Art

Tate Modern Is the Museum of the Century (Like It or Not)

admin8 May 2025

When the Museum of Modern Art debuted in a Manhattan townhouse in 1929, it faced incomprehension from audiences still uncomfortable with abstract art. When the Centre Georges Pompidou inaugurated its inside-out home in Paris in 1977, philosophers ...

On the Chopping Block: Arts and Humanities

admin8 May 2025

More from our inbox: Trump’s Threat of Tariffs on Films Made AbroadA group of officials at the National Endowment for the Arts are resigning. Credit...Graeme Sloan/Sipa via Associated PressTo the Editor: Re “Trump Seeks to Eliminate the National ...

‘Sinners’ and Beyoncé Battle the Vampires. And the Gatekeepers, Too.

admin8 May 2025

This moment might call for excessive, imaginative Black art that wants to be gobbled up. That’s Ryan Coogler’s new movie. That’s “Cowboy Carter.” Let’s throw in some Kendrick, too.

Melissa Toogood Named New Director of Juilliard’s Dance Division

admin7 May 2025

A member of Merce Cunningham’s final company, Toogood brings to the job years of experience as a dancer and educator.

The New York Nonprofit Where Generations of Artists Got Their Start

admin6 May 2025

The 212 column revisits New York institutions that have helped define the city, from time-honored restaurants to unsung dives. CURRENTLY PROJECTED ON the walls at Artists Space, a nonprofit arts organization in TriBeCa, are two films by Carolyn ...

In an Exhibition of Native Artists, Clichés Give Way to Charged Memories

admin1 May 2025

“Smoke in Our Hair” features 22 artists who boldly challenge the romanticism that often tinges American fables of the nation’s birth and expansion.

America’s Premier Living Dandy Doesn’t Want the Title

admin29 April 2025

Iké Udé will tell you that he is not a dandy, and that he wonders why Americans are so keen to categorize people. “I don’t think I should elect to call myself anything,” he said. If pressed, though, the elegant Mr. Udé, a New York artist born in ...

This Spring, One Mega-Dealer Dominates N.Y.C. Museums

admin28 April 2025

Hauser & Wirth artists have major exhibitions everywhere you look, spotlighting the rising influence of powerful art galleries on the city’s top museums, a Times report found.

An Artist Subverting Propaganda Through Large-Scale Sculptures

admin25 April 2025

In Solo Show, a new series from T Magazine, we ask Black artists to curate a list of three treasured works that they’ve encountered or made, and to reflect on how their practice connects to a broader art lineage. Born in Lisbon and raised in Luanda ...

Marco Grassi, Who Brought Old Paintings Back to Life, Dies at 90

admin25 April 2025

As a restorer who specialized in late medieval and early Renaissance paintings from Italy, he was in intimate touch with the paintings of long-dead masters.