New York Times - Art & Design

Employees at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Vote to Unionize

Mon, 23 Nov 2020 20:24:23 GMT

The move comes as museum workers across the country increasingly look to collective bargaining as a way to reform their institutions.Visitors at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, last year. Of the recent vote to unionize, the museum’s director, Matthew Teitelbaum, said, “We are committed to working with the union moving forward.”

Met Museum Appoints Chief Diversity Officer

Mon, 23 Nov 2020 19:21:56 GMT

Lavita McMath Turner will lead new initiatives at the museum as it aims to become more inclusive.“The Met is committed to ensuring that both its staff and visitors feel valued and are able to experience the Museum as a more diverse, equitable, inclusive and accessible cultural institution,” Lavita McMath Turner said.

Is Margaret Thatcher’s Hometown Ready to Put Her on a Pedestal?

Mon, 23 Nov 2020 17:33:30 GMT

The first woman to be prime minister of Britain is seen as a political colossus abroad, but her 11 years in power have a complicated legacy at home.The sculptor Douglas Jennings has created a statue of Margaret Thatcher that will be erected in Grantham, England, where she was born in 1925.

Melania Trump Announces a Noguchi Sculpture for the White House

Sat, 21 Nov 2020 01:51:12 GMT

Isamu Noguchi’s 1962 installation, “Floor Frame,” will be the first piece by an Asian-American artist in the White House collection.A cast of the editioned bronze Isamu Noguchi sculpture, “Floor Frame,” from the collection of the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum. Another cast from the edition has been given to the White House and is to be installed in the Rose Garden.

Elders and an Artist Bring a Social Sculpture to Life

Fri, 20 Nov 2020 17:16:19 GMT

Elizabeth Turk imagined illuminated umbrellas spreading hope during the pandemic. A retirement community said yes, and became her canvas.

Smithsonian Museums Are Latest to Shutter as Virus Surges

Thu, 19 Nov 2020 20:14:11 GMT

Eight D.C.-area institutions that had reopened to the public will again temporarily close their doors, starting Monday.Visitors to the Smithsonian American Art Museum when it reopened in September. It is now among the museums in Washington that are closing on Monday.

5 Things to Do This Weekend

Thu, 19 Nov 2020 18:04:42 GMT

Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually or in person in New York City.

3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now

Thu, 19 Nov 2020 16:41:41 GMT

Leilah Babirye’s luminous sculptural figures, Luigi Ghirri’s vintage photographs, and Paul Chan’s Wittgenstein drawings

Derek Fordjour, From Anguish to Transcendence

Thu, 19 Nov 2020 14:15:40 GMT

Woven into his new work at Petzel Gallery are lessons drawn from his own journey to art stardom, and from a year of Black grief.Derek Fordjour outside his studio in an industrial building in the Bronx, where the artist was preparing for a solo show at Petzel Gallery.

François Catroux, Decorator of Choice for Aristocrats, Dies at 83

Thu, 19 Nov 2020 02:41:32 GMT

Along with his wife, a muse of Yves Saint Laurent, he was at the center of Paris’s glittering 1970s-era social scene, a complicated fantasia at which art, style and money collided.Russian Constructivist paintings dominated a room designed by François Catroux, pictured here in 1989.

Pig Couch on Craigslist: The Full Story

Thu, 19 Nov 2020 00:51:42 GMT

We did find out where it is, though.

A Festival of New Asian Art, Seeking a Direction

Wed, 18 Nov 2020 21:54:39 GMT

“We Do Not Dream Alone,” the first Asia Society Triennial of contemporary art, is in search of a reason for being.Taca Sui’s hushed landscape photography includes “Wen River” (2015), an archival pigment print on baryta paper.

Director of Mass MoCA, Playground for Artists, Moves On

Wed, 18 Nov 2020 19:24:20 GMT

After three decades, Joseph C. Thompson feels ready to let go (sort of).Mr. Thompson first envisioned a Skyspace at Mass MoCA, one of James Turrell’s light-manipulating, perception-altering experiments, decades ago. Built in a former water tower, it will hold 70 viewers and open in January.

5 Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram Now

Wed, 18 Nov 2020 14:02:39 GMT

A look at a photographer who follows graffiti artists, a student chronicling Black art, a collective devoted to social justice and more.

Nearly a Third of U.S. Museums Remain Closed by Pandemic, Survey Shows

Tue, 17 Nov 2020 20:08:25 GMT

An industry group says that the financial state of the country’s museums “is moving from bad to worse.”The San Diego Natural History Museum, which reopened briefly during the pandemic, is now one of the many museums across the country that are closed.

Academy Museum Gives Debbie Reynolds Her Due as a Costume Conservator

Mon, 16 Nov 2020 19:58:33 GMT

When the “Singin’ in the Rain” actress was alive, the film academy turned up its nose at her fabled costume collection. Now it has gone to her son with hat in hand.“My mother was one of the most forgiving people ever,” said Todd Fisher, Debbie Reynolds’s son, who inherited the remaining part of her collection. “She would never want me to hold a grudge.”

A Chagall Curtain Needs a New Home With a Tall Ceiling

Sun, 15 Nov 2020 13:03:40 GMT

A 65-foot-tall stage curtain that the artist created for the Metropolitan Opera in the 1960s will go up for auction Tuesday at Bonhams.

Rome Tracks Down the Man Behind All That Graffiti. No, It’s Not Banksy.

Sat, 14 Nov 2020 09:22:53 GMT

The tagger known as Geco is not as famous as the British provocateur, but he has made a name for himself in Italy.“He has soiled hundreds of walls and buildings in Rome and other European cities, which had to be cleaned using public funds,” Mayor Virginia Raggi, center, wrote on social media this week.

Klaudio Rodriguez Named Director for the Bronx Museum of the Arts

Fri, 13 Nov 2020 18:00:08 GMT

After two stints as de facto director, Klaudio Rodriguez gets the top job, joining a growing group of Latino leaders of art museums.“I’m very proud to represent the Latino community,” Klaudio Rodriguez said. “It’s the power of presentation, leading by example.”

Inspiration From South of the Border Moves Center Stage in Houston

Fri, 13 Nov 2020 15:38:32 GMT

A new building at the Museum of Fine Arts showcases works by Latin American and Latino artists, many of whom are rarely shown in the United States.The opening of the Museum of Fine Arts’ Nancy and Rich Building reveals works by 250 Latin American and Latino artists. Left, Alessandro Mendini, “Monumentino da Casa,” 1974, wood and tape; right, Fanny Sanín’s “Acrylic No. 5,” 1973, acrylic on canvas.