Art and Design

After years of standing by their sides, these guards find these pieces of art deeply meaningful. You might too.

By Noëlle de Leeuw

The museum reports having hundreds of consultations with Native American groups and says it is also returning 90 objects.

By Zachary Small

An Egon Schiele drawing was returned on Friday at the Manhattan district attorney’s office. The heirs said in a statement that relinquishing the work was “the right thing to do.”

By Tom Mashberg

The architect Winka Dubbeldam’s renovation of a nondescript 800-square-foot building resulted in a minimalist house with a maximalist sense of drama.

By Julie Lasky

The French Riviera resort town brims with the unexpected, including a wealth of prehistory, ancient ruins and newer attractions.

By Chloé Braithwaite

To open the Games, the theater director Thomas Jolly has masterminded a spectacular waterborne ceremony depicting 12 scenes from French history.

By Catherine Porter

Jodi Melnick’s new work is performed throughout a gallery installation, while one by Annie-B Parson sprawls in a sculpture park.

By Brian Seibert

The two designers never planned to leave Brooklyn. But upstate New York beckoned.

By Tim McKeough

At the Biennale, Wael Shawky represented his country with a lush retelling of a failed revolution that offers hope in a troubled political landscape.

By Aruna D’Souza

By car or train, there’s no better time to get out of the city than now, during the fifth edition of this sprawling festival north of New York City.

By Will Heinrich

San Diego serves up gorgeous beaches, arty neighborhoods and rich history, yet it still excels at being underrated.

By Freda Moon

Charleston’s International African American Museum helps visitors fill in the blanks of their family’s pasts.

By Jonathan Abrams

The stegosaurus had been expected to sell for between $4 million and $6 million. It set a record in the contentious fossil trade, where scientists fear being priced out of the market.

By Zachary Small and Julia Jacobs

The 20 recipients, including a Broadway composer, a Marvel video game voice actress and a three-time Pushcart Prize-nominated poet, are the initiative’s final cohort.

By Sarah Bahr

ABC No Rio, a cultural center on the Lower East Side, broke ground on the new building, which will replace the tenement it operated out of for more than 40 years.

By Colin Moynihan

Terminal 6 at Kennedy International Airport will feature work by Charles Gaines, Barbara Kruger and more. Developers of new terminals must invest in public art.

By Hilarie M. Sheets

You don’t have to spend a lot to remake your kitchen. Instead, try these six D.I.Y. hacks.

By Tim McKeough

Glyphs and pictographs at a site in Texas represent generations of settlement by Indigenous peoples.

By Dimitri Staszewski and Franz Lidz

In video footage, everything was pandemonium. It was still images that defined the attack and its aftermath.

By Jason Farago

A look behind the scenes at the illumination of the pieces on display. The so-called lampers strike a delicate balance between accentuating the art and protecting it from the effects of light.

By Sopan Deb and Hiroko Masuike

Inheritors of a world shaped by big tech and precarious careers, these New York artists are searching for answers in good faith.

By Travis Diehl

Hartwig Fischer, a German art historian, will be the director of a new museum of world cultures in Saudi Arabia.

By Alex Marshall

Born into slavery, Guillaume Lethière became one of France’s most decorated painters. For the first time, a major exhibition gives us the full view of his scenes of love and war.

By Jason Farago

There’s always more to a photo than what we see, as shown by standout exhibitions at this year’s Rencontres d’Arles in southern France.

By Emily LaBarge

Thousands of years of culture and history converge in this vibrant, coastal city known as the “Pearl of the Aegean.”

By Alex Crevar

The architect who designed some of the 20th century’s great buildings kept a notebook with intimate glimpses into his creative vision. Now it’s his daughter’s final goodbye.

By Sam Lubell

Seven artists with local connections, including Glenn Kaino and Charles Gaines, were commissioned to create pieces for the Intuit Dome, bridging sports and culture.

By Robin Pogrebin

An anti-abortion group had previously denounced Shahzia Sikander’s sculpture as “satanic.” University officials said they are investigating the attack.

By Zachary Small

The fire-resistant house she built in Napa, Calif., with the insurance money was “so different — and I like different.”

By Tim McKeough

The artist Cai Guo-Qiang has designed an epic fireworks event for the Los Angeles Coliseum this September.

By Jori Finkel

A new arts district, stylish restaurants and a museum that pays homage to the Games greet visitors to this Swiss city, home to the International Olympic Committee.

By Seth Sherwood

Jesse Darling is so disillusioned with the art world that he just isn’t sure.

By Thomas Rogers

A new exhibition reminds us that while the famous doll can now do any job, her greatest power is selling stuff — to children and adults alike.

By Emily LaBarge

This artist’s indispensable archive of queer and Latino life on display at MoMA PS1 leaves us intoxicated by the energy of a world too long under the radar.

By Zoë Hopkins

It starts in your own backyard (or the tiny container garden on your balcony): “You can put a single bloom in a flower vase, and that is often enough.”

By Tim McKeough

In New York’s art show of the summer, paint and prose meet in “The Swimmer,” a psychoanalysis of John Cheever’s suburban nightmare of 1964.

By Walker Mimms

It’s actually 118 at the Brooklyn Museum, and the more the better. These vivid color woodblocks have much to teach Instagram, and even Murakami.

By Will Heinrich

The 84-year-old American is perhaps best known for her groundbreaking feminist installation “The Dinner Party,” but she is an artist with a formidable range.

By Emily LaBarge

Tim Bushe decided to shape the hedges in his London neighborhood into a menagerie. They’ve become a local attraction.

By Isabella Kwai and Andrew Testa

State lawmakers voted to pull funding for an outpost of the Pompidou Center in Jersey City, blaming rising costs. The mayor said the decision was retribution.

By Zachary Small

Although attendance remains down from prepandemic levels, the city’s arts groups are having some success getting audiences to return.

By Robin Pogrebin

The portrait of the first lady, which was likely taken in 1846, will be part of an exhibition for the nation’s semiquincentennial.

By Annie Aguiar

The breakout character was initially envisioned as a monster. But when the filmmakers saw it wasn’t working, they found their way to a softer antagonist.

By Reggie Ugwu

Dr. Alex Arroyo, a director of pediatric medicine in Brooklyn, gets to live out his “Star Wars” dreams, practice jujitsu and make a big mess while cooking for his family.

By Sarah Bahr

The center marks the history of the Stonewall Inn and the uprising there in 1969 that inspired a new era of gay activism.

By Sarah Bahr

One quarter of all cultural institutions are dipping into their reserves or endowments to cover operating expenses. Mergers may be on the horizon.

By Zachary Small

As museums encounter increasing claims on their collections, experts say much of the debate hearkens back to 1815, when the Louvre was forced to surrender the spoils of war.

By Nina Siegal

Fifty-five years after Stonewall, a new tourist center suggests that what the riots stood for is old history. But is everything now OK?

By Holland Cotter

Explore a whiskey renaissance, tour the country’s oldest public library and brave a brisk sea dip in the Irish capital.

By Megan Specia

For Pride Month, we asked people ranging in age from 34 to 93 to share an indelible memory. Together, they offer a personal history of queer life as we know it today.

By Nicole Acheampong, Max Berlinger, Jason Chen, Kate Guadagnino, Colleen Hamilton, Mark Harris, Juan A. Ramírez, Coco Romack, Michael Snyder and John Wogan

At SFMOMA, the artist enacts a parable about trauma and healing in Black life — and makes her first foray into robotics. “I went down a little sci-fi rabbit hole the last couple years working on this piece.”

By Hilarie M. Sheets

Their street murals, monumental sculptures, intricate drawings and vivid paintings pop up at Lehmann Maupin gallery on the eve of their Hirshhorn debut.

By Jill Langlois

The small house in Washington was designed to sit lightly on the land: It touches the ground in only six places, and they didn’t cut down a single tree.

By Tim McKeough

Amid challenges in Hollywood, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences renewed its chief executive’s contract a year early.

By Robin Pogrebin

American Ballet Theater brings Wayne McGregor’s “Woolf Works,” which evokes elements of three novels and the writer’s biography, to New York.

By Joshua Barone

The heat could not stop revelers from taking part in the pageantry of aquatic weirdness.

By Sean Piccoli

Working and living on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, they shatter entrenched ideas about beauty and good taste.

By Patricia Escárcega

Gov. Ron DeSantis gave no explanation for zeroing out the $32 million in grants that were approved by state lawmakers.

By Patricia Mazzei

A replica of the Athena Giustiniani that greeted students at Wells College for more than 150 years was accidentally decapitated in the scramble to close the institution forever.

By Annie Aguiar

The oil painting of a saint, looted from the castle in the closing weeks of World War II by the ducal family that once owned it, is being returned by a Buffalo museum.

By Catherine Hickley

“There’s more to me than only couture,” she said, previewing her first exhibition of sculpture. Catch it while you can: The show will last only 45 minutes.

By Nina Siegal

An uplifting new library in Manhattan comes with 12 floors of subsidized apartments. It’s a clever way to find community support for housing.

By Michael Kimmelman

For his latest art project, Javier Téllez makes eight Venezuelan migrants his collaborators on a film about power.

By Blake Gopnik

An exhibition in downtown Manhattan showcases more than a dozen grass-roots efforts to rebuild war-stricken cities.

By Jason Farago

Lita Albuquerque redraws her “Malibu Line,” an ultra-vivid blue earthwork that connects earth, ocean and sky.

By Jori Finkel

The first major exhibition at H’Art, a former satellite of the Hermitage, explores how war and nationalism shaped the painter’s career.

By Nina Siegal

A volunteer search-and-rescue organization reported finding the monolith over the weekend near the Gass Peak trail, which is north of Las Vegas.

By Johnny Diaz

The best open storage adds personality to a room. Here’s how it’s done.

By Tim McKeough

Is the Mob Museum on your list? The writer and illustrator sees his new guide to North America’s museums as a way to help families plan their summer vacations.

By Amy Virshup

For a tiny apartment in London, the solution was a shape-shifting bank of custom cabinetry built on a tight budget.

By Tim McKeough

The lockdown phase of Covid was a nightmare for art fairs. Now, art fairs big and small are making plans to win back visitors — and dollars.

By Farah Nayeri

As museums and collectors wrestle with questions of ownership history, the organizers of this London fair say they carefully vet their dealers’ wares.

By Liz Robbins

Tadáskía, a Black trans artist who is only 30, is already stunning audiences with boundary-breaking work at MoMA, Art Basel and beyond.

By Ted Loos

Tech-savvy creators are flocking to New Inc. The focus is less on making art than on making it in a way that provides a living.

By Frank Rose

The Minneapolis Institute of Art said it would not move forward with a show after the artist was accused of sexual misconduct, which he has denied.

By Alex Marshall and Robin Pogrebin

Stroll along the river, explore a contemporary art scene and admire panoramic views in this scenic Central European capital.

By Alex Crevar

She was a supremely gifted chameleon. But even in her striking new exhibition at Fotografiska, Maier remains in the shadows.

By Arthur Lubow

It was not a picture-perfect ending for the ambitious private venue, whose building is for sale. The museum is looking for another, with room for pictures and parties.

By Arthur Lubow

Joyce J. Scott’s 50-year retrospective at the Baltimore Museum of Art draws inspiration, beauty and humor from her hometown and its people.

By Aruna D’Souza

The Queens home of the Black inventor who contributed to the invention of the lightbulb gets an overdue makeover.

By Sam Roberts