• World

Koyo Kouoh, Prominent Art World Figure, Is Dead at 57

admin11 May 2025

She had recently been named to oversee next year’s Venice Biennale. She died just days before she was scheduled to announce its theme and title.

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• Arts

A Small West African Country Has Big Artistic Dreams

admin11 May 2025

Starting an art biennale in a small country with virtually no galleries and no art schools — not even a formal shop to frame paintings and photographs — could have seemed impossible, the stuff only of dreams. But that’s exactly what a group of five ...

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• Arts

‘My Robot Sophia’: An Unsettling Look Into the Soul of a Machine

admin10 May 2025

This film by Jon Kasbe and Crystal Moselle skirts gimmicks to examine a creator’s drive to build a humanoid device powered by artificial intelligence.

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• World

Tate Modern Is the Museum of the Century (Like It or Not)

admin8 May 2025

When the Museum of Modern Art debuted in a Manhattan townhouse in 1929, it faced incomprehension from audiences still uncomfortable with abstract art. When the Centre Georges Pompidou inaugurated its inside-out home in Paris in 1977, philosophers ...

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• lifestyle

On the Chopping Block: Arts and Humanities

admin8 May 2025

More from our inbox: Trump’s Threat of Tariffs on Films Made AbroadA group of officials at the National Endowment for the Arts are resigning. Credit...Graeme Sloan/Sipa via Associated PressTo the Editor: Re “Trump Seeks to Eliminate the National ...

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• Arts

‘Sinners’ and Beyoncé Battle the Vampires. And the Gatekeepers, Too.

admin8 May 2025

This moment might call for excessive, imaginative Black art that wants to be gobbled up. That’s Ryan Coogler’s new movie. That’s “Cowboy Carter.” Let’s throw in some Kendrick, too.

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• Arts

Melissa Toogood Named New Director of Juilliard’s Dance Division

admin7 May 2025

A member of Merce Cunningham’s final company, Toogood brings to the job years of experience as a dancer and educator.

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• Magazine

The New York Nonprofit Where Generations of Artists Got Their Start

admin6 May 2025

The 212 column revisits New York institutions that have helped define the city, from time-honored restaurants to unsung dives. CURRENTLY PROJECTED ON the walls at Artists Space, a nonprofit arts organization in TriBeCa, are two films by Carolyn ...

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• Arts

In an Exhibition of Native Artists, Clichés Give Way to Charged Memories

admin1 May 2025

“Smoke in Our Hair” features 22 artists who boldly challenge the romanticism that often tinges American fables of the nation’s birth and expansion.

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• Style

America’s Premier Living Dandy Doesn’t Want the Title

admin29 April 2025

Iké Udé will tell you that he is not a dandy, and that he wonders why Americans are so keen to categorize people. “I don’t think I should elect to call myself anything,” he said. If pressed, though, the elegant Mr. Udé, a New York artist born in ...

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