How Hauser & Wirth Took Over N.Y.C.’s Museums This Spring

How Hauser & Wirth Took Over N.Y.C.’s Museums This Spring

Earlier this month the Whitney Museum of American Art celebrated the opening of an exhibition by the painter Amy Sherald — Michelle Obama’s official portraitist — with a champagne toast over lush arrangements of daffodils and yellow ranunculus. At the Museum of Modern Art, another recent blowout event honored an …

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New Voices Help Museums Tell New (or Forgotten) Stories

New Voices Help Museums Tell New (or Forgotten) Stories

This article is part of our Museums special section about how artists and institutions are adapting to changing times. When Daniel Merritt became chief curator of an art museum at 32, he did not expect his profession to require him — or the public — to put on skis. But …

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