In 1984, when the Museum of Modern Art in New York opened its exhibition “ ‘Primitivism’ in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern,” the reception was generally ... Read more
BOOK Letters to a Young Scientist. By Edward O. Wilson. Liveright. 256 pages. $21.95. In this warm guide, Edward O. Wilson, the evolutionary biologist who has studied social behavior ... Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — It's not the kind of performance that will win her another Academy Award, but actress Tilda Swinton certainly has them buzzing at New York's Museum of Modern Art. But not too loudly — she's ... Read more
The news out of Los Angeles may have some people pinching themselves in disbelief. After five years of seeming to sit on its hands (and wallets) while the Museum of Contemporary Art was being run into the ... Read more
WARSAW — The 30-foot-tall rainbow sculpture in downtown Savior Square here is looking somewhat the worse for wear these days, half covered in patches of artificial flowers and half bare from being set on ... Read more
DUBAI — In the center of a large room, the skeletal shape of a bird — an installation of steel and light-emitting diodes — hovers near the ceiling. About four times human size, its strong, ... Read more
BOSTON (AP) — Now that authorities believe they know who stole $500 million worth of art from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in the largest art heist in U.S. history, what are the chances they'll ... Read more
PARIS (AP) — France has given an American an art collection that Nazis took from his grandfather during World War II. Tom Selldorff was a 6-year-old Austrian living in Vienna when he last saw the paintings in ... Read more
The F.B.I. said Monday that it believes it knows the identity of the thieves who stole 13 works of art 23 years ago from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, one of the most infamous art heists in ... Read more
BOOK The Bonobo and the Atheist. Frans de Waal. Norton. $27.95. 304 pp. In this account of the evolution of human morality, the primatologist Frans de Waal argues that ethics and ... Read more