06/15/2024. The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is presenting an iconic series of prints by Andō Hiroshige (1797-1858) from its collection. For the first time in over two decades, it is pulling from storage these remarkable woodblock prints that illustrate sce...

06/14/2024. The international art trade faced a crunch moment in Switzerland this week. Art Basel, the world’s biggest and most prestigious fair for dealers in modern and contemporary works, opened to VIPs on Tuesday against a backdrop of declining auction ...

06/15/2024. In a rehearsal studio built on the grounds of old military barracks outside Vienna’s city center one recent morning, director Barrie Kosky was asking for a touch of vaudeville. He was working on his new production of Mozart’s “Cosė ...

06/15/2024. Some families take their textiles very seriously. On a recent morning, Fabian Berglund, one of the co-founders of the Swedish rug and textile company Nordic Knots, carefully arranged a rack of miniature rugs so that each was angled at a perfect 45...

06/15/2024. The Minneapolis Institute of Art announced Thursday that it had decided not to move forward with a planned Kehinde Wiley exhibition, citing recent allegations of sexual misconduct against the artist, which he has denied. The exhibition, called
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06/15/2024. Mary Jackson was 4 when she learned how to weave. Sitting at her mother’s knee in the late 1940s, she tied her first knots with nimble little fingers, binding coils of sea grasses. In the Gullah Geechee communities of coastal South Carolina, whe...

06/15/2024. In May, following the death of Steve Albini, the engineer and tastemaker who helped define the aesthetics of independent rock in the early 1990s, a consensus about his past work started to emerge: Among the slew of albums that Albini recorded in thos...

06/15/2024. Nicole Yi Messier and Victoria Manganiello would like you to talk to their textile. Just pick up the phone and tell it a story. Nothing elaborate — a simple story will do. The textile in question is a few feet away, 18 fabric panels suspended fr...

06/15/2024. The Royal Institute of British Architects has today revealed 22 winners of the RIBA International Awards for Excellence 2024. The winning projects have been selected from entries to the world’s most prestigious award for architecture, the RIBA I...

06/15/2024. Vivian Maier was a disappearance artist. Street photographers typically keep hidden when shooting, but Maier receded in every aspect of her life. Her now well-known story, which has contributed greatly to her posthumous fame, is that while she suppor...

06/15/2024. James Kane was bleary-eyed as he climbed onto the upper deck of a Megabus, wearing a cowboy hat with stickers and carrying a backpack that contained a small fortune. He’d only gotten three hours of sleep the night before, as the previous day ...

06/15/2024. Sarah Arison, Chair of the Board of MoMA PS1, and Glenn D. Lowry, The David Rockefeller Director of The Museum of Modern Art, recently announced that leading contemporary art curator Connie Butler has been named Director of MoMA PS1. Ms. Butler joins...

06/15/2024. The Smithsonian Science Education Center has announced today the endowment of the center’s director position through a gift from Douglas M. Lapp and Anne B. Keiser. The director position will now be named “The Douglas M. Lapp and Anne B. Ke...

06/15/2024. The Morgan Library & Museum announced three new appointments to its curatorial departments. Sheelagh Bevan is promoted to Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Printed Books and Bindings, Dr. Pınar Durgun joins the Morgan as Jeannette and Jonathan Rosen A...

06/15/2024. For her inaugural exhibition with Lisson Gallery, Otobong Nkanga presents new sculptural objects, tapestries and a sound installation, as well as wall-hung and floor-based works – combining materials as diverse as clay, rope, glass, wood, textil...