Art & Design

Writing an Ancient Egyptian Afterlife, in 21 Feet of Scroll

Writing an Ancient Egyptian Afterlife, in 21 Feet of Sc...

NYT > Art & Design, Feb 19, 2026 - 17:26

How would a New York Times obituary writer measure up to the scribes of the Book...

Van Gogh and the Meaning of Yellow

Van Gogh and the Meaning of Yellow

NYT > Art & Design, Feb 19, 2026 - 17:26

The artist gave prominence to the color during a happy period that produced some...

Inside François Champsaur’s Majorca Home

Inside François Champsaur’s Majorca Home

NYT > Art & Design, Feb 18, 2026 - 16:55

A French designer creates a rustic, rudimentary country house that argues for a ...

How a Visionary Collector Eyed Her Trophies

How a Visionary Collector Eyed Her Trophies

NYT > Art & Design, Feb 18, 2026 - 16:55

Eileen Harris Norton “built a whole new mountain and somehow got everyone to com...

5 Standout Shows During Frieze

5 Standout Shows During Frieze

NYT > Art & Design, Feb 18, 2026 - 16:55

Alongside the Frieze Los Angeles fair at the Santa Monica Airport, Feb. 26 to Ma...

The 19-Year Debate over Whether a Painting Was Looted by the Nazis.

The 19-Year Debate over Whether a Painting Was Looted b...

NYT > Art & Design, Feb 17, 2026 - 16:28

The fuzzy provenance of a Franz Marc masterwork once owned by a Jewish banker, b...

Peeking Behind the Scenes of ‘Wallace and Gromit’

Peeking Behind the Scenes of ‘Wallace and Gromit’

NYT > Art & Design, Feb 17, 2026 - 15:56

An exhibition at the Young V&A in London reveals the painstaking and devoted pra...

Shedding Light on a Roma Artist, and the Fate of Her People

Shedding Light on a Roma Artist, and the Fate of Her Pe...

NYT > Art & Design, Feb 16, 2026 - 15:54

Ceija Stojka, who made visible the historical injustices to the Roma people duri...

Henrike Naumann, Artist Set to Represent Germany at Venice Biennale, Dies at 41

Henrike Naumann, Artist Set to Represent Germany at Ven...

NYT > Art & Design, Feb 16, 2026 - 15:54

Her death from cancer was the second sudden loss for this year’s edition. Nauman...

Trump Wants Smithsonian to Create a Different Official Portrait

Trump Wants Smithsonian to Create a Different Official ...

NYT > Art & Design, Feb 13, 2026 - 15:55

The painted portrait from President Trump’s first term was completed more than f...

Improbably Famous, Then Perpetually Forgotten. Now, the Renaissance of Edmonia Lewis

Improbably Famous, Then Perpetually Forgotten. Now, the...

NYT > Art & Design, Feb 12, 2026 - 15:57

A 19th-century sculptor of Black and Indigenous ancestry was acclaimed, then ove...

Grand Theft Artifact? A New Game Asks Players to Steal Stolen Art.

Grand Theft Artifact? A New Game Asks Players to Steal ...

NYT > Art & Design, Feb 12, 2026 - 15:57

Museum heists have a higher calling in Relooted, a video game where players take...

Can Artists Help Shape American Cities Again?

Can Artists Help Shape American Cities Again?

NYT > Art & Design, Feb 11, 2026 - 17:52

Artists have played a vital role in defining the American city only to be forced...

Sock Rugs and Pants Curtains: When Clothes Become Décor

Sock Rugs and Pants Curtains: When Clothes Become Décor

NYT > Art & Design, Feb 11, 2026 - 17:52

Part of a microtrend in art and design, these pieces are meant to be used but no...

5 Destinations for Design Tourism

5 Destinations for Design Tourism

NYT > Art & Design, Feb 10, 2026 - 17:53

Can’t make Modernism Week in Palm Springs? No worries, there’s a fair for everyo...

The Artist Nick Cave Couches His Critique in Dazzle

The Artist Nick Cave Couches His Critique in Dazzle

NYT > Art & Design, Feb 10, 2026 - 17:53

For “Mammoth,” a new show at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, he takes up co...

Art Gallery Shows to See in February

Art Gallery Shows to See in February

NYT > Art & Design, Feb 9, 2026 - 17:27

This week in Newly Reviewed, Andrew Russeth covers Keith Haring’s rollicking mur...

The Fight Between a Watch Heiress and an Art Museum on the French Riviera

The Fight Between a Watch Heiress and an Art Museum on ...

NYT > Art & Design, Feb 8, 2026 - 17:53

An eccentric watch heiress wants to revoke her grandfather’s donation of Jean Co...

The Philadelphia Museum of Art Restores Its Old Name

The Philadelphia Museum of Art Restores Its Old Name

NYT > Art & Design, Feb 8, 2026 - 17:53

After an unpopular name change, and its firing of the director responsible for i...

White House Suggests Smithsonian Add a Trump Display

White House Suggests Smithsonian Add a Trump Display

NYT > Art & Design, Feb 8, 2026 - 17:53

Administration officials met with staff at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait G...

Save the ‘Sistine Chapel of the New Deal’ in the Cohen Federal Building

Save the ‘Sistine Chapel of the New Deal’ in the Cohen ...

NYT > Art & Design, Feb 8, 2026 - 17:53

The rare murals in the Cohen Federal Building celebrate vital American values of...

Suzannah Lessard Dies at 81; Stanford White Descendant Who Wrote a Haunting Family Memoir

Suzannah Lessard Dies at 81; Stanford White Descendant ...

NYT > Art & Design, Feb 8, 2026 - 17:53

Growing up in a family of secrets, on a compound designed by her great-grandfath...

Slumping in the West, the Art Trade Eyes the Gulf

Slumping in the West, the Art Trade Eyes the Gulf

NYT > Art & Design, Feb 2, 2026 - 15:54

The new Art Basel Qatar fair is a chance for dealers to make inroads with wealth...

Rediscovered Warhols That Warhol Never Saw

Rediscovered Warhols That Warhol Never Saw

NYT > Art & Design, Jan 30, 2026 - 15:55

Filmed 60 years ago, the new trove includes footage from Andy Warhol’s Screen Te...

Cartier-Bresson’s Portrait of a Changing Europe, 70 Years On

Cartier-Bresson’s Portrait of a Changing Europe, 70 Yea...

NYT > Art & Design, Jan 30, 2026 - 15:55

The photographer crisscrossed the continent in the 1950s as the idea of a united...

Alive on the Edge of the World, and Suddenly at Its Center

Alive on the Edge of the World, and Suddenly at Its Center

NYT > Art & Design, Jan 29, 2026 - 15:54

Inuuteq Storch, a young photographer from Greenland with a show at MoMA PS1, cap...

Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas From T Magazine

Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas From T Magazine

NYT > Art & Design, Jan 29, 2026 - 15:54

Japanese incense, jewelry that looks like candy and more recommendations from T ...

Art Stars Honor a Dealer and Her Labor of Love

Art Stars Honor a Dealer and Her Labor of Love

NYT > Art & Design, Jan 28, 2026 - 15:54

William Kentridge, Steve McQueen, Julie Mehretu, Tacita Dean and other leading f...

Turning 4 Miles of Silk Into a Stunning Theater Spectacle

Turning 4 Miles of Silk Into a Stunning Theater Spectacle

NYT > Art & Design, Jan 23, 2026 - 15:55

Miet Warlop’s work is visually breathtaking, but there are deep questions to pon...

For His Next Act, Darren Walker Is Heading to Hollywood

For His Next Act, Darren Walker Is Heading to Hollywood

NYT > Art & Design, Jan 23, 2026 - 15:55

Anonymous Content, a production company whose top investor is Laurene Powell Job...

When Jasper Johns Drew the Line

When Jasper Johns Drew the Line

NYT > Art & Design, Jan 22, 2026 - 16:54

A new exhibition revisits a turning point in the career of the 95-year-old artis...

Barbara G. Walker, Knitting Innovator, Is Dead at 95

Barbara G. Walker, Knitting Innovator, Is Dead at 95

NYT > Art & Design, Jan 22, 2026 - 16:54

After teaching herself to knit, she invented and cataloged stitch patterns, publ...

President Trump’s Chosen Artist? A Christian Speed Painter.

President Trump’s Chosen Artist? A Christian Speed Pain...

NYT > Art & Design, Jan 20, 2026 - 17:56

Vanessa Horabuena has painted presidential portraits and Jesus for Mr. Trump, an...

Art Gallery Shows to See in January

Art Gallery Shows to See in January

NYT > Art & Design, Jan 16, 2026 - 16:53

This week in Newly Reviewed, Jillian Steinhauer covers Elda Cerrato’s mystical a...

After an Earthquake, Preserving a Slow Craft in a Fast World

After an Earthquake, Preserving a Slow Craft in a Fast ...

NYT > Art & Design, Jan 16, 2026 - 16:53

In Wajima, Japan, where hundreds of homes and studios were destroyed, master-cla...

Met Museum Employees Vote to Unionize

Met Museum Employees Vote to Unionize

NYT > Art & Design, Jan 16, 2026 - 16:53

The bargaining unit, which includes curatorial, conservation and retail departme...

White Lies, Inner Truth: The Contradictions of Henri Rousseau

White Lies, Inner Truth: The Contradictions of Henri Ro...

NYT > Art & Design, Jan 15, 2026 - 16:53

His naïve style landed him outside the firmament, but his painterly innocence wa...

Trisha Donnelly’s Mysteries

Trisha Donnelly’s Mysteries

NYT > Art & Design, Jan 15, 2026 - 16:53

The artist isn’t known for her drawings, but in a new show these cryptic, someti...

After Sudden Loss, Park Avenue Armory Hires New Artistic Leader

After Sudden Loss, Park Avenue Armory Hires New Artisti...

NYT > Art & Design, Jan 13, 2026 - 16:54

Deborah Warner, known for directing theater and opera, succeeds Pierre Audi, who...

How Readers Voted on 17 Ways to Improve New York City

How Readers Voted on 17 Ways to Improve New York City

NYT > Art & Design, Jan 13, 2026 - 16:54

The top suggestions include spending more of the city’s budget on parks and libr...

How to Organize Your Desk: Tips for Creating an Inspiring Workspace

How to Organize Your Desk: Tips for Creating an Inspiri...

NYT > Art & Design, Jan 13, 2026 - 16:54

Tips for upgrading your work space and feeling both more organized and more crea...

Jimmy Carter, the Man From Plains, Had a Passion for Painting

Jimmy Carter, the Man From Plains, Had a Passion for Pa...

NYT > Art & Design, Jan 13, 2026 - 16:54

Amy Carter, the daughter of former president Jimmy Carter, selected paintings an...

Inside Interior Designer Sean Leffers’s Eclectic Los Angeles Home

Inside Interior Designer Sean Leffers’s Eclectic Los An...

NYT > Art & Design, Jan 10, 2026 - 15:53

The rooms of the interior designer Sean Leffers’s West Hollywood home are filled...

In Sayre Gomez’s Art, L.A.’s Problems Move From Real to Hyper-Real

In Sayre Gomez’s Art, L.A.’s Problems Move From Real to...

NYT > Art & Design, Jan 10, 2026 - 15:53

The city’s towering challenges include an abandoned skyscraper covered in graffi...

On the Trail of an Elusive Midcentury Chair

On the Trail of an Elusive Midcentury Chair

NYT > Art & Design, Jan 9, 2026 - 14:54

We help a reader track down furniture from a photograph taken in the early 1950s.

Everything Happens at Once in Faith Ringgold’s Mini-Retrospective

Everything Happens at Once in Faith Ringgold’s Mini-Ret...

NYT > Art & Design, Jan 8, 2026 - 16:54

A show highlights the artist’s extraordinary range with oil paintings, gouaches,...

The Most Beautiful Home Libraries T Magazine Has Covered

The Most Beautiful Home Libraries T Magazine Has Covered

NYT > Art & Design, Jan 7, 2026 - 20:23

From Connecticut to Cairo, reading spots that will seem like paradise to book- a...

Janet Fish, Painter of Luminous Still Lifes, Dies at 87

Janet Fish, Painter of Luminous Still Lifes, Dies at 87

NYT > Art & Design, Jan 3, 2026 - 17:22

From her student days, she stubbornly refused to follow popular artistic trends....

Gabriele Münter, an Overshadowed Pillar of Modern Art, Gets a Spotlight

Gabriele Münter, an Overshadowed Pillar of Modern Art, ...

NYT > Art & Design, Jan 3, 2026 - 17:22

“Contours of a World” at the Guggenheim Museum includes paintings as well as pho...

Gone in 2025: A Yearlong Procession of Giants

Gone in 2025: A Yearlong Procession of Giants

NYT > Art & Design, Jan 3, 2026 - 17:22

Marquee names all, they found international fame in the arts, politics, the scie...