Category: Art

Adam Pendleton Holds Our Attention

The artist discusses his work routine, selling paintings as a teenager and the first piece that made him cry.
MoMA’s Garden Party Honors Joan Jonas, LaToya Ruby Frazier and Refik Anadol

The annual event raised more than $5.5 million and drew influential artists, collectors and benefactors to the museum.
The 25 Photos That Defined the Modern Age

A group of experts met to discuss the images that have best captured — and changed — the world since 1955.
Notre-Dame Rises Again … in Lego

With rose windows, bell towers and a central spire, this model of the famed Paris cathedral is all the hype among adult fans of Lego, known as AFOLs.
‘You Can Be a Little Different in Queens’: Why This Home Is Not Like the Others

Instead of a conventional renovation, one New Yorker took a progressive approach. Now he pays almost nothing for energy, and the air is always fresh.
What to Do in Paris and France to Escape the Olympics

Even if you’re visiting for the Games, you may want to take a cultural break like a local.
Wu-Tang Clan Album ‘Once Upon a Time in Shaolin’ Will Be Played in Tasmania

The sole known copy of the album “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” was not to be heard by the public until 2103. Some fans will be able to hear a selection of the 31 tracks at a museum in Hobart, Tasmania.
Want to Succeed as an Artist? We’ve Got a Coach For You.

With a rising number of artists vying for a limited number of galleries and grants, arts professionals are pivoting to careers as coaches. But can they help people profit from their talents?
10 Artists on Living and Creating Through Grief

Jesmyn Ward, Bridget Everett, Sigrid Nunez and seven other writers, actors, musicians and filmmakers talk to us about grief — how they’ve experienced it and how it has changed them.
These 2 Watch Collaborators Have Never Actually Met

Living on opposite sides of the globe didn’t stop them from developing their B/1 timepiece, a nod to Brutalist architecture.
When Watchmakers Team Up With Pritzker Prize Winners

Architects say they find a certain affinity between designing major structures and smaller items to wear on the wrist.
The Night That Sotheby’s Was Crypto-Punked

The auction that was supposed to be an art world coming-out party for NFTs instead exposed the instability at the heart of the crypto world.