BREAKING: Trump signs order "MAKING FEDERAL ARCHITECTURE BEAUTIFUL AGAIN" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/a...

For the last five months, I've been reporting on curators and artists who feel their exhibitions have been censored in some way, because museums fear backlash from Trump. Here are those stories. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/a...

Trump continues to scrutinize the Smithsonian, now with a list — www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/a...

ICYMI — We profiled five leading players in Trump's effort to change American cultural institutions. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/a...

The Carnegie Museums had guidelines against political events; one happened anyway, igniting a firestorm in Pittsburgh. Our article breaks down what happened, and the question of who knew what when. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/a...

When his wife died, the paleontologist Barry James poured his grief into the reconstruction of a $25M triceratops skeleton that they had started together. Surrounded by the bones, an unconventional way for him to honor April started to form ... www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/a...

An effort to extend a 2016 law helping Holocaust victims and their heirs retrieve artworks stolen by the Nazis is pitting Jewish organizations that want to strengthen the law against major museums that have been quietly lobbying to keep it as it is. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/a...

Today’s Editor’s Pick is 'Politics Looms Over the World’s Biggest Contemporary Art Fair' by @zacharyhsmall.bsky.social for @nytimes.com. With all eyes on Art Basel, art world leaders provide insight as global conflict and economic uncertainty cast a shadow over the fair.

Four days after the president said he was dismissing the head of the National Portrait Gallery, the Smithsonian has yet to accept or challenge his authority. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/a...

The auction houses performed lower than their low estimates this season, but still cleared the $1B sales mark. Fear is growing that the industry might be shrinking. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/a...

A painting by Lucio Fontana that had sold for nearly $14 million at Christie’s in 2017 (or $17.4 million with inflation) returned to the auction house on Monday evening. It sold for just $7.5 million, including fees. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/a...

NEW: Trump nominates Mary Anne Carter as head of NEA. She had previously served as the agency's chair during the first admin. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/a...

NEW: Frieze art fair has finally announced a buyer. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/a...

A darkness that once simmered below the surface of his paintings was now starting to seep through the canvas. On Salman Toor's new paintings — his largest exhibition to date. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/a...

We analyzed the relationship between museums and mega-galleries. Of 350 exhibitions since 2019, nearly 25 percent went to artists represented by just 11 of the biggest galleries in the world. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/a...

NEW: Nintendo announces Switch 2 will release June 5 with a Mario Kart launch title allowing you to drive anywhere. Updates to come. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/b...

Trump's executive order faulted a Smithsonian show for promoting "the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct,” a position widely held by scientists. We looked at the history behind that position and the actual show. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/a...

SCOOP: MoMA has announced internally that its next director is Christophe Cherix, currently chief curator of drawings and prints. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/a...

NOW: The Guggenheim cut 20 employees today. The union has filed a grievance because they were not given advanced notice. Senior leaders won't be taking any pay cuts. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/a...

Love this story — “When the library was about to open, we had the opportunity to have a tour in the library for the tenants. When he saw that, I explained to him, ‘We are the first ones seeing the library because we live on top of it.’ He was like, ‘Oh, mommy. Oh my God, oh my God!’”

The first big test of the art market this year has been announced: Christie's will offer the $250M Riggio collection, from the family that brought you Barnes & Noble. Read on for the art — and the dog named Cookie. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/a...

Ms. Schiff helped advance the field of advising from the vanity project of bored socialites into a respected profession, more akin to an asset management firm. Then her clients realized she stole millions. Our @nytimes.com story on her difficult path to repentance. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/a...

BREAKING: Daniel Sikkema is charged by US officials in murder-for-hire plot that led to husband's death. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/a...

Cuts at the Brooklyn Museum are larger than first rumored — staff layoffs of +10%, reduced exhibitions and events — to help offset a $10M deficit. Our @nytimes story www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/a...

For the 25th anniversary of The Sims, I spoke to the game's creator Will Wright about gods and ants. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/a...

Yuko Mohri thought she knew what the Japanese government wanted from its artists: something conservative and quiet. It certainly wasn’t a renegade punk rocker with a penchant for moldy fruits. And yet…! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/a...

BREAKING: National Gallery ends its diversity programming, reassigning employees from its inclusion and belonging department, following a Trump executive order calling such initiatives "illegal and immoral." Other museums are weighing their options. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/a...