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Byline: Holland Cotter The political art in the group exhibition 'Paint the Protest' refers to events from the past that could be happening - and are - today. Most 'political' [...]

After laboring for years in his small Brooklyn apartment, he had his first New York gallery show when he was 64. He died from complications of Covid-19. This obituary is [...]

I wonder if it even occurs to young artists in the globalist, pluralist present to try to stake out a spot in art history by changing the way history goes. [...]

This was a year of highs that included political protest in the art world, a historic Whitney Biennial, inspiring monuments and a revamped MoMA. Unexpected Delights From retrospectives to debut [...]

'NOBODY PROMISED YOU TOMORROW: 50 YEARS AFTER STONEWALL' AT THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM (Through Dec. 8) In this large group show, 28 young queer and transgender artists, most born after 1980, [...]

On a recent Saturday there was strong foot traffic on the fifth floor of the Whitney Museum of American Art where the New York artist Rachel Harrison's exuberant midcareer survey [...]

His startling conceptual pieces (in one case using live creatures) commented on humanity, challenged conventional notions of art and sought to erase the artist's ego. Huang Yong Ping, a Conceptual [...]

The marvelous survey of 160 works, including paintings, drawings and notebooks, shows the great artist's hand and mind in constant action. PARIS -- To judge by the marketing hullabaloo, the [...]

LOS ANGELES -- I ask the artist Betye Saar, who is 93 and set to open concurrent solo shows this fall at two major museums -- the Museum of Modern [...]

RIDGEFIELD, Conn. -- With all the hullabaloo around the 50th anniversary of Stonewall, it's easy to forget that, well into the 1970s and beyond, to be an out gay artist [...]

'ARTISTS RESPOND: AMERICAN ART AND THE VIETNAM WAR, 1965-1975' AT SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM IN WASHINGTON (Through Aug. 18) Everything in ''Artists Respond,'' a big, inspiriting blast of a historical [...]

Lutz Bacher, an American Conceptual artist who, early in her career, adopted that fictional, masculine-sounding name, and who thereafter refused to reveal personal details about her life, died on May [...]

'SIAH ARMAJANI: FOLLOW THIS LINE' AT THE MET BREUER (Through June 2) Born in Iran, Armajani has been living in the United States since 1960. This retrospective ranges from work [...]

Given the political tensions that have sent spasms through the nation over the past two years, you might have expected -- hoped -- that the 2019 Whitney Biennial would be [...]

''This moment has caught me being as much a citizen as an artist,'' said the sculptor Martin Puryear on an afternoon in his studio in New York's Hudson River Valley [...]

'ANDY WARHOL -- FROM A TO B AND BACK AGAIN' AT THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART (Closing on March 31) Although this is the artist's first full American retrospective [...]

Carolee Schneemann, a prime mover of performance art, a feminist visionary and one of the most influential artists of the late 20th century, died on Wednesday at her home in [...]

Byline: HOLLAND COTTER Correction Appended The Metropolitan Museum of Art's new show, 'Thomas Cole's Journey: Atlantic Crossings' is gorgeous, politically right for right now, and a lesson in the mutability [...]

Byline: HOLLAND COTTER Many Western abstract painters in the early 20th century - Albers, Kandinsky, Mondrian - were deeply influenced by Asian art and philosophy, though no one dismissed them [...]

Byline: HOLLAND COTTER PARIS -- 'Give me a museum and I'll fill it,' Pablo Picasso reportedly said. Whether he did say it or not, it sounds like him, serial overproducer. [...]

The article reviews the exhibition "Pepon Osorio: My Beating Heart/Mi corazon latiente" featuring Osorio's assemblages and installations at the New Museum in Manhattan, New York until September 17, 2023.

'The Edge of the Empire' David Nolan 527 West 29th Street, Chelsea Through March 28 The Romanian artist Serban Savu, who was born in 1978 and lives in Cluj in […]

CORRECTION APPENDED In photographs the Italian artist Piero Manzoni looks like a cutie, with his moon face, clowning smile and baggy Fred Mertz pants. But the art he's best known […]

The artist and writer Unica Zurn (1916-1970) worked as a film editor and journalist before turning her attention to fiction, poetry and art. In 1953, divorced and the mother of […]

Grey Art Gallery New York University 100 Washington Square East Greenwich Village Through March 20 This group show is the result of a competition established by Philip Morris in Japan […]

Romanticism was referred to as a sickness in its day. Modern psychiatry might just call it magical thinking: a vision of what the world could be, should be, would be, […]

'Cartographies' at the Bronx Museum of the Arts is a frustrating exhibition with decent ingredients but no center. The show, organized by the Winnipeg Art Gallery in Manitoba, brings together […]

'Life in a Boundless Land: The Gaucho Scenes of Juan Manuel Blanes' at the Americas Society is pretty much what its title says it is: a gathering of work by […]

Curators hang it, viewers flock to it, scholars study it. But the people who know art most intimately are the people who preserve it. In a large room with clear […]

The 19th-century tradition of using the landscape as a vehicle for social commentary has had few takers among contemporary artists. Neil Jenney (born in 1945) is one of them, and […]

The Bronx Museum of the Arts annually offers a 12-week crash course for emerging artists in the how-to's of their profession, from making art to organizing portfolios to figuring out […]

In 1906, when Matisse showed Picasso an African sculpture he had recently bought, a fresh chapter opened in the history of both European and African art. European modernism took a […]

As the tide of didactic, agenda-driven art begins to recede, and the complex, personal voice comes to the fore, an artist like Joan Snyder is starting to get the attention […]

Lester Johnson Edward Thorp 103 Prince Street SoHo Through April 2 The deft, vaporous recent watercolor views of southern France in Lester Johnson's show are evidence of a long career […]

Political art's weaknesses can also be its strengths. No art dates faster, yet none can so well capture the temperature of its time. No art can more easily fall into […]

'Driven to Create: The Anthony Petullo Collection of Self-Taught and Outsider Art' at the Museum of American Folk Art is a lively show that has some problems, beginning with the […]

William L. Hawkins Ricco/Maresca Gallery 152 Wooster Street (near Houston Street) SoHo Through Oct. 23 William L. Hawkins was a self-taught artist from Kentucky who died in 1990 at the […]

American Social Realism has never received much critical attention, and many artists identified with that style, particularly those outside New York, dropped from sight after World War II. Arthur Murphy […]

Although 'Ante America' ('Regarding America'), at the Queens Museum of Art, is billed as a show of Latin American art, it could easily be subtitled 'contemporary art from a few […]

The cold war between contemporary art and crafts is still on. The Pattern and Decorative movement of the 1970's tried to effect a truce, but negotiations faltered in the 80's. […]

Anyone who still thinks of Abstract Expressionism strictly as bullish, monumental painting created by disaffected male heroes can think again. The Metropolitan Museum of Art's 'Abstract Expressionism: Works on Paper,' […]

Countless catalogues are available on contemporary artists who have barely reached mid-career, but books on American modernists of the inter-war years are few and far between. The names of John […]

'The Room' Joan T. Washburn Gallery 20 West 57th Street Through Dec. 5 This gallery has taken advantage of its compact new quarters to create a historical group show of […]

This is a big year for Wifredo Lam (1902-1982). Two major exhibitions are scheduled for Europe, another will be mounted at the Studio Museum in Harlem in January and at […]

The terms usually applied to describe Morris Graves's work -- poetic, eccentric, intimate, otherworldly -- are all accurate, which may account for the fact that he is a decidedly peripheral […]

The British artist Lucian Freud has received belated but fascinated attention in America in the past five years, thanks to successive traveling shows of his paintings and works on paper. […]

Japan has a vibrant contemporary art scene, though we haven't seen much evidence of it in New York City of late. The last major exhibition of younger artists was the […]

The German painter Lovis Corinth (1858-1925) was by all accounts an enormous, bumptious man -- 'like a polar bear with small red eyes,' the art historian Julius Meier-Graefe recalled -- […]

If visitors to 'Challenging the Past: The Paintings of Chang Dai-chien' at Asia Society initially assume they've wandered into a group show by mistake, they're not exactly wrong. This Chinese […]