“I wanted to show an aspiration for better times to come,” the artist says of her commission

The new seven-storey, 61,930 sq. ft building will effectively double the museum’s gallery space

A wave of construction projects is updating and expanding the city’s art and cultural institutions, indicating a trend toward modernisation and growth

As a vast retrospective opens in New York, the US artist discusses a 15th-century female author who has inspired her, the “purpose of life” and why she believes her work is only now being properly understood

The artist has recreated her bedroom and studio in the lobby of Manhattan's New Museum for a durational work grounded in activism

From large-scale surveys of Judy Chicago and Ed Ruscha, to showcases of Barkley L. Hendricks’s portraits, Ruth Asawa’s works on paper, Shary Boyle’s surreal ceramics, Korean experimental art and more

The triennial’s sixth edition, scheduled for 2026, will be co-organised by one in-house curator and another from Brazil’s Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand

Dedicating its entire space to a single artist for the first time, the museum's show traces the Kenya-born artist’s 25-year career

The artists create a layered sensory experience across the show’s four artworks

Shows on view in museums and galleries across New York, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Paris and London, from the Brazilian art biennial at the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo to Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca at the New Museum

“We make portraits of a given group in a given time and place,” the duo says about their videos of communities that connect through a form of performance on the peripheries of Brazilian life

From Walid Raad at Paula Cooper Gallery to Daniel Lie at the New Museum

Each work in the Harlem-born artist’s biggest retrospective to date deserves equal attention

Plus, Betye Saar remakes a mural in Los Angeles

From the New Museum Triennial to 52 Walker, David Zwirner’s new outpost

Plus, the New Museum Triennial and Édouard Manet's portrait of Zacharie Astruc

Five artists will be commissioned to create sculptures for the museum’s public plaza when its expansion is complete

The exhibition will span six decades and explore Ringgold as both an artist and political activist

From Aline Motta’s meditation on colonial erasure at the New Museum to recent paintings by Markus Lüpertz at Michael Werner

A sprawling exhibition at the New Museum, featuring early online works and recent projects exploring DNA, proves how farsighted her work has been

From the Met’s survey of women photographers to Wong Ping’s dark films at the New Museum

From Louise Bourgeois at The Jewish Museum to Sam Durant’s High Line Plinth commission

The show takes its title, Soft Water Hard Stone, after a Brazilian proverb about perseverance and the impact of incessant actions over time

Plus, artists with disabilities in the Covid era and Goya's Disasters of War

Show conceived by Okwui Enwezor will unite works by 37 artists exploring mourning and loss as a response to violent injustice

The only way to change the exploitative culture and entrenched racism of art institutions is collectively, from the bottom up

MoMA, the Whitney, the Morgan, the American Folk Art Museum, the New Museum, the Guggenheim and the Brooklyn Museum announce plans to welcome the public, joining the Met and the New-York Historical Society

Complaint to the National Labor Relations Board accuses institution of retaliating against bargaining unit members

Plus, curator Emily Butler on Rhea Storr's video art. Produced in association with Christie's

From Vanessa Thill's mixed-media sculptures at Deli Gallery to Ella Kruglyanskaya's figurative works at Thomas Dane Gallery