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The artist you meet in a small, revelatory show is quite different from the one known for mail art and his later gritty samplings of popular culture. In 1949, a [...]

The artist you meet in a small, revelatory show is quite different from the one known for mail art and his later gritty samplings of popular culture. In 1949, a [...]

Rudolf Stingel Through April 27. Gagosian, 980 Madison Avenue, Manhattan; 212-744-2313, gagosisan.com. Devise your own theories about what went wrong with Rudolf Stingel's disappointing show at uptown Gagosian. Mine speculate [...]

His tilted walls of rusting steel, monumental blocks and other immense and inscrutable forms created environments that had to be walked through, or around, to be fully experienced. Richard Serra, [...]

Byline: Roberta Smith An engrossing exhibition at the Neue Galerie in Manhattan offers a small number of these fabled lush paintings but plenty of other treasures. It was exciting to [...]

An engrossing exhibition at the Neue Galerie in Manhattan offers a small number of these fabled lush paintings but plenty of other treasures. It was exciting to look forward to [...]

The British artist lived long and worked in numerous mediums, but is barely known in the United States. The history of art by women still has its secrets. Some recent [...]

Byline: Roberta Smith A major collection of early Greek figures and vessels takes up long-term residence in New York - a transformative event. New York City has added another jewel [...]

A major collection of early Greek figures and vessels takes up long-term residence in New York -- a transformative event. New York City has added another jewel to its glittering [...]

Newly Reviewed John Knight Through March 2. Greene Naftali, 508 West 26th Street, Ground Floor, Manhattan; 212-463-7770, https://greenenaftaligallery.com/. The conceptual artist John Knight delights in a revelatory style of institutional [...]

Byline: Roberta Smith Reaching out to artists known and emerging, a little-known gallery illuminates a patch of grass-roots D.I.Y. in a time of gleaming big-box galleries. A few years ago, [...]

Reaching out to artists known and emerging, a little-known gallery illuminates a patch of grass-roots D.I.Y. in a time of gleaming big-box galleries. A few years ago, the phrase ''Dimes [...]

In addition to its impressionist matchup ''Manet/Degas,'' the Met unveiled Lauren Halsey's spectacular new rooftop installation. Our critics weigh in on this year's most thrilling shows. Invigorating, Surprising, Sometimes Even [...]

In addition to its impressionist matchup “Manet/Degas,” the Met unveiled Lauren Halsey’s spectacular new rooftop installation. Our critics weigh in on this year’s most thrilling shows. Invigorating, Surprising, Sometimes Even [...]

Newly Reviewed Erik N. Mack Through Dec. 22. Paula Cooper, 521 West 21st Street, Manhattan, 212-255-1105, http://paulacoopergallery.com/. In a manner of speaking, it is time for Eric N. Mack’s close-up: [...]

Byline: Roberta Smith The leaders of a short-lived but consequential art movement that flourished early in the 20th century take center stage at the Met Museum. If you ever took [...]

The leaders of a short-lived but consequential art movement that flourished early in the 20th century take center stage at the Met Museum. If you ever took an art history [...]

Newly Reviewed ‘Edward Hopper as Puritan’ Through Feb. 17. Craig Starr Gallery, 5 East 73rd Street, Manhattan, 212-570-1739, http://www.craigstarr.com/ “http://www.craigstarr.com/exhibitions/edward-hopper-as-puritan#tab:slideshow” is a compact exhibition devoted to a world-famous American painter [...]

It began with a sudden, breathtaking emergence over the trees to the south -- a thousand points of blue light that expanded and dispersed into the sky. They organized into [...]

It began with a sudden, breathtaking emergence over the trees to the south — a thousand points of blue light that expanded and dispersed into the sky. They organized into [...]

The artist brings an energy to painting that reverberates through his exuberant yet sobering survey at the Whitney Museum. As long as there are artists like Henry Taylor around, painting [...]

The artist brings an energy to painting that reverberates through his exuberant yet sobering survey at the Whitney Museum. As long as there are artists like Henry Taylor around, painting [...]

The artist, displaying his own work along with his idiosyncratic holdings, invites rumination on the state of the nation at Demisch Danant gallery. The artist Robert Gober must be a [...]

Roberta Smith, co-chief art critic, on fall exhibitions at the Met, MoMA, Whitney, Folk Art Museum and more that she's looking forward to. Among the fall's surveys of contemporary art, [...]

With ''Scratching the Back,'' the artist creates the most colorful and unsettling Facade Commission yet, chipping away at the gray stones of the museum. There are some offers an artist [...]

With “Scratching the Back,” the artist creates the most colorful and unsettling Facade Commission yet, chipping away at the gray stones of the museum. There are some offers an artist [...]

The ceramist Doyle Lane created a universe of colors and shapes with his 'weed pots,' 100 of which form his first solo show in New York, at David Kordansky. The [...]

The ceramist Doyle Lane created a universe of colors and shapes with his ‘weed pots,’ 100 of which form his first solo show in New York, at David Kordansky. The [...]

A big retrospective bypassed New York recently but two gallery exhibitions, at 52 Walker and Michael Rosenfeld, more than make up for it. Few painters have used color as vigorously [...]

A big retrospective bypassed New York recently but two gallery exhibitions, at 52 Walker and Michael Rosenfeld, more than make up for it. Few painters have used color as vigorously [...]

Want to see new art in the city? Check out Joan Brown, Giorgio de Chirico and the making of Art-Rite magazine in Chelsea, and Rina Banerjee on the Lower East [...]

In her first museum show in the United States, this Finnish artist uses her own XL body to bring a new emotional depth to the genre of setup photography. The [...]

Want to see new art in the city? Check out Takako Yamaguchi, Luc Tuymans, Eunnam Hong in Manhattan, and Theodora Skipitares in Brooklyn. Newly Reviewed Takako Yamaguchi Through June 17. [...]

In her first museum show in the United States, this Finnish artist uses her own XL body to bring a new emotional depth to the genre of setup photography. The [...]

Byline: Roberta Smith A small, exquisite exhibition at the Guggenheim shows how the City of Light transformed the 19-year-old Spanish artist. One painting says it all. Some celebrations are fleeting, [...]

A small, exquisite exhibition at the Guggenheim shows how the City of Light transformed the 19-year-old Spanish artist. One painting says it all. Some celebrations are fleeting, others bring permanent, [...]

Byline: Roberta Smith With 120 works on paper and eight paintings spanning more than four decades, this show proposes a new theory about the artist. In the spring of 1946 [...]

The first U.S. retrospective of a 20th-century self-taught Brazilian artist adds another name to the ''outsider'' canon and renders it moot. Arthur Bispo do Rosario, a former Marine Corps signalman, [...]

With 120 works on paper and eight paintings spanning more than four decades, this show proposes a new theory about the artist. In the spring of 1946 the Museum of [...]

Byline: Roberta Smith After panning an artist's work 23 years ago, our veteran critic had a change of mind following three visits to 'Death and the Maid' at the Met. [...]

After panning an artist's work 23 years ago, our veteran critic had a change of mind following three visits to ''Death and the Maid'' at the Met. Artists change, but [...]

Faith Ringgold, Mickalene Thomas, George Condo and others talk to our critics about the visual world he helped create. Georges Braque, in 1907, looked at his Spanish friend's new painting, [...]

Faith Ringgold, Mickalene Thomas, George Condo and others talk to our critics about the visual world he helped create. Georges Braque, in 1907, looked at his Spanish friend’s new painting, [...]

The German artist says the 14 paintings here are among his last. Even so, their freshness and spontaneity feels like a new beginning. Over the past several years the prolific, [...]

The German artist says the 14 paintings here are among his last. Even so, their freshness and spontaneity feels like a new beginning. Over the past several years the prolific, [...]

Pardon the binary thinking, but the multimedia Kenya-born artist Wangechi Mutu has turned the New Museum into a magical matriarchy. Or something close. It has become an enveloping, shadowy place [...]

Pardon the binary thinking, but the multimedia Kenya-born artist Wangechi Mutu has turned the New Museum into a magical matriarchy. Or something close. It has become an enveloping, shadowy place [...]

His new paintings, with their perfect planes of color, expand on the theme of ''Black Joy,'' proving that delight and humor are their own form of resistance. In ''I Can [...]

Byline: Roberta Smith The gift of 220 artworks from the artist's foundation to the august Metropolitan Museum of Art seems at odds with the institution it hopes to become. How [...]

A former lawyer, he showcased artists who tackled issues like women's rights, the environment, totalitarianism and war. Ronald Feldman, who for nearly 50 years oversaw one of New York's most [...]