Taylor Swift performance is once again becoming a cultural conversation, but what fascinates me is not simply what she sang at the Grammy Museum. It is how completely she understands that a performance can become a visual memory long after the final note disappears....
A Viking textile discovery in western Jutland gives us something archaeology rarely preserves: fragile traces of clothing from an eighth-century woman's grave, bringing history close enough to feel almost like touch. Preserved by an Unexpected Chemistry The grave was...
A newly announced Princeton University Art Museum exhibition will place Jean-Michel Basquiat’s “Blue Ribbon” paintings at the center of a larger story about copying, circulation and authorship. Opening October 4, Basquiat, the...
Yayoi Kusama, the Japanese artist who transformed repeated dots, mirrored rooms and visions of infinity into one of contemporary art’s most recognizable languages, has died at 97. Her studio announced on August 27 that she died in a Tokyo hospital on August 14. No...
A shoe becomes a hat. A lobster walks across a dress. Quilted ribs and a spine turn an evening gown into an anatomical joke. Elsa Schiaparelli understood that fashion could be elegant while refusing good behavior. Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes Art, at the V&A South...
Queen Elizabeth II understood a principle every public artist eventually learns: visibility is designed. At five feet four inches, moving through crowds measured in thousands, she could not rely on chance. Color, hats, hems, clear umbrellas, weighted skirts, and...
Cape Town’s Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa begins with a building that remembers labor. The grain silo at the V&A Waterfront was constructed in the early twentieth century to store and grade maize before export. Heatherwick Studio did not erase its forty-two...
Pricing is difficult because an artwork carries labor, history and feeling that no formula can fully measure. Still, a professional practice needs numbers that a collector can understand and that an artist can defend without improvising a new story at every sale. A...
Each night, after completing his work as a federal janitor, James Hampton entered a rented garage in northwest Washington and continued building heaven. He wrapped discarded furniture, light bulbs, cardboard, jars and cans in gold and silver foil until ordinary refuse...
Cardi B did not walk onto Kehlani’s Barclays Center stage on August 21 dressed to disappear. Kollin Carter put her in one of the fiercest looks from Matthieu Blazy’s first Métiers d’art collection for Chanel: a cropped jacket and narrow pencil skirt worked in yellow,...