Exhibition at Children’s Museum Decolonizes Color
What is color? The answer to that question is often that it’s subjective. But such vagueness can somehow still leave…
Category: Arts
Kunsthaus Zurich Reaches Settlement with Jewish Heirs of Manet Work
The foundation that oversees the Emil G. Bührle collection said Wednesday that it had reached a settlement with the heirs…
Hidden Above a Trap Door, 17th-Century Frescoes Come to Light
Imagine mounting a scaffold in the atrium of a historic Roman estate. You spy a small trap door in the…
Isaac Julien Returns to the Cutting Room Floor of History
SAN FRANCISCO — Time folds unto itself and reflects historical and contemporary moments that have shaped society in Isaac Julien’s…
Climate Protesters Pardoned after Gluing Hands to Raphael Painting
Two climate activists recently received pardons after convictions and payments for property damage after gluing their hands to the frame…
Executive Director – Portland Symphony Orchestra
Portland Symphony Orchestra (PSO) invites dynamic and enterprising leaders with a passion for music to apply for the role of…
Wink Martindale, Popular Game Show Host on ‘Tic-Tac-Dough’ and More, Dies at 91
Wink Martindale, a radio personality who became a television star as a dapper and affable host of game shows like…
Aline Manoukian and the Specter of War Photography
In 1988, photojournalist and photo editor Aline Manoukian captured an image of a Palestinian militiaman holding a white kitten in…
Influential Berlin Gallery Peres Projects Placed Under Insolvency
Christian Otto, a Berlin-based attorney, has been appointed as the insolvency administrator for Peres Projects, an influential contemporary art gallery…
“An Urgent Priority” — R. I. P.: NEH (1965-2025) — A Postscript
Here’s a postscript to my obituary for the National Endowment of the Humanities, and for my own Music Unwound national…
William Finn, Tony-Winning Composer for ‘Falsettos,’ Dies at 73
William Finn, a witty, cerebral and psychologically perceptive musical theater writer who won two Tony Awards for “Falsettos” and had…
Six Art Books to Read April 2025
Mary Cassatt, “Family Group Reading” (1898) at the Legion of Honor’s Mary Cassatt at Work, January 2025 (photo Lakshmi Rivera…
Harmony Hammond, Feminist Icon, on Adapting a “Survivor Aesthetic”
Political discourse has always flowed freely in Harmony Hammond’s art. Hammond arrived in New York in 1969, months after the…
Across North America, 29 “Jazz Heroes”
Twenty-five years ago the Jazz Journalists Association began to identify and celebrate activists, advocates, altruists, aiders and abettors of jazz…
Val Kilmer, Film Star Who Played Batman and Jim Morrison, Dies at 65
“Most actors recognize there’s something different in Val than meets the eye,” Mr. Stone said in a 2007 interview for…
10 Shows to See in Los Angeles, April 2025
This month, we recommend shows by several artists who provide singular, visionary, and radical ways of viewing the world —…
The 7 Best Booths at Art Basel Hong Kong 2025
Often, when I try to describe what’s so exciting about the art scenes in Hong Kong and China, I’ll say…
Depardieu is on trial, and so is France. It’s a cultural reckoning in an era of #MeToo
PARIS (AP) — With his hulking frame and volcanic charisma, Gérard Depardieu reigned over French cinema for half a century,…
Girls to the Front: Punk Pioneers Are Coming to Lincoln Center
For the Bronx crew ESG, another group formed by sisters — Renee Scroggins and her younger siblings Valerie, Deborah and…
Nona Faustine, Whose Defiant Self-Portraits Confronted Centuries of Violence, Dies at 48
Artist Nona Faustine, whose self-portraits memorialized under-recognized narratives and fearlessly confronted violent histories, died on Thursday morning, March 20, at…
The Book of HOV: The Artist, the Mogul, the Icon
In this epic collab between two titans of prestige, entertainment behemoth Roc Nation and luxury bookmaker Assouline offer up the…
From pulpits to protest, the surprising history of the phrase ‘pride and prejudice’
Most readers hear “pride and prejudice” and immediately think of Jane Austen’s most famous novel, that salty-sweet confection of romance…