New York Hours / The sections
Arts
Exhibitions, museums, artists and ideas shaping the city’s visual culture.
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Whitney Museum names Nolan Jimbo associate curator
Nolan Jimbo joins the Whitney from MCA Chicago, bringing experience with Asian diasporic artists and experimental performance.
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The many names of rain
Miya Ando found two thousand Japanese ways to describe rain. Her new Chelsea exhibition asks what we miss when we call it…
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Can an internet artwork survive the internet?
Some internet art is already difficult to see in the form its creators intended. Browsers changed, software disappeared, and links that once…
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Charles Burchfield painted the weather inside his head
In Charles Burchfield’s watercolors, the weather seems to have a nervous system. Rain presses against buildings; trees look ready to shudder; even…
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The astonishing discipline behind a Japanese chrysanthemum
A single chrysanthemum plant can carry hundreds of flowers. At the New York Botanical Garden, growers have spent most of the year…
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Tiffany’s forgotten designers step out of the shadows
Louis Comfort Tiffany’s name is still everywhere: on lamps, stained-glass windows and a particular idea of Gilded Age luxury. The names of…
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An unnamed FBI agent takes the Guggenheim
Taryn Simon turns one man’s federal career into 42 chapters of stings, espionage and family secrets.
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Was Roy Lichtenstein a genius or a copyist?
At the Whitney, Drowning Girl and a re-created mural reopen the quarrel over who deserves credit for a picture.
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Baldwin Lee photographs a New York that has almost vanished
Long before the photographer Baldwin Lee became known for his portraits of the American South, he carried a large-format camera through a…
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At the Brooklyn Museum, Hopi figures tell a larger story
The brightly painted cottonwood figures at the Brooklyn Museum were never intended simply as objects to admire.
