11/08/2019. “To tell the story, completely and instantly,” was how Sam Falk described his mission as a photographer. A staff photographer at The New York Times from 1925 to 1969 — a turbulent and transformative era in American history — Fa...

04/01/2020. The low-slung building on Washington Boulevard here might seem like a nondescript storefront sandwiched between a carpet installation business and a lawn mower repair shop. But in the eight years since it was founded, the Underground Museum has be...

06/03/2020. Even after his death, artist Christo's dream project of wrapping up Paris' Arc de Triomphe in silvery-blue recyclable fabric will go ahead next year in line with his wishes, organisers said on Tuesday. From Paris's oldest bridge to Berlin's Reichs...

08/10/2020. Cypriot singer Alexia Vassiliou still remembers the sound of the sirens wailing eerily over her house when she was just a child to warn of the Turkish invasion. She and her family fled the northeastern town of Famagusta in 1974, and decades later ...

03/13/2021. Back in the 1960s, some of us were taking drugs, scrambling genders and sampling global religions to shake ourselves loose from what we saw as Western-style binary thinking, a view of the world based on strictly held good-bad, right-wrong opposites: ...

03/14/2021. The odds were fully stacked against the Desert X biennial taking place this year. Bigger and better-organized destination exhibitions have punted on their plans since the pandemic struck, and even in the best of years, Desert X, which commissions sit...

05/19/2022. Abby Zbikowski’s voice can cut through the loudest drums. It was a Friday morning in April, and a thunderous beat reverberated through a spacious, window-lined studio in the dance department of Ohio State University. Zbikowski, a choreographe...

10/28/2022. n September, just as New York Fashion Week began and the day after Queen Elizabeth II died, artist Adam Pendleton got a text from a friend. It contained a picture of Anna Wintour, the Vogue editor, at a cocktail party hosted by Mayor Eric Adams to ce...

11/05/2022. Rigoberto Torres was born in Puerto Rico in 1960, but he grew up in the Bronx. John Ahearn was born in 1951 in Binghamton, New York, and settled in the Bronx in the early ’80s by way of the downtown art scene. For over a decade, the two honed th...

11/16/2022. The new season of art in Palm Beach County kicks off with Mira Lehr: Arc of Nature. The show features bold and colorful new works by Mira Lehr that have never been exhibited before, spanning 2,000 s...

08/10/2023. When she was 4 years old she met Martin Luther King Jr., who tugged playfully on her pigtails; at 17 she found herself at the Academy Awards, mingling with a bedazzlement of movie stars. By her early 30s she had earned a law degree from Harvard, an M...

09/08/2023. So, you're feeling down in the dumps, and every self-help book basically tells you the same thing: "Eat some kale, splash your face with cold water, take a run at 4 AM...and don't forget to smile!" Seriously, who wants to smile when they feel like a ...

10/23/2023. 92NY, one of New York City’s premier cultural venues, decided Friday to abruptly pull an event that evening featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen after he signed an open letter critical of Israel, drawing criticism that the...

10/30/2023. What do you do with the money you earn from a story you wrote about not having much for too many years? As a single mother cleaning houses, Stephanie Land dusted and polished a catalog of possible answers to this question and chronicled them in he...

03/21/2024. Andrew Crispo, a once high-flying art gallerist in Manhattan brought low by a long series of tabloid-worthy scandals, including tax evasion, extortion and implication in the grisly 1985 murder of a Norwegian art student, died Feb. 8 in Brooklyn. He w...