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The artist's dystopian installation at SFMOMA shows her evolution as a public artist. In her carnival sideshow she casts a wary eye on tech's future. In artworks exploring unequal power [...]

A powerful and overdue exhibition at El Museo del Barrio links Amalia Mesa-Bains's genre-defying installations for the first time. Over a long career of art and activism, Amalia Mesa-Bains has [...]

An exhibition at the Grey Art Museum explores the fervid postwar scene in Paris, where Ellsworth Kelly, Joan Mitchell and others learned lessons America couldn't teach them. Most people looking [...]

Portraits go undercover in the new Metropolitan Museum show ''Hidden Faces,'' about the practice of concealing artworks behind sliding panels and reverse-side paintings. The Met's delightful show ''Hidden Faces: Covered [...]

Gala Porras-Kim has confronted the restitution of cultural artifacts and now -- with melting Antarctic ice -- climate change. Inside the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, little pieces of [...]

Smell the beeswax. Nine sculptures shaped by verdant moss, soil and other outdoor elements at Dia Beacon offer a sense of healing and restoration. For many years change came slowly [...]

Viewers gravitate to his astonishingly tender paintings, but at the Legion of Honor, his preparatory drawings offer a view of a gifted master of line. As the largest loan exhibition [...]

A vital American Folk Art Museum show reckons with centuries of erasure by uncovering historical records of the unnamed Black people depicted in artwork. Even as New York's museums deliver [...]

At the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the painter's subjects and friends, à la mode, could have emerged from the TV show's second season. The painter John Singer Sargent has [...]

The artist's New Yorkiest survey yet is filled with revelations, showing how he created his own private mini-city, starting at his rooftop. ''Edward Hopper's New York,'' the Whitney's latest dive [...]

Britain's pre-eminent abstract painter looks anew at her career, from her black-and-white 1960s Op Art to her contemporary explorations with color. ''I'm always interested in the beginnings of other artists' [...]

The R.E.M. singer-songwriter is parting with works from his collection of Southern artists -- but their inspiration lingers on. In the video for R.E.M.'s first single, ''Radio Free Europe,'' the [...]

The artist, whose installations and sculptures run from microscopic to immense, is having a midcareer survey at SculptureCenter, her largest exhibition since 2001. Liz Larner's exuberant midcareer survey at SculptureCenter [...]

An interview with the mystically inclined artist, who shares the interests of Hilma af Klint and Agnes Pelton. RIDGEFIELD, Conn. -- Artists attuned to the supernatural, paranormal and occult have [...]

Lovers of Edmund de Waal's book can get close to that netsuke in a compelling show of objects that endured across a century of violence, discrimination and dispossession. In his [...]

The Brooklyn Museum shows how Catholicism seeped into his art, complicating our view of the Pop master. The art historian John Richardson, speaking to the glittering crowd at Andy Warhol's [...]

For years she worked in the shadow of her artist husbands and more famous peers, painting at night when the children were asleep. Then a trove of her work was [...]

An exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Art shows the limits of ''soft power'' at a time when museums are being transformed by hard activism. An ambitious survey of [...]

With her daring feminist art and freewheeling lifestyle, Boty personified the cultural scene known as Swinging London. This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people [...]

The Abstract Expressionist and Color Field painter Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) had a way of ignoring boundaries. As a child, she drew a line in chalk on the ground from the [...]

Carlos Cruz-Diez, one of the most prominent Latin American artists of the postwar era, whose immersive paintings and installations set color in motion, stirring overpowering bodily sensations in the viewer, [...]

Rumination and risk-taking, in equal measure, mark Jeff Wall's spellbinding new exhibition at Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea. Since the 1970s, the restless ''conceptual photographer'' has made single, large-scale prints using [...]

'DEADEYE DICK: RICHARD BELLAMY AND HIS CIRCLE,' AT PETER FREEMAN GALLERY A wistfully romantic portrait of the postwar dealer Richard Bellamy, a passionate advocate for contemporary art and a notably [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED''Dealers are as important as the artists themselves,'' the gallery owner Leo Castelli once said. ''He cannot exist without us, and we cannot exist without him.'' Gendered language aside, [...]

'THE HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2016: ANICKA YI, LIFE IS CHEAP' AT THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM The ascendant artist Anicka Yi collaborates with biologists, forensic scientists and perfumers to make art that [...]

In 1972 the Hungarian artist Tamas Szentjoby placed a chair outside the Intercontinental Hotel in Budapest, bound his mouth with a leather belt, and took a seat. About 20 minutes [...]

When Anicka Yi won the Guggenheim's Hugo Boss Prize, an award of $100,000 paired with a solo exhibition at the museum that confers it, art lovers familiar with her heady [...]

In a luminous new show at the Frick Collection, the great 19th-century maritime painter J. M. W. Turner explores the waterfront gateways to Europe with the ravenous eye of a [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDIVAN MORLEY Through Feb. 18. Bortolami, 520 West 20th Street, Manhattan; 212-727-2050, bortolamigallery.com. Full of colorful intricacies, Ivan Morley's paintings can seem almost demonic in their devotion to labor-intensive [...]

'JOHN SINGER SARGENT'S MRS. CARL MEYER AND HER CHILDREN' AT THE JEWISH MUSEUM Focused on one striking Sargent portrait (above) amid family ephemera, this exhibition, which closes on Feb. 5, [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDCalling Peter Voulkos a ceramist is a bit like calling Jimi Hendrix a guitarist. The charismatic, rebellious sculptor and teacher was a genuine rock star of his medium, a [...]

MYRON STOUT Through Jan. 21. Craig F. Starr Gallery, 5 East 73rd Street, Manhattan; 212-570-1739, starr-art.com. Myron Stout's black-and-white paintings come with built-in moonlight, which sets aglow their exhibition at [...]

Through Jan. 22. Frick Collection, 1 East 70th Street, Manhattan; 212-288-0700, frick.org. The 17th-century Italian painter Guido Cagnacci isn't well known in this country, although he has become something of [...]

Through Dec. 23. Derek Eller Gallery, 300 Broome Street, Manhattan; 212-206-6411, derekeller.com. As a member of Forcefield, the Providence, R.I., art and music collective that disbanded in 2003, Ara Peterson [...]

CHRISTOPH RUCKHÄBERLE Through Dec. 22. ZieherSmith, 516 West 20th Street, Manhattan; 212-229-1088, ziehersmith.com. Once again, Christoph Ruckhäberle has painting surrounded, approaching it as reusable history, wisecracking craft, visual delight and [...]

Rita Ackermann 'Kline Rape' Hauser & Wirth548 West 22nd StreetChelseaThrough Jan. 14 Rita Ackermann paints with skill, attitude and a highly effective command of pink, that girlie color. Her latest [...]

White Columns 320 West 13th Street West Village Through Dec. 17 As an art student at the Royal College of London in the early 1980s, Denzil Forrester spent his days [...]

'Implosion: 20' Maccarone New York 630 Greenwich Street, near Morton Street West Village Through Dec. 21 The video and installation artist Alex Da Corte, who hails from the Philadelphia suburbs, [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDRosemary Mayer 'Conceptual Works & Early Fabric Sculptures, 1969-1973' Southfirst 60 North Sixth Street Williamsburg, Brooklyn Through Dec. 11 Rosemary Mayer (1943-2014) was at the center of several developments [...]

A stirring show of the African-American artist Beverly Buchanan kicks off ''A Year of Yes: Reimagining Feminism at the Brooklyn Museum,'' a rallying cry of events and exhibitions devoted to [...]

Emeka Ogboh 'Das Afrikanische Bierlaboratorium I' Ludlow 38, MINI/Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies 38 Ludlow Street, near Hester Street, Lower East Side Through Nov. 13 What if a Nigerian immigrant in Berlin [...]

Bitforms Gallery 131 Allen Street, near Rivington Street, Lower East SideThrough Dec. 23 Just in time for Election Day, the data-driven artist R. Luke DuBois has mounted an interactive, intellectually [...]

Among the 18th century's lesser-known declarations of independence was that of Jean-Honoré Fragonard, the Rococo artist who was a rising star of the French Academy system when he decided, rather [...]

205 Hudson Gallery Hunter College Art Galleries 205 Hudson Street, TriBeCa Through Nov. 20 In the late 1970s, David Wojnarowicz found himself a capacious studio. The walls were crumbling, the [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDTomoo Gokita 'Out of Sight' Mary Boone Gallery 541 West 24th Street, ChelseaThrough Oct. 29 Tomoo Gokita, a polymath of drawing mediums and styles, turned to painting in 2005, [...]

Kai Matsumiya 153» Stanton Street Lower East Side Through Nov. 5 To be an artist with gallery representation in 2016 is to face unrelenting demand for new work, as dealers [...]

''I have not recovered from the joy of Shortgrove being ours and we enrolled among the 'landed gentry' of England,'' the British society figure and philanthropist Adèle Meyer wrote to [...]

Broadway 1602 211 East 121st Street, Harlem Through Oct. 29 Rosemarie Castoro, who died at 76 in 2015, had a prodigious career that rounded all the bases of art in [...]

Douglas Crimp 'Before Pictures: New York City 1967-1977' Galerie Buchholz17 East 82nd Street Through Oct. 22 ''Pictures'' was the title of a 1977 exhibition at Artists Space in New York, [...]

Galerie Buchholz17 East 82nd Street Through Oct. 22 ''Pictures'' was the title of a 1977 exhibition at Artists Space in New York, organized by the critic and curator Douglas Crimp. [...]