Art and Design

Highlights

    1. critic’s notebook

      Daring and Dazzling, a New LACMA Floats Above Los Angeles

      After $724 million and a decade of battles, the pugnacious David Geffen Galleries reassert the city’s role as a petri dish for experimental design.

      By Michael Kimmelman and

      CreditJake Michaels for The New York Times
  1. A Huge Statue of a Black Woman Opens a New Door to London’s V&A

    Thomas J Price’s bronze figures present anonymous Black people at heroic scale. After an installation in Times Square sparked a furor, his latest work welcomes visitors to a new museum outpost.

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    Price’s sculpture “A Place Beyond,” stands outside the new V&A East in London, which opens Saturday.
    CreditAyesha Kazim for The New York Times
  2. A Sculptor’s Life, in Constant Motion

    A career-spanning Alexander Calder exhibition in Paris turns the viewer into a collaborator and lifts the soul.

    By Emily LaBarge and

    CreditDmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times; Artworks: 2025 Calder Foundation, New York/ADAGP, Paris, 2026
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  3. How to Win a $1.2 Million Picasso Without Really Trying

    A Parisian software salesman entered a charity raffle and came away with a piece of history: “I have some paintings, but not like a Picasso.”

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    “Tête de femme” (1941) is a portrait of Dora Maar, who was Pablo Picasso’s muse, lover and model.
    CreditPicasso Estate, Paris, 2025
  4. What’s That Musky Aroma at the New Museum?

    The artist Klara Hosnedlova inaugurates OMA’s soaring new atrium stairway at the New Museum.

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    CreditSabrina Santiago for The New York Times
  5. Art Gallery Shows to See in April

    This week in Newly Reviewed, Andrew Russeth covers Édouard Vuillard’s thorny encounters, Domenico Gnoli’s zesty paintings and Nina Beier’s ice cream cones.

    By Andrew RussethJillian Steinhauer and

    Édouard Vuillard, “The Flowered Dress” (1891), oil on canvas.
    CreditThe Museu de Arte de São Paulo, via Skarstedt, New York

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