February 14, 2023

When a Visit to the Museum Becomes an Ethical Dilemma

Western museums are major tourist attractions, drawing travelers from around the world. But what responsibility do we bear as spectators for patronizing institutions that display what […]
February 9, 2023

Hip-Hop Fashion Pioneers Reminisce About Clothes That Shaped the Genre

A proud crowd of hip-hop style pioneers gathered at the Museum at F.I.T. on Tuesday night to toast the opening of a show that celebrates the […]
December 28, 2022

Machine Dazzle: How Many Ways Can You Say Fabulous?

It was movie night at the Museum of Arts & Design in Manhattan, and the costume designer Machine Dazzle was ready for his entrance. The selection […]
December 14, 2022

Artist or Artifice: Who Is Adam Himebauch?

Through a digital performance and gallery show, the painter meticulously creates the persona of an older, acclaimed artist. The hoax has kept the art crowd guessing. […]
November 17, 2022

Thierry Mugler: Nothing Is Ever Too Extreme

At the Brooklyn Museum, a tribute to fashion’s showman who built temples out of curves and proved clothing had metamorphic properties. Manfred Thierry Mugler, the boundary-pushing […]
November 5, 2022

20 Years of Roman and Williams Design: Hotels, Restaurants, Guild

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Ace Hotel New York. The Chicago Athletic Association. The NoMad hotel in London. Goop’s store in Los Angeles. The Reykjavik […]
October 9, 2022

A Minecraft Player Set Out to Build the Known Universe, Block by Block

Christopher Slayton, 18, spent two months intricately designing the planets. He even went skydiving to get a better appreciation for Earth. Christopher Slayton spent two months […]
September 6, 2022

The Artist Who Throws Newton a Curve

COSTA MESA, Calif. — As a teenager in Brooklyn, Fred Eversley filled a pie pan with Jell-O and spun it on a turntable in his father’s […]
August 12, 2022

What Would Donald Judd Do?

MARFA, Texas—Donald Judd’s sculptures are ticking. In the high desert 100 gleaming aluminum forms — each the exact same size — are aligned in rows with […]
July 21, 2022

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 his favored subscription publications on his home office […]