Art and Design

The breakout character was initially envisioned as a monster. But when the filmmakers saw it wasn’t working, they found their way to a softer antagonist.

Dr. Alex Arroyo, a director of pediatric medicine in Brooklyn, gets to live out his “Star Wars” dreams, practice jujitsu and make a big mess while cooking for his family.

The center marks the history of the Stonewall Inn and the uprising there in 1969 that inspired a new era of gay activism.

Explore a whiskey renaissance, tour the country’s oldest public library and brave a brisk sea dip in the Irish capital.

For Pride Month, we asked people ranging in age from 34 to 93 to share an indelible memory. Together, they offer a personal history of queer life as we know it today.

The small house in Washington was designed to sit lightly on the land: It touches the ground in only six places, and they didn’t cut down a single tree.

Amid challenges in Hollywood, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences renewed its chief executive’s contract a year early.

American Ballet Theater brings Wayne McGregor’s “Woolf Works,” which evokes elements of three novels and the writer’s biography, to New York.

The heat could not stop revelers from taking part in the pageantry of aquatic weirdness.

Gov. Ron DeSantis gave no explanation for zeroing out the $32 million in grants that were approved by state lawmakers.

A replica of the Athena Giustiniani that greeted students at Wells College for more than 150 years was accidentally decapitated in the scramble to close the institution forever.

The oil painting of a saint, looted from the castle in the closing weeks of World War II by the ducal family that once owned it, is being returned by a Buffalo museum.

An uplifting new library in Manhattan comes with 12 floors of subsidized apartments. It’s a clever way to find community support for housing.

For his latest art project, Javier Téllez makes eight Venezuelan migrants his collaborators on a film about power.

An exhibition in downtown Manhattan showcases more than a dozen grass-roots efforts to rebuild war-stricken cities.

Lita Albuquerque redraws her “Malibu Line,” an ultra-vivid blue earthwork that connects earth, ocean and sky.

The first major exhibition at H’Art, a former satellite of the Hermitage, explores how war and nationalism shaped the painter’s career.

A volunteer search-and-rescue organization reported finding the monolith over the weekend near the Gass Peak trail, which is north of Las Vegas.

The best open storage adds personality to a room. Here’s how it’s done.

Is the Mob Museum on your list? The writer and illustrator sees his new guide to North America’s museums as a way to help families plan their summer vacations.

For a tiny apartment in London, the solution was a shape-shifting bank of custom cabinetry built on a tight budget.

The lockdown phase of Covid was a nightmare for art fairs. Now, art fairs big and small are making plans to win back visitors — and dollars.

As museums and collectors wrestle with questions of ownership history, the organizers of this London fair say they carefully vet their dealers’ wares.

Tadáskía, a Black trans artist who is only 30, is already stunning audiences with boundary-breaking work at MoMA, Art Basel and beyond.

Tech-savvy creators are flocking to New Inc. The focus is less on making art than on making it in a way that provides a living.

The Minneapolis Institute of Art said it would not move forward with a show after the artist was accused of sexual misconduct, which he has denied.

Stroll along the river, explore a contemporary art scene and admire panoramic views in this scenic Central European capital.

She was a supremely gifted chameleon. But even in her striking new exhibition at Fotografiska, Maier remains in the shadows.

It was not a picture-perfect ending for the ambitious private venue, whose building is for sale. The museum is looking for another, with room for pictures and parties.

Joyce J. Scott’s 50-year retrospective at the Baltimore Museum of Art draws inspiration, beauty and humor from her hometown and its people.

The Queens home of the Black inventor who contributed to the invention of the lightbulb gets an overdue makeover.

At the prestigious fair, doing business at what one mega-dealer calls a “more human pace” can just mean “slower” for smaller galleries.

More diamonds isn’t enough. One jeweler is wowing sports teams with reversible faces and detachable compartments.

At the Art for Tomorrow conference in Venice, participants debated topics like art’s role in a just world and the good and dangerous effects of A.I.

Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara of Dublin’s Grafton Architects are forging a path in an industry that continues to be dominated by men.

As tourists flood the lagoon city, Venice has suffered something of an identity crisis. Looking ahead, might art light the way forward?

The new exhibition at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection includes drawings of nude men and a large-scale work done in pencil, chalk, crayon and blood.

Sotheby’s is offering a recently surfaced 1846 daguerreotype of Dolley Madison, who is credited with inventing the role of first lady.

It didn’t help that it was straight out of ‘Twin Peaks’: ‘Wood on wood on wood, in a very terrifying way.’ But now it’s bright and airy.

When the museum first opened, it was criticized for omitting Hollywood’s Jewish pioneers. Now it is under fire for what its new exhibit says about them.

The Basel Social Club is a rebellious alternative to the more buttoned-up art fair that descends on the Swiss city of Basel each year.

The desert entertainment mecca is “artificial, but in a good way,” says the Swiss artist. His 46-foot-tall, gold-leaf sculpture is the city’s latest addition.

The abrupt closure of the University of the Arts affects hundreds of faculty members and more than a thousand students.

You may think you know how to make your bed — but here’s how to make it a lot better.

Pieces add up to an archive of a life lived deeply in Lyle Ashton Harris’s compelling survey at the Queens Museum.

A museum’s unusual tactic in a contretemps with protesters brings visibility to their walkout.

The first survey of Auriea Harvey, an influential Net artist turned game developer, traces the evolution of digital art from the 1990s to today.

Kerry Walk announced last week that the institution would close on June 7, leaving hundreds of students in academic limbo.

A fresh crop of apprentice cartoons — now public property — from his pen at The Junior Times may add to our understanding of Guston and his art.

Faced with dwindling attendance and changing demographics, museum directors are shifting their approach, with an eye toward “radical hospitality.”

Oluremi Onabanjo fills her week with early morning writing sessions, a live show at the Village Vanguard, time with other Black scholars and art all around New York City.

The institution’s financial woes were widely known, but the announcement surprised students and faculty members.

Hugo McCloud has gone from designing fountains and furniture to his fifth show with an established New York gallery.

As the number of African American players dwindles, a new exhibit at the Hall of Fame traces 150 years of Black baseball feats, stars and obstacles.

The downtown museum will purchase its building, incorporate artist residencies and add a cafe that will have a collaborative twist.

Instead of a conventional renovation, one New Yorker took a progressive approach. Now he pays almost nothing for energy, and the air is always fresh.

Its disclosure came after RansomHub claimed responsibility for the cyberattack and threatened to release client data on the dark web.

A 2,200-year-old sculpture of a bearded man carved from basalt, unearthed in the 1930s, is believed to have been stolen in the early 1940s.

Eike Schmidt, the former director of the Uffizi Galleries, is facing an uphill battle in his bid to become mayor, but he’s counting on his cultural clout to win.

Work by the anonymous street artist is hard to find. At a museum devoted to him, it’s even harder.