This article is part of our Museums special section about how artists and institutions are adapting to changing times. “Welcome to the laboratory!” That’s how the artist Ann Craven, 58, greeted me when we met in the stairwell of her archive in Harlem. The space looked like a mausoleum: rows …
This article is part of our Museums special section about how artists and institutions are adapting to changing times. It is not advisable to attempt to eat off any of Adriana Varejão’s plates. Nor is it wise to ask the artist, one of Brazil’s most prominent and audacious, to serve …
This article is part of our Museums special section about how artists and institutions are adapting to changing times. On a recent overcast morning at the Computer History Museum, there was a bike near the entry painted in the colors of the Google logo. These bikes allow employees to navigate …
By now, you probably know the first Monday in May is not just any old Monday: It’s the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute benefit, a.k.a. the Oscars of the East Coast or the party of the year. We think of it as the Fashion X Games or the All-Star …
This article is part of our Museums special section about how artists and institutions are adapting to changing times. As an institution devoted to telling the story of the sea, the Mystic Seaport Museum has an inherently close relationship with water. Sitting along the Mystic River in southeastern Connecticut, its …
This article is part of our Museums special section about how artists and institutions are adapting to changing times. Children in 1950s America grew up with a distinct image of the Old West through television heroes like the Lone Ranger, Wild Bill Hickok, Wyatt Earp and Hopalong Cassidy. They all …
When the Palisades fire swept through Los Angeles’ western hills, the Getty Villa and its collection of Greek and Roman antiquities stood directly in its path. But the building and collection survived because of substantial museum preparation. The city occupies a unique position among art locations: an urban metropolis that …
On a brisk morning a few weeks ago on the roof terrace of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the artist Jennie C. Jones was previewing “Ensemble,” her suite of elegant, angular sculptural works for the museum’s annual Roof Garden commission, which opens on Tuesday. Three sculptures glistened in the sunlight, …
Martin Wong got in with the graffiti writers in the early 1980s at Pearl Paint, the long-gone Canal Street art supply store, where he had a job in the canvas department. Wong would slip them markers or cans of spray paint or sell them supplies on deep, unsanctioned discounts, which …
At first it went to a bomb shelter in the basement of a museum, then an art bunker built into the dunes on the North Sea in the Netherlands. Toward the end of the war it was hidden in a secured cave in Maastricht, a Dutch city near the Belgian …