Art and Design

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.”

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

“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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

At the prestigious fair, doing business at what one mega-dealer calls a “more human pace” can just mean “slower” for smaller galleries.

More diamonds isn’t enough. One jeweler is wowing sports teams with reversible faces and detachable compartments.

At the Art for Tomorrow conference in Venice, participants debated topics like art’s role in a just world and the good and dangerous effects of A.I.

Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Dublin’s Grafton Architects are forging a path in an industry that continues to be dominated by men.