Mary Boone stages a comeback at Lévy Gorvy Dayan gallery, taking a fresh look at the decade’s groundbreaking artists, from Basquiat and Haring, to Julian Schnabel and Cindy Sherman.
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Glenn D. Lowry led the Museum of Modern Art for longer than anyone. But the institution he reconstructed (twice) is facing all-new trials.
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Cuba balked at lending the museum work, but Christophe Cherix threw his firepower into assembling a global survey of Wifredo Lam.
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The David Bowie Center in London is a new home for the singer’s 90,000-item archive. It holds the key to the pop star’s dramatic reinventions.
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Palestinian Artists Open Gaza Biennale in New York
The exhibition aims to give a voice to people making creative work about their lives in a war zone. “These small notebooks and my pens became my refuge,” one wrote.
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Sotheby’s Lands a Leonard Lauder Art Collection Worth More Than $400 Million
The collector’s trove of 55 works, including Klimt, Matisse and Munch, will be auctioned in November.
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In Philadelphia, a Stirring New Stage for Alexander Calder
What can a museum experience be now? Meet Calder Gardens. A leading architect, garden designer and philanthropist build a thrillingly eccentric complex for the inventor of the mobile.
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A Bold New Museum for a Flamboyant Leader
Chris Dercon is known for dramatic gestures and frequent moves between major institutions. But he says he’ll be at the Fondation Cartier for the long haul.
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What to See in Galleries in September
This week in Newly Reviewed, Jillian Steinhauer covers Tabitha Arnold’s union tapestries, Carole Caroompas’s dizzying references and a delightful group show on garbage.
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He melded his country’s history of engineering and industrial design with a modern sensibility to help shape the face of 21st-century Britain.
By Clay Risen
In our new series, we help readers track down the objects and styles they can’t stop thinking about.
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Alex Eagle’s latest real estate project, 180 the Thames, has a market, a restaurant, apartments, a pool and more.
By Aimee Farrell and Lottie Davies
Dine atop centuries-old city walls, explore Roman ruins and meditate by the Sea Organ, an underwater sound installation, in this 3,000-year-old port.
By Alex Crevar
The artist Anne Buckwalter has amassed a collection of hand-carved avian decoys.
By Julia Halperin
James Corden, Bobby Cannavale and Neil Patrick Harris star in a revival of Yasmina Reza’s comedy about an inscrutable abstract painting.
By Elisabeth Vincentelli
These sites capture the city’s practical, restrained style — but aren’t without whimsy.
By Dung Ngo
Last September, Spruce Pine, N.C., was nearly destroyed by Hurricane Helene. Luther Stroup’s shop, where he makes five-figure grandfather clocks, was spared.
By Michael Venutolo-Mantovani and Sasha Arutyunova
For his new take on the classic tale, del Toro aimed to defy expectations. He envisioned the creature as a thing of beauty and a work of art.
By Maya Salam
On the Met’s facade, a Native artist honors parkland animals and engages his widest audience yet.
By Martha Schwendener
On the 40th anniversary of the New Photography series at MoMA, 13 artists and collectives on three continents find ties that bind — and a resurrection.
By Holland Cotter
Plus: a designer’s new take on California cool, an exhibition of Robert Rauschenberg’s textile art and more recommendations from T Magazine.
By Gisela Williams
Stephen Prina borrows beats from John Bonham and Keith Moon for a series of performances coming to MoMA. His work is both loving homage and striking original.
By Jonathan Griffin
Planning and fund-raising for the “Cultural Olympiad,” the arts programming that is part of the 2028 games, should have been well underway by now, several experts say.
By Robin Pogrebin
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The work, painted onto the walls of one of Britain’s most important court buildings, showed a judge attacking a demonstrator with a gavel.
By Alex Marshall
Investigators are pursuing criminal charges against a wealthy collector who has challenged the assertion that the Roman-era antiquity he bought for $1.3 million had been stolen from Turkey.
By Tom Mashberg and Graham Bowley
She has come a long way, from the scrappy Los Angeles scene to working with prestigious museums and universities.
By Ben Miller
A thrillingly revisionist history of the era at the Whitney Museum uncovers a current of art that sprang from eros and the uncensored minds of R. Crumb, Martha Edelheit and others.
By Deborah Solomon
One of America’s finest memoirists, in photos and in prose, is at the peak of her powers in “Art Work”— and wondering if her pictures will survive.
By Walker Mimms and Erinn Springer
The museum, renowned for its collection of paintings from the Middle Ages to the 19th century, has announced a plan to collect more recent paintings.
By Alex Marshall
Matthew Christopher Pietras, a young philanthropist sought after by some of New York’s leading arts institutions, died by suicide, the city’s chief medical examiner ruled.
By Julia Jacobs
The mural that appeared outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London on Monday depicted a judge attacking a demonstrator with a gavel.
By Lizzie Dearden
Sotheby’s will host Independent 20th Century at the Breuer building in Manhattan in 2026, positioning the company as “more than an auction house.”
By Tim F. Schneider
As part of the group exhibition “Monuments,” the artist took a Stonewall Jackson bronze and transformed it into a radically new, unsettled thing.
By Siddhartha Mitter
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Chloë Bass’s new audio-based public art project will be heard over the P.A. system at 14 M.T.A. stations around New York, urging commuters, “If you hear something, free something.”
By Aruna D’Souza
In his “rayographs,” he raved, he was finally “working directly with light itself.” The showstopper is the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction.
By Arthur Lubow
Since returning to his hometown, Martyn Thompson has fashioned a living space that’s both a refuge for him and a showcase for his varied creations.
By Alexa Brazilian and Josh Robenstone
With its crowd-pleasers and safe bets, this big trade show tones it down for an uncertain art market. Our critics sampled the global art scene for these discoveries.
By Will Heinrich and Walker Mimms
For an ambitious double-gallery debut, the Canadian painter improvised her way through glistening, musical, bulging and hideous fantasias on linen and on walls.
By Walker Mimms
The artist had canceled the show in July, citing concerns about censorship at the Smithsonian. Now, the exhibition will be restaged at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
By Zachary Small
The raw beauty of Spain’s “wild coast” has long lured artists and intellectuals.
By Hester Underhill
The artist Chie Hammons’s Hudson Valley space also has circular walls and a skylight that acts like a sundial.
By Jason Chen and Angela Hau
Dolly Parton in Vegas, a shrine to David Bowie, a new standup special from Kumail Nanjiani and other picks from our critics and writers.
By Dwight Garner, Jesse Green, Alexandra Jacobs, Gia Kourlas, Alex Marshall, Melena Ryzik, Maya Salam, Jennifer Szalai, Alissa Wilkinson and Jason Zinoman
In a letter to the White House, the Smithsonian asserted its “authority over our programming and content,” but said a team would review what information it would turn over.
By Robin Pogrebin and Graham Bowley
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The appointment of Bénédicte Savoy underscores France’s changing views on the issue of returning artifacts that were wrongly taken during the colonial period.
By Nina Siegal
Kim Sajet, who stepped down as director of the National Portrait Gallery after President Trump said he was firing her, is becoming director of the Milwaukee Art Museum.
By Robin Pogrebin
There’s a bumper crop of museums opening from Taiwan to Paris to Harlem. Look for stand-alone buildings, extensions, remade landscapes — and two presidential libraries.
By Christopher Hawthorne
Spirituality and politics influence major N.Y.C. and L.A. exhibits, and shows featuring Tom Lloyd, Wifredo Lam, Coco Fusco and Vaginal Davis are must-sees.
By Holland Cotter
Monet, Manet and Morisot are highlights, but also an exhibition of decommissioned historical monuments and a show of punishing performance art.
By Will Heinrich
This fall, see Jacques-Louis David, Sheila Hicks and Gerhard Richter in Paris, Kerry James Marshall in London, Fra Angelico in Florence and more.
By Jason Farago
His formative years in sub-Saharan Africa had made him sensitive to France’s restitution of treasures taken from the continent during colonial times.
By Farah Nayeri
After decades of simple stemware and minimalist tumblers, wild, eye-catching vessels now adorn stylish tables.
By Alexa Brazilian
The Weis family savored their masterpieces at home but didn’t lend them to museums. The trove was “so private” that a Christie’s expert didn’t know what was in it.
By Julia Halperin
With international galleries opening local outposts and a Centre Pompidou branch coming soon, Seoul continues to build its reputation as an art capital.
By Andrew Russeth
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Though tattooing is still technically illegal in Korea without a medical license, the number of talented artists has surged, and they’re making their mark worldwide.
By Christy Choi
In his latest works, Friedman — famed for his Conceptual work — surprises by doing something completely different: painting still lifes.
By Ted Loos
The artist is exhibiting five new installations in Seoul, but then there is a volcano in Arizona he has to get back to.
By Farah Nayeri
In settling a lawsuit brought by the A.C.L.U., the Colorado town agreed to fund an art program for underrepresented people and provide cultural sensitivity training to some of its employees.
By Derrick Bryson Taylor
Inside the designer Stephanie D’heygere’s collection of surreally oversize everyday objects.
By Julia Halperin
When Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, an art program helped displaced children process their emotions. Twenty years later, their creations still have power.
By Michaela Towfighi
Eight interior designers and architects discuss the beach cottages, country villas and lakeside retreats that inform their aesthetics.
By Laura May Todd
Lonnie G. Bunch III met with the president at the White House as the cultural institution faces a push by the administration to review the content of its exhibitions.
By Robin Pogrebin and Graham Bowley
The order, which affects buildings like federal courthouses and agency headquarters, encourages classical styles rather than modernist aesthetics.
By Zachary Small
On a narrow block where a convent once stood, the home has again become a place of spiritual repose.
By Laura May Todd and Simon Watson
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The “too muchness” of Rococo painting has met its match with Flora Yukhnovich’s immersive “Four Seasons.”
By Ted Loos and Clifford Prince King
Showcasing “American Progress,” John Gast’s tableau of Manifest Destiny, is of a piece with the administration’s desire for a more traditional view of American history.
By Sam Roberts
Earthy with industrial touches, the home is connected to an office with a personality all its own.
By Laura May Todd
Its director says that the Amsterdam museum could close unless the culture ministry increases funding to pay for a refurbishment.
By Roger Cohen
Joe Gebbia wants to make government services more “satisfying.” Some peers in the design industry are skeptical.
By Callie Holtermann
Nipa Doshi’s furniture commission, which evokes both religious and self-care rituals, honors some of the influential women in her life.
By Jane Margolies
“Design and Disability,” on view in London, goes beyond the precepts of “universal design” to celebrate particular identities and bodies.
By Deyan Sudjic
At San Francisco’s de Young, an Indigenous team of scholars and artists is rethinking the display of Native objects and helping to rebuild fraught community ties.
By Carolina A. Miranda
For some art lovers, there’s no pathway too narrow for a casual scooch between a spectator and a painting to seem unwise.
By Wesley Morris
Shore’s new book, “Early Work,” hints at the towering figure he would become in photography, a master of elegantly prosaic scenes.
By Arthur Lubow
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Some museums are changing or canceling exhibits, especially those that involve artworks that engage with gender, sexuality and race.
By Zachary Small
These four artists are turning to centuries-old stories of migration to expand contemporary understandings of race, ethnicity and origin.
By Aruna D’Souza
The Trump administration highlighted material dealing with topics like sexuality, slavery and immigration.
By Zachary Small
N.C. Wyeth’s colossal 1932 mural, “Apotheosis of the Family,” re-emerges in a gleaming new round barn after years in storage.
By Ralph Blumenthal and Caroline Gutman
Bloom patterns could be useful, as engineers build folding structures to send to outer space. They’re also very pretty.
By Kenneth Chang
These five people are among those leading the president’s efforts to put his stamp on national cultural institutions, buildings and policies.
By Zachary Small
The exhibition “Beloved Suburbs” drew more than 150,000 visitors to France’s Museum of the History of Immigration. “We really recognize ourselves in the exhibition,” one said.
By Catherine Porter and Ségolène Le Stradic
A statue in Florida has prompted complaints about its shoes, arm and head but also a discussion about art and representations of historic figures.
By Adeel Hassan
Nearly a year after Hurricane Helene severely damaged the popular River Arts District, the rebuilding process continues in a gradual manner.
By Jonathan Abrams and Erin Brethauer
The interdisciplinary artist Jeffrey Gibson shares five things he wishes he’d made.
By Coco Romack
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Carnegie Museums employees objected that a fund-raiser for a nonprofit with ties to a senator had violated museum policy against renting space for partisan political events.
By Zachary Small
Jean-Pascal Lévy-Trumet spent three decades designing experiences for other people. Then, he built his dream home by the sea.
By Nancy Hass and Anthony Cotsifas
With rebuilding after disasters stretching to years, factory-built houses aspire to faster delivery, longer life than trailers — and to “lift people’s spirits.”
By James S. Russell
In a cleareyed show at MoMA PS1 in Queens, artists wrestle with the refuse of consumer society. They’re not just worried about the environment. They’re rummaging for the human spirit.
By Travis Diehl
Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan’s art commission hits a hot button. “I thought they might say, ‘We don’t want to wade in these waters’ — and the opposite happened,” the painter said.
By Arthur Lubow and George Etheredge
Sleuths have solved three of the panels of the Kryptos sculpture at the agency’s headquarters. Now the artwork’s creator is announcing the sale of the solution to the fourth.
By John Schwartz and Jonathan Corum
The Trump administration’s plan to, in effect, audit the content of Smithsonian museums drew criticism from groups that represent scholars and promote free speech.
By Graham Bowley, Jennifer Schuessler and Robin Pogrebin
They transformed dolls into one-of-a-kind pieces that sold for thousands of dollars. A married couple, they died in a car crash in Italy.
By Joanne Kaufman
These humble, concrete blobs, designed to ease entry into delis and other stores, can resemble glaciers, pancakes or clamshells and affirm the civic compact.
By Michael Kimmelman and Tom Wilson
Oh Hwangtaek has amassed one of the largest collections of Polish posters outside Poland. He shares his unlikely passion at his own museum in Seoul.
By John Yoon, Zuzanna Piekarska and Chang W. Lee
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The Trump administration is giving museums 120 days to replace “divisive or ideologically driven language with unifying, historically accurate and constructive descriptions.”
By Graham Bowley, Jennifer Schuessler and Robin Pogrebin
From an airy sanctuary in Bali to a maximalist experiment in Belgium, a roundup of inspiring resting spots.
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Shortly before Matthew Christopher Pietras’s body was discovered, the Metropolitan Opera had been told that the $10 million he had just donated did not belong to him.
By Julia Jacobs
A Los Angeles artist keeps upping the ante, whether photographing Arctic glaciers through lenses made of their own ice or using a camera that captures light itself at a trillion frames per second.
By Lawrence Weschler
The National Museum of American History removed some details of the charges President Trump faced when it replaced a display about his two impeachments.
By Graham Bowley
Inside their Austin bungalow, a couple has created a vibrant, salon-like atmosphere.
By Suleman Anaya
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