Arts & Design
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Revisiting the Great Chicago Fire of 1871
This article is part of our latest Fine Arts & Exhibits special report, about how art institutions are helping audiences…
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The Curious, Astounding Collection of the Magician Ricky Jay
They took away so much. More than a dozen Buchingers. The 1903 “Houdini in Russia” poster, commemorating when the illusionist,…
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A ‘Holy Grail’ of American Folk Art, Hiding in Plain Sight
John Foster was driving through St. Louis in 2019 when he spotted something unusual on the front porch of a…
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At Frieze London, the Art World Inches Toward Normalcy
LONDON — It was “business as usual,” said the Russian art adviser and collector Alex Lachmann on Wednesday, as he…
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Recognition, at Last, After Decades Decolonizing Art
LONDON — The British-Indian artist Sutapa Biswas has always found herself playing a confrontational role in the British art world,…
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Beauford Delaney: Portraits Glowing With Inner Light
The art of the American painter Beauford Delaney, who died over four decades ago, deserves sustained attention from a major…
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Welcome to Planet Surrealism
In dreams you can go anywhere; in dreams no place is too far. “Surrealism Beyond Borders,” a round-the-world tour at…
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Powerful Auction Veterans Aim New Company at Asian Market
In the latest sign of the disruption underway in the art market amid the pandemic, three powerful alumni from Sotheby’s…
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Destination Crenshaw Moves Ahead With a First Round of Public Sculptures
LOS ANGELES — A new, bronze sculpture by Kehinde Wiley of a 21st-century African woman on horseback, part of his…
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Antiquities Dealer Admits Mass-Producing Fakes He Sold for Years
For decades customers interested in all manner of rarities — ancient coins, sarcophagus masks, prehistoric fossils — went to Mehrdad…
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Mickalene Thomas’s Loving, Lusty Gaze on the Black Female Form
“Camden’s not an easy place to break from,” Thomas, who goes by Mickey with her friends and family, told me.…
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Grada Kilomba’s Rituals of Resistance
Grada Kilomba is discreet when it comes to describing her past work counseling war victims. “It was a long time…
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Julie Mehretu Becomes Third Artist Ever to Join Whitney Board
The artist Julie Mehretu has been appointed to the board of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the museum announced…
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A Designer Who Finds Beauty in Decay
ONE OF THE designer Marcin Rusak’s lasting memories from his childhood in Poland was spending time in his family’s greenhouses.…
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A Nazi Legacy Haunts a Museum’s New Galleries
ZURICH — With the opening of an imposing extension on Saturday, the Zurich Kunsthaus became Switzerland’s largest art museum. The…
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Underground Museum Looks to Philadelphia Curator
Meg Onli will join the Underground Museum in Los Angeles as director and curator, co-leading the museum with director and…
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The Artistic Aromas of Anicka Yi
Six years ago, the artist Anicka Yi created an exhibition on a theme that now feels eerily prescient: human fears…
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Richard Schultz, Designer Who Made the Outdoors Modern, Dies at 95
Richard Schultz, the ingenious industrial designer whose furniture collections for Knoll, the design laboratory that streamlined American interiors, are among…
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Biden’s Pick to Lead N.E.A. Sees Culture as a Community Building Tool
President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s new nominee to lead the National Endowment for the Arts is a veteran arts administrator…
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U.S. Holocaust Museums Are Updating Content and Context
With an urgency to preserve memory and modernize as the remaining Holocaust survivors enter their 80s and 90s, at least…
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