Jacques-Louis David, artist and politician of the French Revolution, has beguiled our critic Jason Farago for years — and scared him, too. Let him show you why.

Jacques-Louis David, artist and politician of the French Revolution, has beguiled our critic Jason Farago for years — and scared him, too. Let him show you why.

Jacques-Louis David, artist and politician of the French Revolution, has beguiled our critic Jason Farago for years — and scared him, too. Let him show you why.

Jacques-Louis David, artist and politician of the French Revolution, has beguiled our critic Jason Farago for years — and scared him, too. Let him show you why.

Jacques-Louis David, artist and politician of the French Revolution, has beguiled our critic Jason Farago for years — and scared him, too. Let him show you why.

Jacques-Louis David, artist and politician of the French Revolution, has beguiled our critic Jason Farago for years — and scared him, too. Let him show you why.

Jacques-Louis David, artist and politician of the French Revolution, has beguiled our critic Jason Farago for years — and scared him, too. Let him show you why.

Jacques-Louis David, artist and politician of the French Revolution, has beguiled our critic Jason Farago for years — and scared him, too. Let him show you why.

Jacques-Louis David, artist and politician of the French Revolution, has beguiled our critic Jason Farago for years — and scared him, too. Let him show you why.

Jacques-Louis David, artist and politician of the French Revolution, has beguiled our critic Jason Farago for years — and scared him, too. Let him show you why.

Jacques-Louis David, artist and politician of the French Revolution, has beguiled our critic Jason Farago for years — and scared him, too. Let him show you why.

The Mexican capital is constantly changing, uncommonly warm and never less than thrilling.

The Mexican capital is constantly changing, uncommonly warm and never less than thrilling.

The Mexican capital is constantly changing, uncommonly warm and never less than thrilling.

The Mexican capital is constantly changing, uncommonly warm and never less than thrilling.

The Mexican capital is constantly changing, uncommonly warm and never less than thrilling.

The Mexican capital is constantly changing, uncommonly warm and never less than thrilling.

The Mexican capital is constantly changing, uncommonly warm and never less than thrilling.

The Mexican capital is constantly changing, uncommonly warm and never less than thrilling.

The Mexican capital is constantly changing, uncommonly warm and never less than thrilling.

The Mexican capital is constantly changing, uncommonly warm and never less than thrilling.

The Mexican capital is constantly changing, uncommonly warm and never less than thrilling.

Marie Hélène Sagaspe never met her father, Jean Iribarne. He died in 1945, two months after she was born and a year after he had been arrested for guiding Jews fleeing the Nazis across the French border into Spain.Iribarne lived in Camou-Cihigue, a small village of 100 people in France that was mainly home to sheep farmers. When th...

Janet Fish, a painter who wielded the humble still life as a rebellion against Abstract Expressionism, transforming jars of pickles, bottles of vodka and bowls of fruit into vessels of dazzling light and unassuming beauty, died on Dec. 11 at her home in Wells, Vt. She was 87.Her husband, the self-portraitist Charles Parness, said t...

I was blown away last summer by an exhibition of Gabriele Münter’s paintings at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris. Here was an artist, born in Berlin in 1877, who channeled the lessons of 20th-century expressionism — including the bold colors of Fauvism — while still going strong into the mid-20th century, long after those explosive...

In a diary entry in the summer of 1943, Anne Frank wrote that she had lost all sense of time. The bells in Amsterdam’s tallest church tower, the Westertoren, right next to her own attic hiding place in a canal house, had stopped ringing.“For a week already we’ve all been a little confused about the time, ever since our dear and pre...

Daniya Stambekova doesn’t mean to make ugly drawings — they just come out that way.Her portraits of celebrities, memes and social media influencers have a way of turning anyone into a “Beavis and Butt-Head” character.Ms. Stambekova, 31, is the artist behind the Instagram account lemme_draw_you. A violinist from Kyrgyzstan, she bega...

Robert E. Mnuchin, a Goldman Sachs partner who used trading-floor savvy, Wall Street connections and a deep love of art to build a second act as one of New York’s foremost gallerists and art dealers, died on Friday at his home in Bridgewater, Conn. He was 92.His death was confirmed by his stepdaughter, Lisa Hedley Wick.Under Goldma...

A recent article in Art in America magazine offered readers a primer on “Five Essential Books About Anti-Fascist Art History.” Timing is everything, of course, as pundits debate whether our current era is actually fascist. But if you were to look around the art world today, who would be included, 50 years from now, in such a histor...

It might seem a little stodgy for a group that glorified the spontaneous and the illogical to be celebrating its centenary. But remember that contradiction is baked into Surrealism’s bones.Today when people talk about the movement, they think first of visual artists, especially Salvador Dalí. and René Magritte. Both painters are re...

Wineries and boutique hotels have sprouted along the backroads and once-sleepy main streets of this Central Coast county.

The Netherlands returned a set of prehistoric bones known as “Java Man” — from a species long considered a “missing link” between humans and other apes — to Indonesia on Wednesday, the first in the planned repatriation of about 40,000 fossils removed by the Dutch scientist Eugène Dubois during colonial rule.The parts of the skeleto...

A 27-foot-tall standing Buddha, hewed in sandstone as a symbol of peace and resilience by the artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen, has been selected for the next High Line Plinth commission, to preside over 10th Avenue at 30th Street on the elevated park in spring 2026. Titled “The Light That Shines Through the Universe,” Nguyen’s statue res...

There were beers in Honolulu and coffees in Vienna; lengthy drives across the southwestern United States and repeat visits to Los Angeles on a countrywide journey. Eventually, the airports to gain access to faraway cities like Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates, and São Paulo, Brazil,started blurring together.After a year of cons...

In an era of niche culture, algorithmic bubbles and online echo chambers, it’s harder than ever to have broad appeal, but these 10 performers managed to turn heads by being bold, breaking away from the pack.TelevisionOwen CooperImageIn an episode of “Adolescence,” Jamie squares off against a psychologist (Erin Doherty, who won an E...

How much should an artwork tell you about itself? What does it owe you? These kinds of questions linger in Charisse Pearlina Weston’s ambitious exhibition at the Jack Shainman Gallery in Chelsea, her first solo show there. But before all that, some advice: Tread carefully. Weston uses materials like concrete, brick and metal, and w...

For a long time, when the world of contemporary art commanded greater cultural cachet, Art Basel Miami Beach was the country’s premier appointment for buying new art, meeting colleagues from around the world, and drinking as much brand-sponsored tequila as early December allowed.It was a delightful oxymoron: a wild-child American s...

For a long time, when the world of contemporary art commanded greater cultural cachet, Art Basel Miami Beach was the country’s premier appointment for buying new art, meeting colleagues from around the world, and drinking as much brand-sponsored tequila as early December allowed.It was a delightful oxymoron: a wild-child American s...

A California collector, facing arrest on criminal possession of stolen property charges, has surrendered to New York investigators a 2,000-year-old bronze statue of a Roman emperor thought looted from an ancient site in Turkey.The collector, Aaron Mendelsohn,74, of Santa Monica, a philanthropist and former medical technology ventur...

A California collector, facing arrest on criminal possession of stolen property charges, has surrendered to New York investigators a 2,000-year-old bronze statue of a Roman emperor thought looted from an ancient site in Turkey.The collector, Aaron Mendelsohn,74, of Santa Monica, a philanthropist and former medical technology ventur...

MoMA PS1, the contemporary art museum in Long Island City, Queens, known for spotlighting rising talent, will be free to all visitors beginning in January, the museum announced on Tuesday.The move, which removes admission fees for the next three years, was made possible by a $900,000 gift from Sonya Yu, a multidisciplinary creative...

MoMA PS1, the contemporary art museum in Long Island City, Queens, known for spotlighting rising talent, will be free to all visitors beginning in January, the museum announced on Tuesday.The move, which removes admission fees for the next three years, was made possible by a $900,000 gift from Sonya Yu, a multidisciplinary creative...

This is one cool cat. He is laid-back, literally — lying on his stomach, with a book, like a teenager on vacation, feet kicked into the air. He seems fully relaxed and enjoying the ride.Tommii Lim, a Los Angeles street artist who has spray-painted his share of buildings, created this character to appear on another public surface: t...

This is one cool cat. He is laid-back, literally — lying on his stomach, with a book, like a teenager on vacation, feet kicked into the air. He seems fully relaxed and enjoying the ride.Tommii Lim, a Los Angeles street artist who has spray-painted his share of buildings, created this character to appear on another public surface: t...

The stunning mountain views in northern New Mexico that inspired some of Georgia O’Keeffe’s most famous landscape paintings, like “My Front Yard, Summer, 1941,” will be preserved through a new conservation plan, officials announced on Tuesday.A foundation for Ghost Ranch, where O’Keeffe had a summer house and seven acres of land, a...

The stunning mountain views in northern New Mexico that inspired some of Georgia O’Keeffe’s most famous landscape paintings, like “My Front Yard, Summer, 1941,” will be preserved through a new conservation plan, officials announced on Tuesday.A foundation for Ghost Ranch, where O’Keeffe had a summer house and seven acres of land, a...

Inside Casa Costanza, the Swiss summer home of the Surrealist artist Meret Oppenheim, handwritten notes are everywhere. Some are explanatory: A tiny scroll stuffed inside a dragon-shaped bronze ink pot informs the reader that the object once belonged to the grandfather of Oppenheim’s husband, the businessman Wolfgang La Roche. Othe...

In T’s column 1 Piece, 10 Budgets, we share 10 perfect versions of an item in a range of prices. This time, we’re looking at coffee tables, those horizontal holders of art books, drinks and besocked feet that can set the aesthetic tone of an entire room. Here are T design editor Tom Delavan’s favorites.ImageCredit...Courtesy of the...

In T’s column 1 Piece, 10 Budgets, we share 10 perfect versions of an item in a range of prices. This time, we’re looking at coffee tables, those horizontal holders of art books, drinks and besocked feet that can set the aesthetic tone of an entire room. Here are T design editor Tom Delavan’s favorites.ImageCredit...Courtesy of the...

Dance‘Times Four’Wally Cardona’s reconstruction of this David Gordon duet from 1975 was both an act of devotion to, and evocation of, the ghosts of New York past — not just of Gordon and his wife and duet partner, Valda Setterfield, its original dancers; but to the whole ethos of downtown dance in its 1970s heyday, with its intimat...

Dance‘Times Four’Wally Cardona’s reconstruction of this David Gordon duet from 1975 was both an act of devotion to, and evocation of, the ghosts of New York past — not just of Gordon and his wife and duet partner, Valda Setterfield, its original dancers; but to the whole ethos of downtown dance in its 1970s heyday, with its intimat...

Marina Yee, an artist and fashion designer who was one of the Antwerp Six, a group of singular young designers who for a brief moment in the 1980s turned Belgium’s second largest city into a fashion capital, died on Nov. 1 in Antwerp. She was 67.The cause of death, in a hospital, was pancreatic cancer, Rafael Adriaensens, Ms. Yee’s...

Marina Yee, an artist and fashion designer who was one of the Antwerp Six, a group of singular young designers who for a brief moment in the 1980s turned Belgium’s second largest city into a fashion capital, died on Nov. 1 in Antwerp. She was 67.The cause of death, in a hospital, was pancreatic cancer, Rafael Adriaensens, Ms. Yee’s...

This week in Newly Reviewed, Andrew Russeth covers Jeff Koons’s big-budget baubles, Park Hyunki’s artificial boulder, Joseph Geagan’s demimonde and a group show of photos on fridges.CHELSEAJeff KoonsThrough Feb. 28. Gagosian, 541 West 24th Street; 212-741-1111, gagosian.com.ImageTwo “Kissing Lovers” (2016-25), dressed for a Fragona...

This week in Newly Reviewed, Andrew Russeth covers Jeff Koons’s big-budget baubles, Park Hyunki’s artificial boulder, Joseph Geagan’s demimonde and a group show of photos on fridges.CHELSEAJeff KoonsThrough Feb. 28. Gagosian, 541 West 24th Street; 212-741-1111, gagosian.com.ImageTwo “Kissing Lovers” (2016-25), dressed for a Fragona...

Nnena Kalu, an artist who uses videotape, plastic sheeting and cardboard tubes to make brightly colored cocoon-like sculptures, on Tuesday won the Turner Prize, one of the art world’s most prestigious awards.Alex Farquharson, the director of the Tate Britain art museum in London and chair of this year’s prize jury, said in an inter...

Nnena Kalu, an artist who uses videotape, plastic sheeting and cardboard tubes to make brightly colored cocoon-like sculptures, on Tuesday won the Turner Prize, one of the art world’s most prestigious awards.Alex Farquharson, the director of the Tate Britain art museum in London and chair of this year’s prize jury, said in an inter...

Tokyo contradiction No. 1: This city is very old, with roots in a thousand-year-old fishing village, yet successive cycles of destruction and renewal have left it with relatively few historical landmarks. Tokyo contradiction No. 2: This city is very large, still near the tippy-top of the world’s population rankings, and yet its zon...

Tokyo contradiction No. 1: This city is very old, with roots in a thousand-year-old fishing village, yet successive cycles of destruction and renewal have left it with relatively few historical landmarks. Tokyo contradiction No. 2: This city is very large, still near the tippy-top of the world’s population rankings, and yet its zon...

For a museum exhibition about the Little Saigon neighborhood in Denver, a local artist was commissioned to paint a portrait of a Vietnamese immigrant and her daughter, with chrysanthemums, dried squid snacks and Lunar New Year lanterns in the background.The final version included images of people detained or deported by Immigration...

For a museum exhibition about the Little Saigon neighborhood in Denver, a local artist was commissioned to paint a portrait of a Vietnamese immigrant and her daughter, with chrysanthemums, dried squid snacks and Lunar New Year lanterns in the background.The final version included images of people detained or deported by Immigration...

As part of its pledge to remove illicit holdings from its collection, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Asian Art said on Thursday that it would return three objects to Cambodia that were likely looted more than 50 years ago during that country’s era of civil upheaval.The artworks, “Head of Harihara,” a composite of...

As part of its pledge to remove illicit holdings from its collection, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Asian Art said on Thursday that it would return three objects to Cambodia that were likely looted more than 50 years ago during that country’s era of civil upheaval.The artworks, “Head of Harihara,” a composite of...

It’s the odd vintage postcard you could never resist at a thrift store.In a field by a lake in some Alpine valley, a little crowd lolls about in period costume. Five men are in the blue smocks of 19th-century artists; four women are in that era’s frocks, shawls and bonnets. A final detail that’s vital: Breaking the chronology — poi...

It’s the odd vintage postcard you could never resist at a thrift store.In a field by a lake in some Alpine valley, a little crowd lolls about in period costume. Five men are in the blue smocks of 19th-century artists; four women are in that era’s frocks, shawls and bonnets. A final detail that’s vital: Breaking the chronology — poi...

Maria Balshaw, the director of the Tate group, which includes some of the world’s most visited art museums, will step down next spring after nine years in the role, Tate said on Friday.Roland Rudd, Tate’s chair of trustees, described her as “a trailblazer” and said in a news release that Balshaw had diversified the artists shown at...

Maria Balshaw, the director of the Tate group, which includes some of the world’s most visited art museums, will step down next spring after nine years in the role, Tate said on Friday.Roland Rudd, Tate’s chair of trustees, described her as “a trailblazer” and said in a news release that Balshaw had diversified the artists shown at...

By 1966, the artist Jay DeFeo had labored obsessively over “The Rose,” the monumental work for which she’s best known, for eight years. It was 2,000 pounds of encrusted oil paint when it was excised from her apartment via forklift, and likely would have been more were she not being evicted. Psychically depleted, she dropped out of...

By 1966, the artist Jay DeFeo had labored obsessively over “The Rose,” the monumental work for which she’s best known, for eight years. It was 2,000 pounds of encrusted oil paint when it was excised from her apartment via forklift, and likely would have been more were she not being evicted. Psychically depleted, she dropped out of...

It was a bright and dark year for art. A mold-breaking New York City museum debuted an awesome new home; two others expanded and refreshed themselves. In large and small shows under-the-radar artists surfaced and were hot. At the same time, the arrival of a new political order firing off anti-diversity mandates cast a pall over bot...

It was a bright and dark year for art. A mold-breaking New York City museum debuted an awesome new home; two others expanded and refreshed themselves. In large and small shows under-the-radar artists surfaced and were hot. At the same time, the arrival of a new political order firing off anti-diversity mandates cast a pall over bot...

In the latest example of how the art world is reordering itself in response to challenging gallery economics, three major players are joining forces to sell artwork on the secondary market (as opposed to sales of new work).On Monday, Pace Gallery, with Emmanuel Di Donna of Di Donna Galleries and David Schrader, an executive vice pr...

There’s an adage floating around social media about grief that posits it is love in another form, accumulating as a knot in the chest, a lump in the throat, tears in the eyes. “Grief is just love with no place to go,” the saying ends. But if you’re Jennifer Packer, it goes on canvas, made known through the brushstrokes of one of th...

OVER THE PAST decade, the Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino, 54, has developed a vibrant, unexpected sideline: interior design. His films, including “Call Me By Your Name” (2017) and “Queer” (2024), are distinguished by their sumptuous, minutely observed scenic design, as well as by their ability to communicate visceral desire, so...

Mel Leipzig, an acclaimed figurative painter whose passion for detail transformed depictions of fellow New Jerseyans in mundane settings into mesmerizing enigmas, died on Nov. 1 in Princeton, N.J. He was 90.Mr. Leipzig (pronounced LIPE-zug), who long resided in Trenton, died in a nursing home, said his daughter, Francesca Leipzig P...

A foreboding air greets the 23rd edition of the Art Basel Miami Beach fair opening this week, capping a year of sluggish sales that were financially devastating for many galleries. As collectors, curators and dealers swoop into South Florida for Wednesday’s V.I.P. preview, some analysts have pointed to the $2.2 billion results at t...

Stroll a 15-mile riverside promenade, eat street-style tacos and dance to Tejano and cumbia music in this big Texan city with a small-town feel.

In a single week, collectors spent $2.2 billion on art at New York’s auction houses, including the $236 million Klimt portrait.

In a ground-floor gallery at the Museum of Modern Art, the artist Arthur Jafa was examining a flimsy inkjet copy of Piet Mondrian’s 1943 icon of abstract art,“Broadway Boogie Woogie,” which hung loose on the wall from gobs of blue putty. Also present as a mere printout: a postwar quilt by Lutisha Pettway, of Gee’s Bend, Alabama. Ne...

After the murder of George Floyd in 2020, a Santa Fe park welcomed an art installation with pillars of woven wood encircling an altar. It was meant to be a place for New Mexicans to reflect on civil rights and race relations. Five years later, the installation, “O’Gah Po’Geh Altar Project,” reflects tensions around public funding f...

Sofia Coppola, draped in a long, black, sequin Chanel gown, walked into the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan on Wednesday night alongside the stars and fans of her many films. Nearby, the actors Bill Murray, Elle Fanning and Rose Byrne posed for cameras and gushed about Ms. Coppola and her work. “It’s really surreal,” said Ms. Cop...

In T’s new series The Kit, we look at the tools creative people carry with them. “These are for event carpets, like a step-and-repeat. Sometimes we’ll dye them a specific color, but these are the stock colors we go back to. We used a lipstick red for the ‘And Just Like That …’ premiere.” “It’s made in Italy with a single piece of m...

The Studio Museum in Harlem’s artist-in-residence program has a storied history. Since its start in 1969, some of the most prominent Black artists working today have held residencies. More than 150 artists have participated in the program, working in media including painting, drawing, sculpture and performance. The seven-month fell...

Why should only deep-pocketed millionaires enjoy the sorts of profits that can come from investing in high-end art? That simple, rather noble-sounding premise has propelled the rapid expansion of Masterworks, a company that solicits investments in works of art. Masterworks democratizes the art market by offering average investors a...

Since its creation in 1965, the National Endowment for the Humanities has distributed more than $6.5 billion to support more than 70,000 projects, from landmark works like Ken Burns’s documentary “The Civil War” to small local efforts in every corner of the country. But now, six months after the Trump administration canceled virtua...