In his new documentary, The First Monday in May, filmmaker Andrew Rossi—you know him from his 2011 film Page One: Inside the New York Times—takes on another one of New York City’s most complicated and fascinating institutions: The Metropolitan Museum. Specifically its Costume Institute and the star-studded annual benefit gala held each ... More

Hedda Sterne might be best known for an iconic 1951 photograph from Life magazine, in which she’s the only female among a group of more famous Abstract Expressionists, billed as the “Irascibles.” The picture shows Sterne, a prolific painter, standing on a chair above Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark ... More

The one thing you’re always aware of in this building is that you’re on an island,” says Adam Weinberg, director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, sitting on a wire-mesh Bertoia chair in his eighth-floor office. “You always have a sense of place.” The museum reopened to ... More

The University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive recently unveiled its new home, directly across from the UC campus, with the inaugural exhibition Architecture of Life (on display through May 29). Exploring the ways that architecture reshapes our world, the show presents a selection of ... More

Today the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) announced that James Goldstein, the billionaire NBA buff and fashion aficionado, has promised his iconic John Lautner-designed house, its contents and the surrounding estate to the museum. The $40 million property, located near Beverly Hills, is probably best known ... More

The Costume Institute’s next exhibition, Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology, will explore the impact of technology on the fashion world, specifically haute couture and avant-garde ready-to-wear. The exhibition will feature over 100 designs ranging from a 1880s Charles Frederick Worth gown to a 2015 Chanel suit ... More

Want to jump the queue at the hottest exhibits before the tourists pile in? Dying to get a drawing lesson from a top artist like Natalie Frank inside her studio? Daydreaming about lunching with your favorite sculptor? Then you might want to call The Cultivist. Founded by ex-Sothebys staffers ... More

Frank Stella is something of a downtown Manhattan institution. The celebrated painter and sculptor has lived in the same Greenwich Village house for nearly 50 years, and for almost three decades, until 2005, he worked out of an East 13th Street building—a former horse auction market—that has since ... More

Bellissima: Italy and High Fashion 1945 – 1968, a gorgeous exhibition that explores the creativity that gave rise to Italian high fashion as we know it, will arrive at Fort Lauderdale’s NSU Art Museum this winter. A project of MAXXI: National Museum of the XXI Century Arts in Rome and ... More

Last week, LA-based painter Kelly Reemtsen opened her new exhibit, "Smashing," at the De Buck Gallery in Chelsea. The subjects of her paintings are ominously flirtatious—in bright retro dresses and pumps, wielding household tools that remind us just how many uses a hose, a pair of shears, or ... More