Showcasing works by such creators as Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger and Andy Warhol, Washington, D.C.'s Hirshhorn Museum dives into the aesthetic legacy of the Me and MTV generation.

The designer pulls together an appealingly elevated bohemian aesthetic that draws on influences from both his native New England and his adopted home in the Pacific Northwest.

Eleven years after his celebrated NYBG show, the glass artist has placed brand-new and well-known works amid the changing seasonal landscape.

As we slide toward the end of 2016 amid a clutch of holiday parties and seemingly endless shopping excursions, there’s a respite on the horizon: vacation. That means we'll finally have time to sit down and read a good book — a luxury rarely afforded by the busy fall season. This part of the year is also when the most sumptuous tomes on decorating, architecture and fine living are published. So, for lovers of good design, it may be time to reinforce the coffee table: The seven monumental selections below are among the best of the bunch, but they are also just the beginning.

Lose the big-city chauvinism and meet some of the 1stdibs galleries that are making it work in less-likely locales.

As its latest offering, the public art group has produced a political haunted house right in line with the boundary-pushing blockbuster installations for which it's known.

Thanks to a bold, modern update by Ron Arad, the Washington, D.C., landmark with a scandalous past has an exciting future.

Proposing styles from chic and understated to mirrored and opulent, David Netto, Betsy Burnham, Robert Couturier, Alexandra Loew and Brian J. McCarthy reveal how they would decorate the executive mansion . . . for both candidates.

For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, August is all about ripeness and the beginning of the true harvest season. And right now, good books are nearly as plentiful as zucchini in our vegetable gardens. The four volumes below all have seductive beauty as their theme, whether it’s the angular lines of a pioneering modernist or the actual flora in a guide to appreciating plant life in the broadest sense.