Art

This fall the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s facade will feature strange, humanoid sculptures. If they induce a feeling of nausea, that’s what Lee was going for.

By Andrew Russeth

Plus: tableware that channels rural Britain, illustrated pastry boxes and more recommendations from T Magazine.

The painter Walton Ford has amassed dozens of vintage German animal figurines.

By Julia Halperin

Plus: a forest-inspired perfume, a Derrick Adams exhibition and more recommendations from T Magazine.

By Caitie Kelly

For “PST Art,” the Getty is showing works by John Baldessari, Louise Bourgeois, Deana Lawson and others in a medium that promised to be the future.

By Frank Rose

Artists saw six-figure sales and heard promises of stardom. But with the calamitous downturn in the art market, many collectors bolted — and prices plummeted.

By Zachary Small and Julia Halperin

For T Magazine, Kate Guadagnino set out to identify the many people involved in creating a single object or artistic work, including a luxury handbag, a performance piece, a pizza and more.

By Sarah Bahr

Camille Henrot has filled a gap in the canon by investigating the labor of motherhood.

By Sasha Weiss and Justin French

Plus: skin care inspired by Belize, a Los Angeles designer’s denim collection and more recommendations from T Magazine.

By Momo Ikeda

In Hollywood, on Instagram and beyond, the male-on-male gaze still decides what’s hot and what’s not.

By Mark Harris

Plus: glass cabins in Oregon, art about parenthood and more recommendations from T Magazine.

By Caitie Kelly

The Hermès women’s wear artistic director Nadège Vanhée shares her creative touchstones.

By Laura May Todd

Hayao Miyazaki’s classic film is now onstage, brought to life with elements including a nearly 20-foot-long dragon.

By Kate Guadagnino

The act of creation is rarely a solo affair. Here are five outsize teams behind projects ranging from a performance piece to a new pizza.

By Kate Guadagnino

The artist Miles Greenberg’s latest show lasted for nine hours. It took much longer to come together.

By Kate Guadagnino

Despite the Romantic notion of a solitary genius, most art is the result of collaboration.

By Hanya Yanagihara

Plus: Long Island beach houses, Greek housewares and more recommendations from T Magazine.

By Caitie Kelly

Celebrated for her children’s books, the illustrator channeled the intensity of childhood perception into lesser-known but striking lithographs.

By Walker Mimms

The Sentiero dell’Arte e dell’Anima, or Path of Art and Soul, in Pienza, is lined with 28 benches created by well-known artists where visitors can take in the countryside of the Val d’Orcia.

By Ondine Cohane

At 77, the famous performance artist is determined to endure past 100. She recently introduced some products she hopes will help.

By Jessica Testa

Plus: new French hotels, eel bento boxes in Long Island City and more recommendations from T Magazine.

By Devorah Lev-Tov

Plus: a Miami riverfront restaurant, cashmere blankets and more recommendations from T Magazine.

By Zoe Ruffner

By car or train, there’s no better time to get out of the city than now, during the fifth edition of this sprawling festival north of New York City.

By Will Heinrich

Inheritors of a world shaped by big tech and precarious careers, these New York artists are searching for answers in good faith.

By Travis Diehl

Born into slavery, Guillaume Lethière became one of France’s most decorated painters. For the first time, a major exhibition gives us the full view of his scenes of love and war.

By Jason Farago

Plus: a palace-inspired hotel in Jaipur, colorful French hand fans and more recommendations from T Magazine.

By Caitie Kelly

In New York’s art show of the summer, paint and prose meet in “The Swimmer,” a psychoanalysis of John Cheever’s suburban nightmare of 1964.

By Walker Mimms

Plus: a sporty bag collaboration, a Louise Bourgeois show and more recommendations from T Magazine.

By Jinnie Lee

For Pride Month, we asked people ranging in age from 34 to 93 to share an indelible memory. Together, they offer a personal history of queer life as we know it today.

By Nicole Acheampong, Max Berlinger, Jason Chen, Kate Guadagnino, Colleen Hamilton, Mark Harris, Juan A. Ramírez, Coco Romack, Michael Snyder and John Wogan

At SFMOMA, the artist enacts a parable about trauma and healing in Black life — and makes her first foray into robotics. “I went down a little sci-fi rabbit hole the last couple years working on this piece.”

By Hilarie M. Sheets

Plus: art about office life, colorful rope rugs — and more.

By Jenny Comita

Plus: golden handbags, a Brooklyn boutique’s Tokyo pop-up and more recommendations from T Magazine.

By Gisela Williams

The documentary photographer honors those who turn their energies to a social good. And our critic says this artist does the same.

By Holland Cotter

Over the past half-century, the multimedia artist Tony Oursler has amassed thousands of esoteric pieces of spiritual ephemera.

By Julia Halperin

Five trends the artist has spawned, from men baring it all to waterfalls of ooze.

By M.H. Miller

Patrick Carroll began making textiles during lockdown. Last year, several of them appeared at a JW Anderson runway show.

By Kurt Soller

Declining sales and a cyberattack ignite new worries at spring art auctions.

By Zachary Small and Julia Halperin

A new generation of painters and sculptors is finding creative freedom by making rigorously pared-down work.

By Adam Bradley

Plus: a new hotel in Oxford, England, door knobs with personality and more recommendations.

By Caitie Kelly

A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction protecting a work by Mary Miss. A Des Moines museum wanted to destroy it, citing safety concerns.

By Julia Halperin

She devoted her life to showing us how and why.

By A.O. Scott

Plus: a vase designed by Alice Waters, sculptures made from recycled CDs and more recommendations from T Magazine.

By Roxanne Fequiere

A steamer trunk worth of clothing and textiles by the French-Ukrainian artist reveals the sartorial origins of abstraction.

By Walker Mimms

A tour of the international exhibition, which opened last week and runs through November.

By Jason Schmidt

A new photo book reorients dusty notions of a classic American pastime.

By Walker Mimms

Plus: a Pennsylvania wellness retreat, whimsical wallpaper and more recommendations from T Magazine.

By Zio Baritaux

Boots Riley, Earl Sweatshirt, Jennifer Egan, Amaarae and more tell us about their new projects.

Interviews by Kate Guadagnino

Advice on quashing doubt and maximizing procrastination, according to Joan Baez, Kim Gordon, Bill T. Jones and Myha’la.

Interviews by Kate Guadagnino

Six people, from Lorraine O’Grady to Wallace Stevens, who found a new creative calling – or received long-overdue recognition — later in life.

By Jason Chen

Six artists on the first steps of getting into character, or making a painting.

Interviews by Laura May Todd

Marina Abramović, David Henry Hwang and others reveal their juvenalia.

Interviews by Julia Halperin, Kate Guadagnino and Juan A. Ramírez

From Ralph Ellison to Harper Lee, those who made great work in one field — before their creative lives went in a different direction.

By John Wogan and M.H. Miller

Seven artists on the challenges and joys of starting over, sometimes in a totally new field.

Interviews by Michael Snyder, M.H. Miller and Emily Lordi

Longtime collaborators on how their partnerships formed and why they’ve endured.

Interviews by Ella Riley-Adams, Nick Haramis, Nicole Acheampong, Julia Halperin and Coco Romack

Musicians, writers and others revisit the work that started it all for them, and what (if anything) they might have done differently.

Interviews by Lovia Gyarkye and Nicole Acheampong

It takes courage to start. And far more to continue.

By Aatish Taseer

T’s Culture issue looks at the many ways to begin.

By Hanya Yanagihara

We spoke to 150 artists, some planning retrospectives and others making their debut, to ask about the process of starting something.

To toast the Salone del Mobile and the 20th anniversary of T Magazine, the designer Ramdane Touhami transformed the Villa Necchi Campiglio into an ode to the letter T.

By Laura May Todd

From Japan, Ando designed an exhibition for Zeng, the Chinese painter, which generates a sense of surprise and discovery — what LACMA’s director calls “a strange, poetic thing.”

By Andrew Maerkle