NEW: Nintendo announces Switch 2 will release June 5 with a Mario Kart launch title allowing you to drive anywhere. Updates to come. nytimes.com/2025/04/02/bus…

We analyzed the relationship between museums and mega-galleries. Of 350 exhibitions since 2019, nearly 25 percent went to artists represented by just 11 of the biggest galleries in the world. nytimes.com/2025/04/27/art…

A darkness that once simmered below the surface of his paintings was now starting to seep through the canvas. On Salman Toor's new paintings — his largest exhibition to date. nytimes.com/2025/04/28/art…

NEW: Frieze art fair has finally announced a buyer. nytimes.com/2025/05/01/art…

My interview with Expedition 33's team: - This is lead writer Jennifer Svedburg-Yen's debut as a writer. She is a former private equity investor. - THERE IS NO DLC planned yet. The fan IG message was not meant to be anything but a reply. - ONLY THREE Sandfall devs are

NEW: Trump nominates Mary Anne Carter as head of NEA. She had previously served as the agency's chair during the first admin. nytimes.com/2025/05/08/art…

A painting by Lucio Fontana that had sold for nearly $14 million at Christie’s in 2017 (or $17.4 million with inflation) returned to the auction house on Monday evening. It sold for just $7.5 million, including fees. nytimes.com/2025/05/12/art…

The auction houses performed lower than their low estimates this season, but still cleared the $1B sales mark. Fear is growing that the industry might be shrinking. nytimes.com/2025/05/19/art…

Four days after the president said he was dismissing the head of the National Portrait Gallery, the Smithsonian has yet to accept or challenge his authority. nytimes.com/2025/06/03/art…

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An effort to extend a 2016 law helping Holocaust victims and their heirs retrieve artworks stolen by the Nazis is pitting Jewish organizations that want to strengthen the law against major museums that have been quietly lobbying to keep it as it is. nytimes.com/2025/07/31/art…

I am proud to be the lead House Democrat on the HEAR Act. As I told the New York Times, the Nazi regime stole about 600,000 works of art from Jews, and today more than 100,000 remain unrecovered. The HEAR Act, that I was proud to sponsor when it first passed in 2016, was a

Great The New York Times story by Zachary Small about dinosaurs, love and grief. nytimes.com/2025/08/06/art…

$5,000-Per-Plate Dinner Tests Museum Ban on Political Fund-Raisers #museums by Zachary Small Zachary Small The New York Times nytimes.com/2025/08/15/art…

The Carnegie Museums had guidelines against political events; one happened anyway, igniting a firestorm in Pittsburgh. Our article breaks down what happened, and the question of who knew what when. nytimes.com/2025/08/15/art…

Trump continues to scrutinize the Smithsonian, now with a list — nytimes.com/2025/08/21/art…

For the last five months, I've been reporting on curators and artists who feel their exhibitions have been censored in some way, because museums fear backlash from Trump. Here are those stories. nytimes.com/2025/08/23/art…

BREAKING: Trump signs order "MAKING FEDERAL ARCHITECTURE BEAUTIFUL AGAIN" nytimes.com/2025/08/28/art…