Ryan Trecartin's show at MoMA PS1 creates distinctly designed environments filled with furniture and other elements meant to complement a particular video. This room features the video “K-CoreaINC.K (section a).”
Ryan Trecartin’s “Any Ever” is a game-changing exhibition of videos and installation art that teeters giddily at the intersection of art, reality television and social networking.
Everything is in a spotlight in this show of 30 sculptures, which rethinks and reshapes the old one-tribe-one-style concept.
The Morgan Library & Museum makes a greater investment in drawing, and a Renoir at the Frick gets a closer look.
June 24, 2011
The Brooklyn Museum's new chairman is John S. Tamagni, an investment banker who has served on the board for more than 30 years.
June 23, 2011
During the renovation of the Carnegie Mansion, scheduled to be completed in 2013, Cooper-Hewitt's exhibitions, events and education programs will be staged at various off-site locations.
June 22, 2011
The museum is trying to cut its budget by $1.1 million.
“Paris Through the Window: Marc Chagall and His Circle,” an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, focuses on the early encounters of Chagall with the art of Paris.
“Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity,” a five-decade retrospective at the Guggenheim, is Mr. Lee’s first museum show in North America.
The artist Ai Weiwei, released after being held without charge for 80 days, thanked reporters for their concern and then did something almost unimaginable — he refused to say anything more.
Sales of a colorful cityscape by Egon Schiele and a Picasso portrait of his lover Dora Maar were yet another sign that taste this season is veering toward the 20th century.
An art project by two Israeli artists has found life in extraterritorial waters off Israel using a floating gallery and conference space as a forum for questions of boundaries and identity.
Early attempts to sell art online met with failure, but lately a company named Artnet has been finding success with online art auctions.
The Conner Prairie Interactive History Park in Indiana tries to tell history not as fact but as experience.
Mr. Armstrong expanded the Whitney Museum’s collection and acquired works that are now cornerstones of its collection.
A biography of Effie Gray, whose marriage to the Victorian critic John Ruskin notoriously ran aground.
The prints of Jolán Gross-Bettelheim are on view at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum in New Brunswick.
“Laurie Lambrecht: In Roy Lichtenstein’s Studio, 1990-1992,” runs through June 27 at the Drawing Room gallery in East Hampton.
With “To the Moon: Snoopy Soars With NASA,” the Stamford Museum and Nature Center gives a glimpse of the early years of Snoopy’s tenure as safety mascot for NASA.
The Morgan Library & Museum makes a greater investment in drawing, and a Renoir at the Frick gets a closer look.
The French luxury-glass maker is back in vogue, as the Lalique Museum prepares to open on July 2 in Alsace, France, and with sales at Christie’s and Sotheby’s.
An excerpt from "Roamie View : History Enhancement (Re'Search Wait'S)" (2009-2010), part of "Ryan Trecartin: Any Ever" at MoMA PS1. (Video courtesy of the artist and Elizabeth Dee, New York.)
Images from the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s new exhibition of works by Marc Chagall.
Photographs of a theme park in Indiana that tries to tell history in a different way: not as fact but as experience.
A slide show of photographs of cultural events from this week.
Images from the new “Mummies of the World” exhibition at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.
Critics for The New York Times report on their art-world spring awakenings in four Manhattan neighborhoods.
June 24, 2011
June 23, 2011
June 21, 2011
Dispatches from the intersection of social media, technology, the Internet and museums.
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The lack of tools to manage urban development, and the outsize power of private developers, have turned preservation into the unwieldy behemoth that it is today.