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Andrew Crispo, Disgraced Manhattan Gallery Owner, Dies at 78
His fall from the pinnacle of the New York art world involved murder, torture, tax evasion,...
Empty Frames and Other Oddities From the Unsolved Gardner Museum Heist
After 34 years, not one of the 13 works stolen during the largest art theft in...
Rubin Museum, Haven for Asian Art, to Close After 20 Years
It is the first major art museum in New York to close within recent memory. The...
National Gallery of Art Receives Major Gift of Works by Joseph Cornell
Collectors give the museum 27 box constructions and collages by the homebody artist who rarely left...
Indiana University Cancels Palestinian Artist Samia Halaby’s Exhibition
Samia Halaby, an 87-year-old artist, has been outspoken in her support of Palestinians during the Israel-Gaza...
Using the Wyeth Art She Reveres to Rebuild a Lost Maine Waterfront
An heiress to the L.L. Bean fortune who made the paintings of N.C., Andrew and Jamie...
Her Sculptures Were Ignored for 33 Years. Then She Got a New Roommate.
Hanna Eshel did not succeed in the New York art world. Her only reliable exhibit space...
Pope.L, Provocative Performance Artist, Dies at 68
He is best known for crawling along the entirety of Broadway in Manhattan wearing a Superman...
A.I. Can Make Art That Feels Human. Whose Fault Is That?
A fake Drake/Weeknd mash-up is not a threat to our species’s culture. It’s a warning: We...
Goodwill Vase Sold for $3.99 Fetches More Than $100,000 at Auction
When Jessica Vincent bought a vase at a Goodwill store in Virginia, she had no idea...
Jeff Koons Killed Her Review
The decision by an arts journal to allow the famous artist to veto a historian’s essay...
Best Art of 2023
In addition to its impressionist matchup “Manet/Degas,” the Met unveiled Lauren Halsey’s spectacular new rooftop installation....
An Artist Shattering Boundaries in Pursuit of Freedom
Corrado Cagli, an artist of the 1920s through the 1970s, is still defying categories like “Italian...
Conservatives Called Her Artwork ‘Obscene.’ She’s Back for More.
Karen Finley, one of the N.E.A. Four, revisits culture wars 25 years after a Supreme Court...
How Artists Are Breaking the Taboos Around Depicting Birth
For centuries, labor was deemed too messy a subject for gallery walls. A growing canon of...
Turner Prize Goes to Jesse Darling, a Sculptor of Mangled Objects
The artist won the major British art award on Tuesday for works that warp commonplace items...
‘Walk on Through’ Review: Dispatches, in Song, From a Museum Novice
In his new show, Gavin Creel sings about the wonders of visiting the Metropolitan Museum of...
Guggenheim Lays Off 10 Employees as Museums Face Fiscal Challenges
A growing number of museums around the country have raised admission fees and cut staff to...
When Women Artists Choose Mothering Over Making Work
Why does the act of stepping away from a creative vocation still have the power to...
What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in December
Want to see new art in New York this weekend? Check out a Picasso tribute or...
Grace Wales Bonner Summons the Spirit Movers in Her MoMA Show
The London-based designer’s Artist’s Choice exhibition evokes the styles, forms and sounds of the African diaspora.
‘Southern/Modern’: Radical Art Below the Mason-Dixon Line
In the first half of the 20th century, socially conscious artists in the South were great...