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A shimmering dream on the Nile has inspired creativity from the Harlem Renaissance to Kara Walker to Beyoncé. But how much can you play with the past? We call it [...]

A shimmering dream on the Nile has inspired creativity from the Harlem Renaissance to Kara Walker to Beyoncé. But how much can you play with the past? We call it [...]

Exactly 150 years ago, Monet, Degas, Renoir and their pals spurred an artistic revolution. Can we still see the defiance behind the beauty, and the schmaltz? The haystacks have been [...]

La Galería Nacional de Arte en Washington celebra los 150 años del impresionismo reevaluando la belleza —y el sentimentalismo— de este revolucionario movimiento. https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaYKhdv5q08fphYVt40M Los almiares se han rastrillado, los [...]

The sprawling California festival 'PST Art' promises a dialogue between 'two cultures.' But painting and physics may have more in common than their practitioners know. One spring morning, one wet [...]

Who needs Brooklyn? From Ithaca to Buffalo, the art is overflowing in upstate New York. New York City becomes unspeakably humid. To afford a Sag Harbor quarter-share, you now need [...]

Who needs Brooklyn? From Ithaca to Buffalo, the art is overflowing in upstate New York. New York City becomes unspeakably humid. To afford a Sag Harbor quarter-share, you now need [...]

Once, the word signified supernatural things. In the mouth of Kamala Harris's running mate, weirdness is much more earthbound. Two inauguration days ago, after Donald J. Trump had been sworn [...]

Once, the word signified supernatural things. In the mouth of Kamala Harris’s running mate, weirdness is much more earthbound. Two inauguration days ago, after Donald J. Trump had been sworn [...]

The heart of the opening ceremony remains the parade of nations: the world shrunk to an hourlong cortège, when athletic prowess becomes less important than, say, country-by-country voguing. It dates [...]

When the athletes march in -- or float in, as they will in Paris on Friday -- you can enjoy the illusion that it's a small world after all. Welcome […]

When the athletes march in — or float in, as they will in Paris on Friday — you can enjoy the illusion that it’s a small world after all. Welcome [...]

Misunderstood for decades, the sculptor and filmmaker is pushing ceramic to its limits. He's dancing. He's making the best work of his career. Something curious happened to Matthew Barney over […]

Misunderstood for decades, the sculptor and filmmaker is pushing ceramic to its limits. He’s dancing. He’s making the best work of his career. Something curious happened to Matthew Barney over [...]

Byline: Jason Farago 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 [...]

In video footage, everything was pandemonium. It was still images that defined the attack and its aftermath. If we had seen the attack on former President Donald J. Trump only [...]

In video footage, everything was pandemonium. It was still images that defined the attack and its aftermath. If we had seen the attack on former President Donald J. Trump only [...]

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 [...]

''Watch me,'' President Biden likes to say when he's asked -- he's asked a lot, these days -- whether he is too old to serve a second term. He is [...]

An exhibition in downtown Manhattan showcases more than a dozen grass-roots efforts to rebuild war-stricken cities. When the German Army finally broke through in central Ukraine in September 1941, pasting [...]

An exhibition in downtown Manhattan showcases more than a dozen grass-roots efforts to rebuild war-stricken cities. When the German Army finally broke through in central Ukraine in September 1941, pasting [...]

La ceremonia de graduación es un raro ritual estadounidense que todavía tiene reglas y convoca la atención pública. Togas alquiladas, música de marcha protocolar, plumas de plata de Tiffany… llegó [...]

Commencement is the rare American ritual that still has rules. That's why it's ripe for disruption. Recycled robes, processional marches, silver pens from Tiffany: It is graduation season in America. [...]

Commencement is the rare American ritual that still has rules. That’s why it’s ripe for disruption. Recycled robes, processional marches, silver pens from Tiffany: It is graduation season in America. [...]

Byline: Vanessa Friedman and Jason Farago When the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute announced its 2024 spring blockbuster show would be called 'Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion,' a lot of [...]

Byline: Jason Farago When the musician Laurie Anderson was beginning her career in the early 1970s, an avant-garde artist who wanted to work at scale had to go abroad - [...]

When the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute announced its 2024 spring blockbuster show would be called ''Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion,'' a lot of head-scratching ensued. Was this a show [...]

When the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute announced its 2024 spring blockbuster show would be called https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/sleeping-beauties-reawakening-fashion a lot of head-scratching ensued. Was this a show about Disney costumes? [...]

When the Kosovar artist Petrit Halilaj received an invitation for his biggest project ever in the United States, he knew just where to go: back to school. For ''Abetare,'' his [...]

When the Kosovar artist Petrit Halilaj received an invitation for his biggest project ever in the United States, he knew just where to go: back to school. For “Abetare,” his [...]

Byline: Jason Farago Every art institution now speaks of progress, justice, transformation. What if all those words hide a more old-fashioned aim? There is a sour tendency in cultural politics [...]

Every art institution now speaks of progress, justice, transformation. What if all those words hide a more old-fashioned aim? There is a sour tendency in cultural politics today -- a [...]

Byline: Jason Farago Feldman, who wrote in 'Unorthodox' about leaving her Hasidic community in New York, has been touching a nerve in Germany, where she is now a citizen. The [...]

They used to call this waterlogged city the Most Serene Republic, but there is nothing about the opening days of the Venice Biennale. The world’s longest-running and most extravagant festival [...]

When the musician Laurie Anderson was beginning her career in the early 1970s, an avant-garde artist who wanted to work at scale had to go abroad -- to one place [...]

The sculptor had a breakthrough in the late 1990s with his torqued metal rings. Then the attack on the World Trade Center, which Serra witnessed, gave them a sudden new [...]

The sculptor had a breakthrough in the late 1990s with his torqued metal rings. Then the attack on the World Trade Center, which Serra witnessed, gave them a sudden new [...]

The Whitney Biennial, New York's most prominent showcase of new American (or American-ish) art, thrives on argument: in print, in comment threads, in barrooms and sometimes in the galleries themselves. [...]

The Whitney Biennial, New York’s most prominent showcase of new American (or American-ish) art, thrives on argument: in print, in comment threads, in barrooms and sometimes in the galleries themselves. [...]

Byline: Jason Farago The Walker Art Center stages a rare survey of the courageous work that bloomed in the Eastern bloc, as artists struggled against state repression. To say what [...]

The Walker Art Center stages a rare survey of the courageous work that bloomed in the Eastern bloc, as artists struggled against state repression. To say what you want, to [...]

A fake Drake/Weeknd mash-up is not a threat to our species's culture. It's a warning: We can't let our imaginations shrink to machine size. This was the year -- ask [...]

Byline: Jason Farago In 1980s Belgium, this Jewish artist dared to blur the lines between victims and villains. A bracing retrospective is now at the Drawing Center. Egon Schiele or [...]

A fake Drake/Weeknd mash-up is not a threat to our species’s culture. It’s a warning: We can’t let our imaginations shrink to machine size. This was the year — ask [...]

In 1980s Belgium, this Jewish artist dared to blur the lines between victims and villains. A bracing retrospective is now at the Drawing Center. Egon Schiele or Ana Mendieta, Amy [...]

The art critics of The Times select their favorites, from Botticelli to Vermeer, Lucy Lippard's memoir, and Wade Guyton's intelligent rereading of Manet. Have art books, will travel. And this [...]

The art critics of The Times select their favorites, from Botticelli to Vermeer, Lucy Lippard’s memoir, and Wade Guyton’s intelligent rereading of Manet. Have art books, will travel. And this [...]