The concept of sound as exhibited art may stretch some people’s notions of the form, but this show’s depths, while not always immediately apparent, are abundant and striking.
With royal roots, these objects expanded in popularity and range from trompe l’oeil paintings of filled bookcases to idiosyncratic still-life compositions that defy the laws of physics and optics.
Beyond the canvas, Chagall’s bold, colorful work found a natural fit in the performing arts, including opera and ballet.
At the Witte Museum you can see a state flag carried on a moon walk, models of circus wagons, an enormous stuffed feral hog and more, objects that reflect the area’s distinctive experience and perspective.
A product of biology, robotics and data visualization, Jenny Sabin’s interactive installation “Lumen,” part of MoMA’s Young Architects Program, is a nod to the future.
Eloise moves from the Plaza to the New-York Historical Society in an exhibition celebrating Kay Thompson’s iconic character.
John Yeon’s multidisciplinary architecture was locally focused with a special eye to protecting natural assets.
A sound-focused exhibition at the Rubin Museum of Art illuminates the Buddhist tenets of impermanence and change.
An exhibition offers a portrait of Henry James that amplifies our sense of how he saw the world.
An exhibition that traverses the president’s Virginia plantation, ‘The Mere Distinction of Colour,’ considers Madison’s role in slavery and the founding of the nation.
The Museum of Modern Art builds a new type of exhibition to celebrate the titan who designed Fallingwater, the Robie House, Price Tower and much more.
From the Victory Garden to the factory, how the home front supported the front lines in World War II.
A museum that tracks the banjo’s varied, complicated reverberations in American popular culture.
An exhibition takes a balanced look at Frederic W. Putnam, the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition and early anthropology.
A boundary breaker is only the second living fashion designer to enjoy a monographic exhibition at the Met Fifth Avenue.
After the New-York Historical Society’s latest renovation, informed by a mixture of ideological and commercial concerns, there are far fewer objects on display.
The new Museum of the American Revolution is the first major museum dedicated to the nation’s founding conflict, but it attempts to de-sacralize its subject.
The first major retrospective of architect Louis I. Kahn’s work in over two decades reveals how he put weight, spatial complexity and a sublime sense of light back into building.
Technology provides a dive into two ancient cultures where mummification took place.
The Berlin Painter decorated over 300 vessels in the 5th century B.C.
How a French gear maker transformed the European car industry and created some of the most iconic vehicles of the 20th century.
At the Brooklyn Museum, Georgia O’Keeffe’s handmade clothing offers a new window into the painter’s creative life.
What a 1,200-year-old shipwreck can teach us about globalization.
An exhibition focuses on a less-familiar subset of the famed French Impressionist’s output: paintings and drawings of the hat business.
Prayer beads, rosaries and diminutive altars carved with miraculously detailed religious scenes.