Scott Burton, one of America’s leading sculptors, entrusted his estate to the museum in 1989, when he was sick with AIDS, to ensure his place in art history. It turned out to be a bad idea.

Years ago, Hiroyuki Hosoda, a Lower House legislator from Shimane Prefecture, was answering a question in the Diet when he blurted out, “I want to promote the Izumo dialect.” I imagine he ...

Stockholm’s subway system is truly one of a kind. One hundred stations, each with unique art on its platform, walls, or waiting hall. Since 1957 artists have played a key role when new stations have ...