Friday saw the death of Thomas Kinkade, the self-proclaimed (and trademarked) “Painter Of Light” who sought to turn art into a mass-marketed commodity that even those who had no interest in or ...
Persona: Photography and the Re-Imagined Self at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, on view through May 10, 2026, explores how photography has been used throughout time as a medium of expression, ...
TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...
Artistic works often enact a dialogue between beauty and ethics, inviting observers to reflect on moral questions through aesthetic experience. Aesthetic value encompasses the qualities that make an ...
In his 2025 BBC Reith Lectures, the Dutch historian Rutger Bregman painted a bleak picture for Europe and its museums. We (the Europeans, that is) are currently reliving the catastrophic demise of ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping told artists on Wednesday that they should not pursue commercial success at the expense of producing work with artistic and moral value. Chinese President Xi Jinping ...
Xi’s Maoist vision for control over Chinese art is at odds with China’s quest to expand its cultural influence abroad. Xi Jinping urged China’s authors, actors, directors, and artists to focus on ...
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