Category: Art

Christie’s to Auction 3 of Agnes Gund’s Art Jewels

The New York Times – Business:
A Rothko, a Twombly and a Surrealist box with a Medici princess by Joseph Cornell are estimated to sell for $145 million.
Rama Duwaji Joins New Yorkers at an Art Party

The city’s first lady showed up for a night out with artists, writers and celebrities at the Whitney Museum’s winter fund-raiser.
The NFT Has Changed Artists. Has it Changed Art?

Hardly at all.
Russian Filmmakers and Other Artists Face Boycotts Over Ukraine

A Russian moviemaker with Ukrainian roots and relatives in Kyiv denounced the war. The Glasgow Film Festival dropped his film anyway.
Awol Erizku Is More Than Beyoncé’s Pregnancy Photographer

With an exhibition at Gagosian, Erizku hopes to be taken seriously as an artist, rather than viewed as “a photographer for hire.”
Cities and States Are Easing Covid Rules. Should the Arts Follow?

Cultural institutions face tough decisions: Is it safe to drop mask and vaccine requirements, and would doing so be more likely to lure audiences back or keep them away?
The Exacting, Ephemeral Art of Ice Carving

A look inside a Queens studio where Buddhas, sneakers and swans are carved with reverence and the knowledge that beauty, like ice, is fleeting.
Prominent Architecture Firm Is Accused of Illegally Ousting Employees

A federal labor regulator says the firm, Snohetta, laid off eight employees in retaliation for trying to unionize.
Walter Steding, Otherworldly One-Man Band and Portraitist, Is Dead at 75

A self-taught musician, he wore flashing goggles while playing the violin. But his real skill was as a painter, and his portraits offered an eerie commentary on the times.
The Priest, the Financier and the $10 Millon Townhouse

When a pastor learned his childhood home might undergo a glow-up, he saw his beloved Brooklyn further receding — and took to a different kind of pulpit.
T Magazine’s Most-Read Art and Culture Features From 2025

A look at Japan’s microseasons, a retrospective on Gen X and more: These were readers’ 15 favorite stories.
Deaths in 2025: A Yearlong Procession of Giants

Marquee names all, they found international fame in the arts, politics, the sciences and beyond.