11/05/2019. When renowned Nigerian curator Okwui Enwezor died in Munich in March at age 55, he left behind substantial preparatory materials for a future exhibition. That final show will soon be realized, as the 15th edition of the Sharjah Biennial, perhaps t...

11/05/2019. Germany opened Monday a week of festivities marking three decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, but a hint of a return of the Cold War and the rise of nationalism is dampening the mood. Leaders of former Cold War powers will be absent from an...

11/06/2019. President William Henry Harrison died in 1841 after just 31 days in the White House. But the sword he carried at the Battle of Tippecanoe is caught up in one last war. The sword and its scabbard were seized by police in Connecticut last month just...

11/06/2019. Marya Columbia was awakened by her husband just before 9 a.m. on that indelible September morning 18 years ago. He had been startled by a clangorous noise that he later likened to the sound of an aluminum bat striking a lamppost. He sprinted to the w...

11/06/2019. A large selection of fresh estate fine art and antiques from several homes around New England – to include a 1939 Cadillac Series 75 convertible sedan and a 1948 Ford Woodie V8 wagon, both New Hampshire barn finds – will come up for bid on ...

11/07/2019. Ever since 1986, when a small gathering of artists and friends first gathered at San Francisco’s Baker Beach to celebrate the summer solstice by igniting an 8-foot male effigy, the art of the Burning Man festival was not meant to be seen by the ...

11/07/2019. Amid the polka dots, mirrors and pumpkins of her artwork, Yayoi Kusama has lately been incorporating poetic messages, like the one featured in the exhibition that opens Saturday at David Zwirner, which includes the line, “With the challenge of c...

11/07/2019. The New York artist Dread Scott was standing in a tiny traffic island in this working-class suburb west of New Orleans on a recent afternoon near the EZ Stop convenience store. He had come to point out a single sentence on a historical marker, one un...

11/08/2019. “To tell the story, completely and instantly,” was how Sam Falk described his mission as a photographer. A staff photographer at The New York Times from 1925 to 1969 — a turbulent and transformative era in American history — Fa...

11/08/2019. Marie Laforêt, the French actress and singer known in Europe as “the girl with the golden eyes” (“la fille aux yeux d’or”), died on Saturday in Genolier, Switzerland, a small town in the Nyon district north of Geneva. She was...

11/08/2019. TEFAF New York Fall 2019 ran from November 1st to 5th, with a Preview Day on October 31st, continuing the Fair’s tradition of presenting a diverse variety of art and artifacts from around the wo...

11/08/2019. Archaeologists said Wednesday they have made the largest-ever discovery of mammoth remains: a trove of 800 bones from at least 14 of the extinct giants found in central Mexico. Moreover, they believe they have made the first-ever find of a mammoth...

11/08/2019. The life and art of Peter Hujar (1934–1987) were rooted in downtown New York. Private by nature, combative in manner, well-read, and widely connected, Hujar inhabited a world of avant-garde dance, music, art, and drag performance. His mature car...

11/08/2019. We’ll be lucky this art season if we get another exhibition as tautly beautiful as “Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates” at the Shed. And we’ll be right to ponder why this artist, who was born in Budapest 88 years ago and has...

11/07/2019. If you’re a sucker for museums full of ancient artifacts, you need to go to The Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Egypt’s ancient history is fascinating with deep-seeded cultural traditions, ingenious architectural wonders, and interesting theological ideas....