Arts

Asking the question of how beauty is sold or how beauty trends change would be more effective in The Cult of Beauty than aiming for both and answering neither.

Blue jeans patents, suffragette cookbooks, noise-making 19th-century children’s books, and so much more.

It’s said you can’t rush a Dallas collector through a sale, and it’s the Southern style to wait for a preview to end before closing.

This week, women of color in architecture, shady government comic books, a beloved cherry blossom tree’s last bloom, and much more.

A suite of paintings by Italian Baroque master Guercino at England’s Waddesdon Manor seems to herald the coming of Christ and a modern future.

A new show seeks to restore a pair of modernist weavers to a place of prominence in British design history.

“At times I just sit and have a tea and go into my thoughts for a while; I don’t allow myself to do this at home or anywhere else.”

While his paintings follow the rules of linear perspectives, Niles uses the materiality of the paint itself to pull viewers into the compositions.

Scratching at the Moon hones in on a loose network of artists that have known each other for decades in Los Angeles. 

The artist evokes a strong religious sensibility in his hybrid sculptures tempered by a welcome sense of humor.

Artist Cassils led “Etched in Light,” a participatory visual art and sonic performance in Washington, DC this weekend.

Self-portraits by Van Gogh, Francis Bacon, and more explore not just how these artists saw the world but also what “selfie” culture says about us. 

The 16th-century “Isenheim Altarpiece” confronts us with the reality of suffering, violence, and death in a century where violence is both omnipresent and obscured.

This week, a Birkin bag lawsuit, Central Park’s sidewalks, political neutrality in history classrooms, the Broad’s costly expansion, and much more.

This month: Rollie McKenna, Michael Hambouz, Alina Tenser, Pearl Cowan, and much more.

Elizabeth Glaessner’s dreamlike worlds, Merrick Morton’s candid portraiture, Costa Rican artists on the body and identity, Sargent Claude Johnson, and more.

“My studio space doubles as a place of meditation, allowing me to enter a state of flow where ideas move freely and barriers dissolve.”

Dienst wrests playfulness and movement from the warp and weft of weaving.

For some artists, erasure is a way to restore dignity.

James Fuentes, Asya Geisberg, and Gabrielle Giattino of Bureau have all decamped from their original spaces this month.