# collectors and collections (news sources) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover collectors and collections. Page: Feed: --- ## [Yayoi Kusama Was the Avant-Garde Radical Who Became a Pop Icon](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/arts/design/yayoi-kusama-appraisal.html) _2026-08-27 · Blake Gopnik · NYT \> Arts \> Art & Design_ In her mass-produced ubiquity, Kusama became one of her own dots, spreading her image into every corner of our culture. ## [How Paul Williams Built White and Black Los Angeles](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/arts/design/paul-williams-architect.html) _2026-08-26 · Jori Finkel · NYT \> Arts \> Art & Design_ A pioneering architect’s archive, long thought lost, was preserved by his family. Now, three museums are featuring the work of a man who broke California’s color barrier. ## [Ancient Lebanese Treasures Take a Journey From Modern-Day Conflict](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/world/middleeast/lebanon-byblos-israel.html) _2026-08-26 · Alissa J. Rubin · NYT \> Arts \> Art & Design_ Artifacts from Byblos have been on display in Paris in a show that highlights how modern-day conflict in the Middle East imperils the cultural heritage of the region. ## [Judge Says Sale of Titanic Artifacts Cannot Go Forward for Now](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/arts/design/titanic-artifacts-sale-halted-judge.html) _2026-08-26 · Marc Davis · NYT \> Arts \> Art & Design_ The salvage company that has been awarded the rights to recover, but not sell, items that sunk with the ship, has proposed selling 100 of them. ## [Trump Officials Propose Sale of ‘Woke’ Painting by Kehinde Wiley](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/arts/design/kehinde-wiley-painting-embassy-dominican-republic.html) _2026-08-24 · Zachary Small · NYT \> Arts \> Art & Design_ The State Department recently removed the painting of Dominicans from a U.S. embassy, noting it was by the artist who made Barack Obama’s presidential portrait. ## [Behind the Mysterious Symbols Spray-Painted on Our Streets](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/arts/design/street-symbols-michael-kimmelman.html) _2026-08-24 · Michael Kimmelman and Tom Wilson · NYT \> Arts \> Art & Design_ All over New York’s sidewalks and sewers, colored markings hide in plain sight, telling construction crews where to dig and creating accidental art. ## [How ‘Rocky Horror’ Dreamed Up a Mad Scientist’s World](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/theater/rocky-horror-show-in-one-image.html) _2026-08-22 · Laura Collins-Hughes · NYT \> Arts \> Art & Design_ The designers kept in mind the slapdash seediness that has been embedded in the musical’s DNA ever since it started in 1973 at the Royal Court Theater in London. ## [Smithsonian Plan for Latino Museum Would Bypass Congress](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/arts/design/smithsonian-museum-american-latino-building.html) _2026-08-21 · Robin Pogrebin · NYT \> Arts \> Art & Design_ The board will vote whether to house the museum in its Arts and Industries Building rather than build on a site owned by the National Park Service. ## [Can She Translate a Big New York Sports Moment Into a Poster?](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/arts/design/us-open-poster-eugenia-mello.html) _2026-08-21 · Leila Sheridan · NYT \> Arts \> Art & Design_ Eugenia Mello created art for the 2026 U.S. Open inspired by a passion for movement and color, and her own immigrant journey from Peru to Brooklyn. ## [Art Gallery Shows to See in August](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/arts/art-gallery-shows-to-see-in-august.html) _2026-08-20 · Jillian Steinhauer, Andrew Russeth and Carolina A. Miranda · NYT \> Arts \> Art & Design_ This week in Newly Reviewed, Jillian Steinhauer covers a group show mixing paint and textiles, a show of self-taught artists, and David Lamelas’s remarkable range. ## [Find what they just said (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/E68wzNqJ5Z0R) _2026-08-20 · **Sponsored**_ Surface recent public signals so you can send policy-aware, relevant outreach ## [Show of Houses by Dutch Modernist Architect Shines a Light on Gem in U.S.](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/arts/design/rietveld-houses-exhibition-center-for-architecture.html) _2026-08-20 · Wendy Moonan · NYT \> Arts \> Art & Design_ A riveting exhibition of photographs of homes by Gerrit Rietveld unearths a mastery, beyond furniture design, of “a new way of living.” ## [From India, a God of Your Choice, to Display at Home](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/arts/design/from-india-a-god-of-your-choice-to-display-at-home.html) _2026-08-20 · Will Heinrich · NYT \> Arts \> Art & Design_ A vivid show of 19th and 20th century Hindu devotional prints showcases the country’s genius for aesthetic abundance. ## [The Odyssey of Priam’s Treasure, an Ancient Trove of Artifacts](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/arts/design/priams-treasure-odyssey.html) _2026-08-19 · Graham Bowley · NYT \> Arts \> Art & Design_ A German archaeologist’s dig of important historic pieces in the 1870s set off an ownership battle between Turkey, Germany and Russia, with no signs of abating. ## [The High Cost of Being Present at the Venice Biennale](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/19/arts/design/venice-biennale-theater-florentina-holzinger-dries-verhoeven.html) _2026-08-19 · Laura Cappelle · NYT \> Arts \> Art & Design_ Some of the most talked-about pavilions at this year’s art event feature theatrical performances. But working with live bodies brings extra challenges. ## [In Mexico City, a Futuristic House With a Secret Chess Room](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/t-magazine/fernando-romero-mexico-city-home.html) _2026-08-18 · Kurt Soller · NYT \> Arts \> Art & Design_ The architect Fernando Romero has pushed what was once a generic midcentury home as far as it can go. ## [Making Hanji, an Ancient Korean Handmade Paper, in Ohio](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/arts/design/korean-papermaker-hanji.html) _2026-08-17 · Elie Levine and Sasha Arutyunova · NYT \> Arts \> Art & Design_ Aimee Lee learned to make hanji with Korean masters. Now she practices their traditional technique in the United States. ## [As the Old Files Open, One Family Confronts Another’s Dark Nazi Past](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/16/arts/zilversmit-netherlands-podcast-book-holocaust-nazi.html) _2026-08-17 · Nina Siegal and Melissa Schriek · NYT \> Arts \> Art & Design_ A woman who secured the criminal file of her grandmother, a collaborator, offered to share it with a Jewish family that had been betrayed. Then she balked and a new dispute ensued. ## [RM, a Superstar With BTS, Gets His Feet Wet As an Art Curator](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/arts/design/bts-rm-art-museum.html) _2026-08-15 · Andrew Russeth · NYT \> Arts \> Art & Design_ RM, of BTS, brings 145 works by Korean artists to SFMOMA this fall. “I know Picasso, I know van Gogh. I don’t know anyone from my country,” he told himself as he began to buy. “You have to find your root.” ## [Mary Heilmann, Painter of Vividly Wobbly Abstractions, Dies at 86](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/15/arts/design/mary-heilmann-dead.html) _2026-08-15 · Deborah Solomon · NYT \> Arts \> Art & Design_ An emblem of the obstacles faced by women artists of her generation, she was 67 when her first museum retrospective opened to rave reviews in 2007. ## [Retro Grid Dungeon Crawler (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/hdvG52JekQje) _2026-08-15 · **Sponsored**_ Retro grid movement with first-person combat, loot and skill-tree progression. ## [An Architect Who Built Where No One Else Dared](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/t-magazine/jeffrey-dungan-birmingham-house.html) _2026-08-15 · Jameson Montgomery and Adrian Gaut · NYT \> Arts \> Art & Design_ On a hillside outside Birmingham, Ala., Jeffrey Dungan saw a chance to create his dream house, which effectively cascades down the incline.