Amanda Gorman, who at 22 is the youngest inaugural poet in US history, reads her poem during the ceremony at the Capitol in Washington, Jan 20, 2021

Amanda Gorman captures the moment

With verses that echoed the theme of the inauguration, “America United,” Amanda Gorman spoke of the possibility of unity, redemption and reconciliation

Amanda Gorman reads a poem during the inauguration of President Joe Biden at the Capitol in Washington on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)

Gorman captures 'bruised, but whole' US

The youngest poet in US history to mark the transition of presidential power offers a hopeful vision for a deeply divided country

What is it about a Frans Hals painting housed at a tiny Dutch museum that has made it so popular with thieves, who have stolen it three times since 1988? (Xiao Hua Yang/The New York Times)

The mystery of the
painting thieves love

What is it about a Frans Hals painting housed at a tiny Dutch museum that has made it so popular with thieves?

People tour the inside 'The Vessel,' a large public art sculpture made up of 155 flights of stairs, during the grand opening of the The Hudson Yards development, a residential, commercial, and retail space on Manhattan's West side in New York City, New York, US, Mar 15, 2019. REUTERS/FILE

Vessel at Hudson Yards
closes after 3rd suicide

It is unclear when the 150-foot sculpture, the huge Manhattan development’s centrepiece, will reopen

The feminist and author Pauline Harmange, in Lille, France, Jan 9, 2021. Harmange is adjusting to the success and backlash of her debut book,

A French feminist touches
a nerve with ‘I Hate Men’

Pauline Harmange’s debut book suggests a more frank approach to sexism and gender violence

Artist Tacita Dean at her studio in Berlin, Monday, Jan 4, 2021. Dean, a leading British artist now based in Berlin, has always been a market contrarian: The slow-burn films that made her famous are only sold as reels of actual, archaic film. So, over the last nine months, her idea of “productive” time spent in lockdown included forging the signature of Christian Dotremont, a long-dead Belgian surrealist, on 100 facsimiles of a postcard he once sent. (Mustafah Abdulaziz/The New York Times)

Who said art is
only for the 1pc?

Marian Goodman Gallery and MoMA are reviving interest in multiples — art produced in affordable editions for the ’60s middle-class

In an undated image provided by SFAI, “The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of a City” by Diego Rivera, on display at the San Francisco Art Institute. The University of California has stressed that no final decision has been made to sell the mural — but behind the scenes, administrators and the institute's leaders are strongly pushing to do so, as it would pay off debts and allow them to make ends meet for an annual operating budget that typically runs around $19 million. SFAI via The New York Times

US art school says future hinges on a Rivera mural

Officials at San Francisco Art Institute say selling a $50 million Rivera could save the school. Former students are outraged

A man pauses at the memorial of Breonna Taylor before a march, after a grand jury decided not to bring homicide charges against police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Taylor in her apartment, in Louisville, Kentucky, US, Sept 25, 2020. REUTERS

Breonna Taylor statue
smashed in California

The statue is vandalised less than two weeks after it was installed, drawing widespread condemnation in the community and prompting a police investigation

The acclaimed violinist Jennifer Koh in the Hudson Heights section of Manhattan, on Dec 11, 2020. Soon after the pandemic struck, a year’s worth of bookings vanished for Koh, who found herself streaming concerts from her apartment. Elias Williams/The New York Times

A ‘great cultural
depression’ looms

With theatres and concert halls shuttered, unemployment in the arts has cut deeper than in restaurants and other hard-hit industries

PPE art brings a smile to Moscow's COVID patients
Robert E Lee statue
removed from US capitol
The artists who
redesigned a
war-shattered Europe
Obama on reading,
writing and radical
empathy
Parton and the
women who love her
Pine Mountain monolith artists reveal themselves
California monolith
replaced with a cross
Monolith pops up
outside candy store
Artists ask MoMA
to remove Philip
Johnson’s name
France’s literary juries award prizes in a year of scandal
Did McCracken make
that monolith in Utah?
It's too hard to isolate
Oxford’s word of the year
A weird monolith is
found in Utah desert
Jan Morris took readers around the world
Scottish author Douglas
Stuart wins Booker Prize
'Canvas Story' launches in London
Publishers step up diversity efforts
Artist finds voice after honing painting skill as soldier
An undocumented writer defies the odds
Elijah Pierce finds a spotlight at the right time
An artist telling her deep truths
East village, home
of punks and poets