New York Times - Art & Design

A Florentine Villa Whose Story Is One of Family

Wed, 03 Mar 2021 13:00:14 GMT

For three generations, the Caponis’ 15th-century home has been a repository of history, style and togetherness.Bellavista is perched on a hill overlooking Florence’s city center.

Angelina Jolie's Churchill Painting Fetches $11.5 Million

Tue, 02 Mar 2021 19:05:51 GMT

The painting, “Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque,” was a gift to Jolie by Brad Pitt and is believed to be Churchill’s only World War II-era landscape.Winston Churchill’s “Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque,” which was auctioned on Monday.

New Technique Reveals Centuries of Secrets in Locked Letters

Tue, 02 Mar 2021 13:44:45 GMT

M.I.T. researchers have devised a virtual-reality technique that lets them read old letters that were mailed not in envelopes but in the writing paper itself after being folded into elaborate enclosures.

A Provençal Estate That Is a Home and a Gallery

Tue, 02 Mar 2021 13:00:07 GMT

Near Grasse, France, an Italian curator has created a rustic residence and an outdoor exhibition space dedicated to the work of artists she admires.In the farmhouse’s simple galley kitchen, yellow-and-green French tile and papier-mâché masks made by Ottobri.

Lightning Strikes Twice: Another Lost Jacob Lawrence Surfaces

Mon, 01 Mar 2021 20:40:46 GMT

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 I need to talk to?”This long-lost Jacob Lawrence panel, “Immigrants admitted from all countries: 1820-1840—115,773,” hung on a residential wall in Manhattan for two decades.

Smoky Artwork by Judy Chicago at Desert Zoo Is Canceled

Sun, 28 Feb 2021 01:44:15 GMT

“Living Smoke” was scheduled for April but the California venue withdrew after an activist said the colorful smoke display could harm the environment.

‘Guernica’ Tapestry Is Taken Back From U.N. by a Rockefeller

Sat, 27 Feb 2021 01:03:58 GMT

The replica of Picasso’s famed painting depicting the horrors of war had hung outside the Security Council chamber since 1985, on loan from the Rockefeller family.Nikki Haley, a former United States Ambassador to the United Nations, walking past the “Guernica” tapestry in 2018.

Biden Revokes a Trump Order Seeking ‘Classical’ Civic Architecture

Fri, 26 Feb 2021 17:41:48 GMT

Prominent architects had criticized the order for seeking to impose a national style from above.Former President Donald J. Trump had sought to make classical architecture, like the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, the default style for new federal buildings.

With Galleries Closed, Art Dealers Rethink Their Real Estate Needs

Fri, 26 Feb 2021 11:35:05 GMT

Selling digitally isn’t the same, most agree. But that doesn’t mean that bricks-and-mortar exhibition spaces will all return to how they were.

California Lost 175,000 ‘Creative Economy’ Jobs, Study Finds

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 21:44:42 GMT

“There is no economic recovery in our area unless a working creative engine is driving it,” said Representative Karen Bass of California.The Broad Museum in Los Angeles. Job loss in the “creative economy workforce” reached 24 percent in Los Angeles County, according to a report released Thursday by the Otis College of Art and Design.

The Frick Savors the Opulence of Emptiness

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 17:14:20 GMT

No barriers. No texts. No heavy gold fabric. At the museum’s two-year sublet of the Breuer building on Madison Avenue, it’s just you and the masters.“Progress of Love” panels from the Fragonard Room at the Frick Mansion were transported to the Breuer building and illuminated by the trapezoidal window.

5 Things to Do This Weekend

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 10:00:26 GMT

Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually.

Beeple Brings Crypto to Christie’s

Thu, 25 Feb 2021 00:33:09 GMT

The artist’s brash riffs on the news have whipped up a frenzy of interest within the cryptocurrency scene.

KAWS at the Brooklyn Museum: A Coming-Out Party

Wed, 24 Feb 2021 23:59:10 GMT

The Simpsons, Snoopy and the Smurfs are all here in a survey of the artist Brian Donnelly’s 25-year career.A preview of “KAWS:WHAT PARTY” at the Brooklyn Museum on Tuesday offered a room of new work by the artist Brian Donnelly related to the pandemic. The wall of images is from his “Urge" series; the despairing sculpture is titled “Separated.”

Report: New York City’s Arts and Recreation Employment Down by 66 Percent

Wed, 24 Feb 2021 18:59:23 GMT

The New York State comptroller’s office details the effects of the pandemic’s devastation and says a full recovery would be made only with government assistance.The arts, entertainment and recreation sector had seen the largest drop of all the parts of the city’s economy, the report says.

4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now

Wed, 24 Feb 2021 18:44:30 GMT

“Threads,” a group show of textile art; Peter Sacks’s imposing “Republic”; Kazuko Miyamoto’s sculptures; and “K as in Knight”explores ambiguity.

The Union Moved. The Beloved Mosaic Mural Couldn’t.

Wed, 24 Feb 2021 01:13:50 GMT

The architect David Adjaye spurred a painstaking re-creation of a doomed artwork for its new home — and added a homage to the union’s place in social justice history.

Finding Art Miles Away From the Expected

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 23:58:51 GMT

Hanne Tierney has made her FiveMyles gallery in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, both a beacon and an anchor for the neighborhood.Hanne Tierney inside “Into The Maelstrom,” an installation by Etty Yaniv at FiveMyles gallery, which Tierney founded as a nonprofit in 1999.

Whitney Lays Off 15 Workers Amid Mounting Financial Losses

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 21:22:06 GMT

“We don’t know how long this period of extreme difficulty will continue,” the museum’s director, Adam Weinberg, said in an email to staff.Since reopening in August, the Whitney’s director wrote, ticket sales had been down by 80 percent compared with the same period the previous year.

How Plagues Shape the Landscape

Tue, 23 Feb 2021 10:00:22 GMT

From cholera to AIDS, epidemics have given rise to landmarks around the world, be they sculptures, churches or feats of engineering. In this dire moment, their histories resonate.A boundary marker for the Plague Wall in Vaucluse Parc Naturel Régional du Luberon, France.