New York Times - Art & Design

The guests at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual Costume Institute gala on Monday night honored the late designer Alexander McQueen by arriving in daring dress.

The Museum of Tolerance is symptomatic of how the Holocaust is generalized to tie together all kinds of evils.

Five of Anthony Caro’s large metal sculptures are on view on the Met’s roof, but only one from his playful 1960s period.

The Festival of Ideas for the New City, which begins on Wednesday at the New Museum, includes an art installation rendered upon security gates along the Bowery.

An unusual after-hours art installation on the Lower East Side and a “Festival of Ideas” will enliven the Bowery this week when stores are closed and the shutters are down.

Peter Galassi will be stepping down in July.

A new private showroom for the fine jewelry line opens on Santa Monica's Main Street.

To reach the huge under-30 market in China, advertisers are turning to the country’s young artists, musicians and designers to make companies’ brands cool.

“I would like to show the quantity of it,” explains Hans-Peter Feldmann, the German artist who won the $100,000 Hugo Boss Prize.

Why was SoHo in its early days special in ways that, despite the art world’s current money and hype, seem so hard to come by now?

When Alexandre de Betak designed his dream house in Spain, he left no stone unturned.

Francis Alÿs — part storm chaser, part artist, part political allegorist — has a retrospective opening at the Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 on May 8.

The major spring art auctions begin this week and will feature many instantly recognizable images by artists like Warhol, Koons and Picasso.

Mr. Blackbeard rescued Mutt and Jeff, Little Nemo, Naughty Pete, Polly Sleepyhead and more, in their ephemeral form.

A group of six solo projects by contemporary artists titled “Portraiture at the Aldrich Contemporary Museum” features work with common theme.

Mr. Jackson was a Marine combat artist who turned his back on a promising career as an Abstract Expressionist painter to produce paintings and bronze sculptures of cowboys and Indians.

The Federal Trade Commission’s plan seeks to restrict the marketing of products like sugary cereals and fast-food meals to help stem childhood obesity.

The museum in Los Angeles is among the institutions devoted to the Holocaust that broadens its focus to include other episodes of mass murder and widespread discrimination.

The summer issue of Design & Living is all about visions of home.

For a high-powered money manager, being the wife of the American ambassador to France is gilt-edged.