02/03/2020. Encouraged by Courbet, influenced by Manet, and esteemed by Van Gogh, Wilhelm Leibl (1844–1900) was among the most important representatives of realism in Europe. His work as an artist centered on human beings in their everyday realities. And wi...

03/16/2020. When Harry Belafonte turned 93 on March 1, he celebrated with a tribute at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York, which ended with a thunderous audience singalong to a riff on his star-making 1956 hit, “The Banana Boat Song,” complete with...

04/24/2020. When Prince Harry married Meghan Markle, it wasn’t the romance or the pageantry that set automotive hearts aflutter. It was the couple’s Jaguar E-Type Zero, a classic E-type body fitted with a modern electric drive, that caused a swoon. ...

09/16/2020. Sale prices that wildly exceed expectations give a jolt of excitement to art auctions. In the prepandemic days of live audiences, a gasp from the crowd might be heard. Though much of the action has moved online, those moments can still send ripples t...

02/24/2021. Not far from Times Square I walked west from Eighth Avenue on a recent afternoon to view a mural I had noticed on several occasions but never truly paused to appreciate. This artwork, mounted on the front of the Martin Luther King Jr. Labor Center...

03/31/2021. In 1937, sculptor Augusta Savage was commissioned to create a sculpture that would appear at the 1939 New York World’s Fair in Queens, New York. Savage was one of only four women, and the only Black artist, to receive a commission for the fair. ...

06/25/2021. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Giacomo Balla’s birth, the MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts is celebrating him with an exceptional project, namely the first-ever op...

11/10/2021. More than 200 textiles from India form a cornerstone of the Cotsen Textile Traces Study Collection at The George Washington University Museum and the Textile Museum in Washington, D.C. They testify to cross-cultural exchanges, offer a rich resource f...

11/16/2021. During the pandemic, Twyla Tharp did what most choreographers did: She worked on Zoom. A lot. “The whole time, I was wondering, well, when are we actually going to put bodies back into real places at real times?” she said in a recent interv...

11/23/2022. When the New York Philharmonic moved to Lincoln Center in 1962, its new hall had no women’s dressing rooms. That’s because there were no women in the orchestra. But this fall, as the Philharmonic opens its newly renovated home, David Gef...

08/15/2023. For many years, a 19th-century painting of three white children in a Louisiana landscape held a secret. Beneath a layer of overpaint meant to look like the sky: the figure of an enslaved youth. Covered up for reasons that remain unspecified, the i...

10/05/2023. Art collecting is an enchanting hobby that lets people bask in the beauty and importance of art. It's a world full of different aesthetics, methods, and stories to explore. As beginners jump in, they go on a journey that's more than just buying piece...

11/30/2023. The anticipation of new restaurant openings is a joy shared by all food enthusiasts. In a world where dining is not just a necessity but an experience, the allure of culinary adventures captivates the hearts of food lovers. The culinary landscape is ...

03/14/2024. When the 2024 edition of Asia Week New York opens–from March 14th-22nd–it will mark fifteen years of international galleries and auction houses displaying Asian art from the many corners...

03/09/2024. The Biennale of Sydney announces further artists and artworks for its 24th edition titled Ten Thousand Suns, presented free to the public from 9 March to 10 June 2024. A major internati...