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The opening day of the Venice Architecture Biennale was a paradise for architecture groupies, with boldface names galore.

An exhibition at the Jewish Museum that features a group of eight of Frank Gehry's famous fish lamps offers a short but sweet viewing experience.

The vulnerability of museums and high-end art owners to costly thefts has been a concern in France for years, but two events are forcing the issue into the open.

The Clark museum’s “Picasso Looks at Degas” is neither partnership nor competition; it’s about one artist regarding another, calmly and from a distance.

Restoring Daniel Chester French’s sculpture studio, vintage drafting tools and a million-dollar display window at Heritage Auction Galleries.

An exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York returns to 1860 and the visit of a delegation of more than 70 samurai, the first Japanese to leave their closed nation in more than 200 years.

This Sackler Gallery show of bronzes from the National Museum of Cambodia is about change — and efforts to forestall it.

A few exhibitions around Manhattan this summer afford an opportunity to contemplate what public sculpture should do.

A selected guide to visual arts exhibitions in New York and the region.

Dalston, a formerly hard-to-reach London neighborhood, has benefited from a train line extension and a series of community-based design projects.

Roots X Douglas Coupland, a new collection of clothing, accessories and furniture, was inspired by a common interest: Canada.

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An Egyptian billionaire said he would pay for information leading to the recovery of a van Gogh painting that was stolen from a museum in Giza.

Mr. Kon was a Japanese filmmaker and comic-book artist whose dazzling visual compositions won him a devoted following.

Mr. Rowland’s invention, which was an alternative to the folding chair, made it possible to store many chairs in a small space.

Four artists who document Broadway talk about how they see their work.

The Denver Art Museum is mounting the first exhibition featuring Charles Deas, an artist who was briefly a New York sensation in the mid-1800s.

Antiquities officials in Jordan are about to use a Web-based system to track its antiquities, a system that could also be vital to preserving Iraq’s treasures.

A dispute over negatives bought at a garage sale ends up in court.

One needs so little space to make a really useful laundry closet.