I’m The Times’s Arts & Leisure editor. Here are five things I’ve been watching, reading and listening to lately.I’m The Times’s Arts & Leisure editor.…
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Louise Bourgeois Shares Her Deepest Secrets
Writings by the artist, exhibited for the first time in the United States, reveal the psychological trauma that fueled her creativity.Writings by the artist, exhibited…
View More Louise Bourgeois Shares Her Deepest SecretsTalking Across the Centuries to the Medici Family
If anyone understood the power of art to influence the course of history, the Renaissance-boosters did.If anyone understood the power of art to influence the…
View More Talking Across the Centuries to the Medici FamilyThe Guggenheim Is Proving That Museums Aren’t Just to Be Seen
The famed institution — and others — are reaching out to audiences who cannot connect to art in typical ways.The famed institution — and others…
View More The Guggenheim Is Proving That Museums Aren’t Just to Be SeenExamining Katharine Graham’s Groundbreaking Life
“Cover Story,” at the New-York Historical Society, illustrates the Washington Post publisher’s courage and tenacity as the first woman to lead a Fortune 500 company.“Cover…
View More Examining Katharine Graham’s Groundbreaking LifeThe Art of the Sneaker
A new exhibition in London charts the rise of global sneaker culture, from performance shoe to cult collector item. But do they belong in the…
View More The Art of the SneakerFranco Battiato, Pop Singer and Versatile Composer, Dies at 76
Though hugely popular as a singer-songwriter in Italy, he never stopped experimenting. He composed for movies, opera and ballet, directed films and painted.Though hugely popular…
View More Franco Battiato, Pop Singer and Versatile Composer, Dies at 76A New York Museum Staple Gets a New Glimmer
At the redesigned Allison and Roberto Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals, which opens June 12, the evolution of minerals is front and center.At the…
View More A New York Museum Staple Gets a New Glimmer‘King Richard’ Finds Fresh Drama in Watergate
Michael Dobbs’s new book mostly covers the first hundred days after Nixon’s second inauguration, when the president appeared triumphant.Michael Dobbs’s new book mostly covers the…
View More ‘King Richard’ Finds Fresh Drama in WatergateThe Broad Museum Reopens With a Celebration of Basquiat
A presentation of all 13 works in the collection, together for the first time and delayed by the pandemic shutdown, attests to the Broads’ early…
View More The Broad Museum Reopens With a Celebration of Basquiat