and…
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Robert Ellison, Ceramics Collector With a Giving Streak, Dies at 89
It started, Robert A. Ellison Jr. said, with a white ceramic plate with a border of blue rabbits. He saw…
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Frankenthaler Foundation Energy Project Is Giving Museums $10 Million
The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, named for the American abstract expressionist painter, announced on Wednesday that it had committed $10 million…
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They Pooled Their Art to Create a Nest Egg. They Say It Was a Mistake.
It began as a worthy experiment: a fund to create some rare financial security for artists by having them pool…
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Ed Atkins and His Mum Are Starring in a Museum Show
Of all the strange, attenuated long-distance calls of the last 16 months, the British artist Ed Atkins’s check-in with his…
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The Strange Joy of Watching the Police Drop a Picasso
When I was a child, I remember being rushed out of the Museum of Modern Art in New York after…
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Art Meets Luxury Lifestyle at a Gallery’s Sunny New Location
MAHÓN, Spain — As the total wealth held by billionaires hits a high of more than $10 trillion, it is…
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Return to Form: Fashion Journalists on Going Back to the Runway
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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Paintings, Projections, V.R. Starry Nights: Can We Ever Know van Gogh?
In 2017, I took a trip to Paris, where I greedily took in as much art as I could. In…
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U.S. Moves to Return Antiquity Said to Be Stolen From Cambodia
U.S. prosecutors in Manhattan are planning to return to Cambodia a 10th-century Khmer sandstone statue said to have been plundered…
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Art Meets Its Soundtrack Deep in ‘The Dirty South’
Entirely sonic, the Sims piece is based on a single familiar song, “Dixie,” composed for pre-Civil War minstrel shows and…
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Maurizio Cattelan’s New Work Pays Visceral Tribute to the Pain of 9/11
As recently as 2017, the Guggenheim Museum’s then-chief curator, Nancy Spector, said she had been “hesitant at best” when Cattelan…
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Jeff Bezos Gives $200 Million to National Air and Space Museum
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and himself a budding astronaut, is giving $200 million to the Smithsonian Institution’s National…
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Reconnecting With Keith Haring’s Grace House Mural (in 13 Pieces)
DENVER — The exhibit “Keith Haring: Grace House Mural” may not add up to the happy ending the Keith Haring…
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When Rembrandt Met an Elephant
AMSTERDAM — In Rembrandt’s 1638 etching “Adam and Eve in Paradise,” there are two symbols of good and evil. A…
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For Keioui Keijaun Thomas, the Body Becomes a Vessel
Keioui Keijaun Thomas is a bath taker. This Brooklyn-based artist takes three baths a day: one in the morning, one…
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