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Women remain grossly underrepresented at the highest echelons of American science, and continue to face absurd claims of ''innate'' inferiority, whether from former Harvard presidents or senior engineers at Google. [...]

The self-taught artist Henry Darger (1892-1973) made his extraordinary watercolor battle scenes -- replete with Civil-War-style soldiery, rainbow-striped Christian flags and hermaphroditic girls rendered in a delicately unhinged style that's [...]

Five days after the massacre of nine black parishioners in Charleston, S.C., in 2015, the artist Rudy Shepherd painted 9-inch-by-12-inch portraits of two of the victims, Myra Thompson and Tywanza [...]

Totah 183 Stanton StreetLower East Side Through Sept. 18 Architecture and painting have been linked since antiquity, when artists painted frescoes that suggested three-dimensional structures and interiors. Lauretta Vinciarelli (1943-2011) [...]

It's always invigorating to see the graphic art of the great German Expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, who was born in Bavaria in 1880 and died by his own hand in [...]

John Singer Sargent may be known for squandering his considerable gifts on paintings of socialites that he dashed off with nearly effortless panache, but ''Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends,'' [...]

LONDON -- For much of his career Eric Ravilious was known principally for his wood engravings, book illustrations, murals and designs for Wedgwood ceramics. But, as the artist told his [...]

Alice Neel is best known for her portraits which, with their controlled painterly drama and psychological nuance, are complete and polished formal statements in a classical genre. Her drawings and [...]

JOHN JAMES AUDUBON painted many birds, but for sheer stage presence, his great gray owl is hard to beat. Perched on a rotten branch, it turns halfway, as though disturbed, [...]

Gladstone Gallery 515 West 24th Street, Chelsea Through Feb. 22 For decades, the painter Robert Bechtle has been making oddly cropped, resolutely banal streetscapes of his hometown, San Francisco. His [...]

In 1961, Jacqueline Kennedy created the office of the White House curator, transforming the nation's most famous residence for the first time into a collecting art institution, which it remains [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDEllie Irons keeps her eyes to the ground in her Bushwick, Brooklyn, neighborhood. She is looking for plant life, invasive species that pop up beside tree roots and between [...]

Shortly after the turn of the 20th century John Singer Sargent went through a midlife crisis. An American expatriate in London, he was sick of painting flattering portraits of rich [...]

Critics say that the painter John Singer Sargent owned a world-class talent but made bad decisions about what to do with it. Even so, for sheer technical bravura, his work [...]

WHEN the photographer and filmmaker Yelena Yemchuk started painting 10 years ago, she was inspired in part by a bizarre newspaper headline. ''I was at a friend's house in Italy, [...]

AS the art director of Proenza Schouler, a position he has held since the label's inception, Alejandro Cardenas was responsible for creating the exotic fish prints (right) that were so [...]

If you didn't know that William T. Wiley was a real person, you might think he'd been invented by Thomas Pynchon. Over the last half-century Mr. Wiley, 72, has been […]

WHEN two of Babar's children, Alexander and Flora, ask whether art in a museum has to be old or pretty, the famous elephant king answers, 'There are no rules to […]

Watercolor was all the rage in early-19th-century England, and one of its liveliest practitioners is the subject of an expansive, engaging show, 'Sun, Wind and Rain: The Art of David […]

PAINTING THE TOWN'S Vanished Vistas The New-York Historical Society has 8,500 watercolors, drawings and original works on paper in its collection, so choosing 190 examples for the current show 'Drawn […]

'House Proud: Nineteenth-Century Watercolor Interiors From the Thaw Collection,' at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, dovetails seamlessly with our voyeuristic, overdecorated times. Its jewel-like renderings of rooms and their furnishings […]

Watercolor painting is an amateur's medium, beloved of the 'Sunday painter.' And yet it is also among the hardest of artistic techniques to master, for unlike oil or even acrylic […]

Any show of work by the American modernist Arthur Dove (1880-1946) is an occasion, and this is a rare one. While his easel painting is by no means unfamiliar, his […]

Postmasters Gallery 459 West 19th Street, Chelsea Through Nov. 22 After the United States invaded Iraq, Steve Mumford set out to revive the archaic tradition of the war artists whose […]

Of the many events celebrating the 150th anniversary of Central Park, the most poignant may be a show of watercolors at the Didier Aaron Gallery in Manhattan through Oct. 24. […]

Richard York Gallery 21 East 65th Street Manhattan Through May 10 Born in London in 1812, John William Hill came to America as a boy and spent most of his […]

Even if it weren't for the wonderful late works by J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851), the collection of more than 400 English watercolor landscapes of the Romantic period assembled by […]

Feature 530 West 25th Street, Chelsea Through Nov. 10 A member of the original appropriation-art generation, which emerged in the early 1980's, Dike Blair has developed his art quietly and […]

THE watercolor documents and drawings of the Schwenkfelders, a little-known Pennsylvania-German sect that came to America in the 1730's, vividly express the worldly and spiritual joys that were often denied […]

Somewhere, Norton Simon, the pioneering industrialist who died in 1993, must be proud. In the 1940's, 50's and 60's, Mr. Simon turned a small investment in a failing orange-juice bottling […]

The 19th-century American landscapist William Trost Richards (1833-1905) is not one whose name springs readily to mind. But he's a long way from oblivion. Born a generation after the fathers […]

Lawrence Markey Gallery 42 East 76th Street Manhattan Through Oct. 7 Working only when the spirit seized him, the Indian painter Acharya Vyakul (1930-2000) used all manner of materials -- […]

IF you brave the cold of Central Park in winter you will be in good company -- of birds. The tufted titmouse, crimson-colored Northern cardinal, white-breasted nuthatch and familiar blue […]