December 8, 2019

A $120,000 Banana Is Peeled From an Art Exhibition and Eaten

In plain sight of art aficionados and influencers, a prankster removed a $120,000 banana from an Art Basel exhibition in Miami Beach on Saturday, peeled it […]
November 22, 2019

The Modern Life of Origami, an Art as Old as Paper

Surfacing The Modern Life of Origami, an Art as Old as Paper Precision is key, whether folding a humble crane or an interlocking modular structure. So […]
November 11, 2019

Ultra-Black Is the New Black

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — On a laboratory bench at the National Institute of Standards and Technology was a square tray with two black disks inside, each about […]
October 24, 2019

He Sailed the Longest Ocean Voyage in History and Turned It Into Art

Along a Hudson River pier in 2010, a sailor docked his battered schooner as a crowd watched in quiet anticipation. When he wearily stepped onto land, […]
October 21, 2019

Meet the Man Who Draws Love Notes for The Times

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. For nearly a decade, Brian Rea, […]
October 17, 2019

Donte Colley, the Hope We Need on Instagram

Name: Donte Colley Age: 22 Claim to fame: Mr. Colley, a Toronto native, began posting dance videos to Instagram in 2015, when he was in high […]
October 10, 2019

The Many Faces of Gandhi

In October 1939, about a decade before he was assassinated, Mohandas K. Gandhi issued a warning to his admirers. “Some would like to erect my statue […]
October 9, 2019

Retracing the Spanish Path of My Ancestor, the Founder of the Whitney

Standing on the banks of the sparkling Rio Odiel in Spain, I watched the sun set over this wide estuary that stretches out to marshy grasses […]
October 1, 2019

Kara Walker Takes a Monumental Jab at Britannia

LONDON — The Queen Victoria Memorial, centerpiece of the plaza that fronts Buckingham Palace, is possibly the most bombastic of this city’s monuments to British grandeur. […]
December 27, 2017

Make Mine the Burlap Wrap

How excessive staffing, little competition, generous contracts and archaic rules dramatically inflate capital costs for transit in New York. Workers in the East Side Access tunnel, […]