Art and Design

Faced with dwindling attendance and changing demographics, museum directors are shifting their approach, with an eye toward “radical hospitality.”

As the number of African American players dwindles, a new exhibit at the Hall of Fame traces 150 years of Black baseball feats, stars and obstacles.

The downtown museum will purchase its building, incorporate artist residencies and add a cafe that will have a collaborative twist.

Instead of a conventional renovation, one New Yorker took a progressive approach. Now he pays almost nothing for energy, and the air is always fresh.

A 2,200-year-old sculpture of a bearded man carved from basalt, unearthed in the 1930s, is believed to have been stolen in the early 1940s.

Eike Schmidt, the former director of the Uffizi Galleries, is facing an uphill battle in his bid to become mayor, but he’s counting on his cultural clout to win.

Fall in love with the churches, seafood-heavy cuisine and UNESCO-listed streets of Portugal’s second-largest city.

The specimen, found by the paleontologist Jason Cooper, could be auctioned for millions of dollars by Sotheby’s.

The artist Jordan Weber’s queenly sculpture in a Detroit park does double duty as an air quality monitor.

Even if you’re visiting for the Games, you may want to take a cultural break like a local.