Tag: Museums
For Black Artists, the Great Migration Is an Unfinished Journey
JACKSON, Miss. — Midday, midweek, in mid-90 degrees midsummer, the streets of a downtown historic district of this…
Things to Do in Washington, D.C.
Visitors are back in Washington, for all the reasons they came before.Gaggles of school groups and tour buses…
Covid. A Coma. A Stroke. José Parlá Returns From the Edge.
“Surfaces, whether they're walls or canvases or sculptural objects, work as palimpsests for him, and I think that’s…
The Role of Art in a Time of War
KYIV, Ukraine — You do not have to go far outside of Kyiv to see how the massacre…
Jackie Robinson Museum Focuses on Civils Rights and Baseball
Jackie Robinson’s family home in Stamford, Conn., had a den featuring trophies, artifacts and a big scrapbook commemorating…
When ‘New Art’ Made New York the Culture Capital
When I was a kid in the early 1960s, my Eisenhower-Republican physician-father always had the latest copies of…
In Rome, a New Museum for Recovered Treasures Before They Return Home
ROME — Last month, Italian officials inaugurated a new museum here whose title sets a lofty agenda: the…
What to See, Eat and Do in Toronto
Canada’s biggest city and North America’s fourth-largest metropolis, Toronto received more than 27.5 million visitors annually before the…
Portraits by Barkley L. Hendricks Will Hang With Old Masters at the Frick
The portrait artist Barkley L. Hendricks, who died in 2017, considered the Frick Collection one of his favorite…
Director of the Guggenheim to Step Down
Richard Armstrong, the director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, said he planned to retire from his role…
Robert Colescott Throws Down the Gauntlet
Watch out. A raucous, enthralling exhibition of the great American painter Robert Colescott (1925-2009) has arrived at the…
In Athens Creativity in Art, Food and More Rises
Here’s a surprise: While Athenians were locked down because of the pandemic, a flurry of creative and entrepreneurial…