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Byline: Ashley Fetters Maloy Maybe you remember the grainy, pixelated nonsense letters to be copied down as fast as possible. Maybe you remember the gentle reminders to 'Use all five [...]

Byline: Cathy Free Thomas Dambo was rummaging through a city dump in Minnesota when he stumbled on perfection: large yellow plastic bins that had been tossed by a tool manufacturing [...]

The artist Jordan Weber's queenly sculpture in a Detroit park does double duty as an air quality monitor. The East Canfield Village neighborhood of Detroit is not the most likely [...]

In verse and in color, a Nobel physicist and a visual artist collaborate to portray black holes, gravitational waves and other preposterous features of Einstein's universe. If you have ever [...]

Relatives of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's press secretary went to federal court to resolve a disagreement over who owned Norman Rockwell drawings valued at $8 million. A federal judge has made [...]

The sign on the wall suggests: ''Look above you.'' But really, no prompt is needed. It is impossible not to notice the parade of red, blue, green and yellow figures [...]

Tom Lee Park in Memphis -- a 30-acre, mile-long sliver of green along the bank of the Mississippi River -- has reopened to the public following a major revamping. Developed [...]

The dog walker thought so. Sotheby's planned the auction -- at first. In March of 2022, Mark Herman, a dog walker and recreational drug enthusiast in Upper Manhattan, came into [...]

An exhibition at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia is one of several recent projects using the two forms to explore how people interact with art. The Chicago artist Brendan Fernandes [...]

Art institutions are moving away from residency programs that support artists in seclusion, and toward those that engage with their communities. This article is part of our Museums special section [...]

With considerable effort, a landscape sculpture featuring huge granite boulders has been trucked across Washington, D.C., to its new home at American University. For four decades, a sculpture of artfully [...]

A raid of the Orlando Museum of Art, in which 25 works attributed to Jean-Michel Basquiat were seized, has placed renewed spotlight on the unit. For years they operated largely [...]

The authenticity of the painting, which was seized by the British Navy during the Revolutionary War, had been questioned because of overpainting and gaps in its provenance. For years there [...]

A woman accidentally knocked over a bright blue dog sculpture at Art Wynwood in Miami, causing the $42,000 artwork to shatter, witnesses said. The balloon dog sculptures made famous by [...]

The steel sculpture by Hank Willis Thomas features a football and will be displayed outside State Farm Stadium on Feb. 12. A new work by the artist who recently unveiled [...]

It's no longer enough to like our favorite artists' works. By putting on Hopper's fedora, Picasso's striped shirt, Warhol's wig or Kahlo's colorful couture, we want to become their avatars. [...]

No one in Didion's circle knew the mysterious painting's origin. The publicity created by an auction of her belongings brought the first clues in years -- and the answer. The [...]

A gift from his daughter includes 96 paintings and 124 drawings, which will make the museum the largest holder of work by the celebrated and provocative artist. More than 200 [...]

Move over, La Guardia. Newark Liberty International Airport's just-completed Terminal A makeover comes with two monumental new works of art. Not since the Works Progress Administration commissioned 10 murals by [...]

Byline: Erin Blakemore In the 16th century, Bartolomeo Eustachi helped found the field of human anatomy. He is known for his work describing the human ear (the Eustachian tubes, which [...]

Byline: María Luisa Paúl For weeks, a Chicago-based artist has watched in horror as cities are destroyed and millions flee war-stricken Ukraine. Joe Trupia has no personal connection to the [...]

Byline: Ted Widmer Americans have grown used to the Abraham Lincoln of black and white photographs, reproduced in the halftones of our history books. The images remain essential - has [...]

Vibrant paintings on cardboard said to be by the artist were found in the storage unit of a Hollywood screenwriter. Will a museum show resolve questions about their authenticity -- [...]

Byline: Kelsey Ables It has been eight months since the portraits of former president Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama by Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald left Washington, D.C., [...]

For most New Yorkers, most of the time, Times Square is a challenge. Walking through the crowds of tourists, vendors, break dancing crews, and multiple Elmos and Iron Mans can [...]

Byline: JoAnne Klimovich Harrop Sep. 8This picture is worth 1,608 words. Word artist Dan Duffy hand wrote the name of every Steelers football player dating back to 1933 in a [...]

Byline: Petula Dvorak When the National Park Service told Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg that her next art installation will be given the most prominent display in the nation - on America's [...]

Byline: Natachi Onwuamaegbu For three weeks in September, the symbolic heart of Washington, D.C., will be covered by more than 610,000 white flags, each about a foot tall, representing the [...]

Ceramics collection releases -- or ''dirt drops,'' as one artist calls them -- are getting more popular. The magnetism of a good mug is hardly a new phenomenon. But during [...]

Preservationists fear that the Ayer Mansion, a ''national treasure'' with landmark status, which has been painstakingly preserved, may be cut off from public access. A granite-faced townhouse in Boston's Back [...]

After an article about a model who recognized herself in one of the artist's paintings was published, another model emerged. We thought they might like to get reacquainted. Times Insider [...]

The fall retrospective will include some of the pieces from the series that led to the postponement of planned Guston exhibitions at four major museums last year. Nearly a year [...]

The artist Ekene Ijeoma has been working on ''A Counting,'' an art project involving numbers and language, for more than a year. Now, a sign language edition has begun. Kweti, [...]

''Warrior,'' a 1982 painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat, leads a week of 20th- and 21st-century livestreamed auctions at Christie's and Sotheby's. ''Warrior,'' a 1982 painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat that was said [...]

Byline: Sebastian Smee The recent sale at Christie's of - what, exactly? It's hard to call it an artwork. Let's just call it a marketable digital product by a graphic [...]

Welcome to the new frontier, the junction of internet culture and financial libertarianism. What's art got to do with it? ''I want to be a machine,'' Andy Warhol once said. [...]

Its owner, a nurse living on the Upper West Side, flagged a worker at the Metropolitan Museum's information desk. ''Listen, nobody calls me back. I have this painting. Who do [...]

''Living Smoke'' was scheduled for April but the California venue withdrew after an activist said the colorful smoke display could harm the environment. Two years ago, the arts organization Desert [...]

The artist Wangechi Mutu uses pulped newspaper as a material for her sculptures. You can too. The artist Wangechi Mutu, whose seven-foot-tall bronze sculptures of caryatids were the first pieces [...]

The cut-and-paste montages of Black historical figures watching over successful Black Americans serve as folklore to a community clinging to their heroes. In November, while the nation waited for the [...]

Anne Pasternak, the Brooklyn Museum's director, shows solidarity with ''Truth Be Told,'' three words in vinyl that address racial injustice. The Brooklyn Museum thinks it can handle the truth. This [...]

The opportunity to stage ''Black Magic'' in Times Square ''was a great proposition to do something transgressive,'' said the artist Rashaad Newsome. Just before midnight every evening in December, some [...]

POMONA, Calif. -- Deep within the verdant grounds of the Mt. San Antonio Gardens retirement community, the artist Elizabeth Turk was immersed in her latest project, an ambitious work of [...]

This postelection campaign offering employs Lorraine O'Grady's concept of placing people inside frames to promote images of an inclusive, diverse America. The Biden campaign approached the artist Lorraine O'Grady in [...]

Last year, officials selected and then rejected Lava Thomas to design the sculpture, opening a rift between public leaders and local artists. Lava Thomas has earned the right to design [...]

For Print Use Only. This appeared in Saturday's Washington Post. - - - When four prestigious museums pulled back a long-anticipated retrospective of modernist painter Philip Guston's work, were they [...]

Byline: Sebastian Smee and Peggy McGlone The Baltimore Museum of Art is selling Andy Warhol's major 1986 painting 'The Last Supper,' as well as two paintings by renowned postwar artists [...]

''Philip Guston Now'' has become Philip Guston in 2024, after four museums postponed an artist's show that includes Klan imagery. The decision by four major museums to delay until 2024 [...]