Artists discuss how they turned the queen into an icon.
Queen Elizabeth II of Britain was one of the world’s most photographed and painted people. Three artists explain how they made portraits of the monarch...
A ‘Virtual Rapper’ Was Fired. Questions About Art and Tech Remain.
The story of FN Meka — a fictitious character billed as the first musical artist partly powered by artificial intelligence to be signed by a...
Museums in the U.S. and Europe Are in Blockbuster Mode
From Los Angeles to Antwerp, Jason Farago, our critic at large, picks a fall season laden with offerings on Cubism, modern Korean art and paintings...
Canadian city pulls bison sculpture in row over representation of colonialism
Edmonton decided Ken Lum’s paired figures of a bison and fur trader could ‘cause harm and induce painful memories’A Canadian city has pulled a public...
Portrait of tyrant Thomas Picton moved to side room in Welsh museum
Exhibition includes two specially commissioned works reframing story of former Trinidad governorFor more than a century, the portrait of Thomas Picton hung in a prominent...
At the Serpentine, a Show of Nature’s Healing Power
Ginsberg is also focused on plants, though in a very different way. Her contribution is “Pollinator Pathmaker,” an 820-foot-long flower bed that was planted not...
Ancient sculptures found in storage box finally returned to Mexico
Consulate accepts a dozen small artworks amid worldwide movement to repatriate Indigenous itemsSmall, ancient sculptures that have been gathering dust in an Albuquerque storage box...
Anticolonial hero statue to occupy Trafalgar Square fourth plinth from September
Antelope by Samson Kambalu depicts John Chilembwe wearing hat in defiance of colonial rule in Nyasaland, now MalawiA sculpture of a preacher who was killed...
Where Dalí Once Painted the Sea, Wind Turbines Are Set to Rise
PORT LLIGAT, Spain — Moises Tibau clambered aboard his small wooden boat at dawn, pushing off from a craggy outcropping in front of the house...
Peeling Paint in Hong Kong Reveals Work of Newly Relevant ‘King’
When he was alive, the graffiti of Tsang Tsou-choi, or the “King of Kowloon,” was considered peculiar and personal. In a radically changed city, his...