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A timely group show in Chelsea considers the theme of the American flag in 90-plus variations on the Stars and Stripes. Betsy Ross, the sewing heroine of our childhoods, is [...]

She gave complexity to simple shapes, drawing inspiration from her rugged Canadian upbringing. In her downtime, she swung on a trapeze. Jackie Winsor, a sculptor who animated the coolly masculine [...]

A gregarious yet humble co-founder of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, she donated more than 1,000 of her husband's works, notably to the Whitney Museum. Dorothy Lichtenstein, a prominent arts patron [...]

A gallery shows works with roots in performance art, and a film that documents their creation. The word ''decorative,'' with its evocation of surfacey dazzle, is often a put-down in [...]

Frank Stella, who died on Saturday at age 87, once joked that he harbored only one regret. We were sitting in his scruffy studio in the East Village, and he [...]

Serra spattered a pot of molten lead against the base of a wall in Jasper Johns's home. Then he let it harden. The result looked nothing like a traditional sculpture. [...]

Serra spattered a pot of molten lead against the base of a wall in Jasper Johns’s home. Then he let it harden. The result looked nothing like a traditional sculpture. [...]

Collectors give the museum 27 box constructions and collages by the homebody artist who rarely left Queens but became a central figure in 20th century art. Joseph Cornell, who died [...]

Two powerhouse female painters, both brand names, are on view in New York galleries. Compare and contrast. At the risk of evoking unpleasant memories of high-school English, can we please [...]

Two powerhouse female painters, both brand names, are on view in New York galleries. Compare and contrast. At the risk of evoking unpleasant memories of high-school English, can we please [...]

Revisiting the land artists at the Nasher Sculpture Center, a critic finds their work was never more relevant than it is today. The land art movement, which flourished in the [...]

Revisiting the land artists at the Nasher Sculpture Center, a critic finds their work was never more relevant than it is today. The land art movement, which flourished in the [...]

''Bauhaus Stairway Mural: The Large Version,'' created by the artist for a Beverly Hills building, was rejected by its new tenant. It's New York's temporary gain. With the 100th birthday [...]

It might seem logical that Vincent van Gogh, the most famous depressive in all of art, adopted the Mediterranean cypress tree as a motif. The tall, tapered, cone-shaped evergreen has [...]

It might seem logical that Vincent van Gogh, the most famous depressive in all of art, adopted the Mediterranean cypress tree as a motif. The tall, tapered, cone-shaped evergreen has [...]

He produced so many sensitive and empathetic images of women, and some of the most civic-minded masterworks of the 20th century. When I was a teenager, Pablo Picasso's ''Guernica,'' that [...]

Part I: Today, I Love Him. When I was a teenager, Pablo Picasso’s https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/2843?installation_image_index=4 that colossal antiwar painting rendered in newspaper tones of black and gray, was on loan to [...]

The Bipartisan Policy Center said the nation could run out of cash this summer or early fall if Congress did not raise the debt limit. WASHINGTON -- The United States [...]

The prodigious artist Joe Brainard reveled in making small-scale works, but as a new show reminds us, exemplified the soaring spirit of collaboration between painters and poets in the '60s. [...]

An art taboo is falling, from the Whitney Museum to the Armory Show to blue-chip galleries. Yet artists acknowledge self-censorship on the topic. In recent years, a fashion for painting [...]

In a letter to staff, the I.R.S. commissioner cited ''an abundance of misinformation and false social media postings'' as the agency faces a flood of unfounded conspiracy theories. The Internal [...]

Even viewers who did not know the artist's name devoured his audacious sculptures of cheeseburgers, cherries and ice cream cones. Of all the major American Pop artists, Claes Oldenburg was [...]

While the Treasury secretary sat for her official currency signing more than a year ago, under arcane rules her signature has not yet appeared on the U.S. dollar. Treasury Secretary [...]

The agency started the tax season with more than eight million unfinished returns from the previous year. Millions of 2021 taxpayer returns filed with the Internal Revenue Service have yet [...]

In the early '70s the artist dispensed with collage, making airy cardboard sculptures that challenged the macho posturing that had overtaken American sculpture. Which one is better for making art: [...]

Last June, a meeting of the Dutchess County Legislature in New York's Hudson Valley quickly turned heated over how to spend some of the county's $57 million in federal pandemic [...]

Stimulus bills approved by Congress beginning in 2020 unleashed the largest flood of federal money into the United States economy ever recorded. Roughly $5 trillion went to households, mom-and-pop shops, [...]

What does Turrell, the master of light, have in common with Ad Reinhardt, the master of dark? Benches, for starters. A compelling new show at the Pace Gallery in Manhattan, [...]

The San Francisco artists blazed trails in the '60s and '70s that converge at Paula Cooper. The close friendship between Jay DeFeo and Bruce Conner, leading figures on the San [...]

On a recent Saturday morning, I arrived at the stone house in Sharon, Conn., and found Jasper Johns outside on the lawn, tending to a massive oak tree. An infestation [...]

The newest painting by Jasper Johns was inspired by a fan letter from an astrophysicist. Here's a first look. At 91, Jasper Johns is turning out impressive and touchingly personal [...]

Rooted in the Bay Area, he disdained commerce (and the New York scene, mostly), produced an eclectic kind of figurative art and imparted his ''Wiz-dumb'' to disciples. William T. Wiley, [...]

''It's going to be smart if people can continue to socially distance and wear masks,'' Jerome Powell said on ''60 Minutes.'' WASHINGTON -- The economy is at an ''inflection point'' [...]

A new exhibition in SoHo explores the Italian artist's connections to the midcentury American art scene. For much of the 19th and early 20th centuries, American artists believed they lived [...]

A new exhibition in SoHo explores the Italian artist's connections to the midcentury American art scene. For much of the 19th and early 20th centuries, American artists believed they lived [...]

The Treasury Secretary met with her fellow regulators to discuss whether markets need new attention after the rise of so-called ''meme stocks.'' Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen met with fellow [...]

There is broad agreement that the capital markets have been distorted but less consensus on what, if anything, the S.E.C. should do about it. WASHINGTON -- During his last regulatory [...]

Why has this relatively simple form of sculpture been so fraught with meaning and symbolism over the centuries? The Kasmin Gallery has some ideas. I don't blame you if you [...]

She wrote a celebrated college textbook, but, extending her reach beyond academia, she preferred exploring the unfolding art of the present. Barbara Rose, the influential art historian and critic who [...]

A photographer said four men dismantled the mysterious shiny object that has captivated the country. On Tuesday, a local outdoorsman with a penchant for stunts claimed credit for the disappearance. [...]

It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, buried in the desert: His dealer says yes. His son says maybe. His artist buddies, like Ed Ruscha, say, no way the [...]

The Dodd-Frank financial law succeeded at making banks safer, but empowered shadowy corners of finance that nearly wrecked the system in March. WASHINGTON -- As the coronavirus began shuttering the [...]

A new view of Gober World, where social distancing and supermarket pie are the norm. These days, as I stand at the kitchen sink, washing my hands and wondering why [...]

A leading philanthropist, she championed, without fanfare, the New York City Ballet and numerous art museums. She also loved her dahlias. Anne Hendricks Bass, the arts patron who helped raise [...]

It is hard to think of another artist who was more beloved than John Baldessari, who died Thursday at 88. Although he was not a household name, he was hugely [...]

The Prado rewrites the male-dominated canon with the celebration of two overlooked female painters of the Renaissance. MADRID -- Old Masters have always outnumbered Old Mistresses, especially at the Prado. [...]

BEACON, N.Y. -- Sam Gilliam, an abstract painter of 85, proves that optical prettiness can have depth. A longtime resident of Washington, he is loosely associated with color-field painting, which [...]

What do we talk about when we talk about sculpture? Not pounds or kilograms, for sure. It hardly deepens our view of Giacometti's spindly figures or Calder's light-as-air mobiles, or [...]

President Trump is gearing up to impose tariffs on an additional $300 billion worth of Chinese products, a round of taxes that would hit consumer products ranging from shoes to [...]