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The first monograph of a painter's painter brings a jolt of new insight and a confident show of her works' mindfulness and beauty. Alice Trumbull Mason, a painter who never [...]

This Bay Area artist's enduring, multifaceted achievement deserves more respect from New York than it has garnered thus far. Sometimes viewing an art exhibition online isn't so much an inconvenience [...]

Galleries and museums are getting creative about presenting work online during the coronavirus crisis. Here are some shows worth viewing virtually. Ida Kohlmeyer Through May 23. Berry Campbell, Manhattan; 212-924-2178, [...]

The first large exhibition of paintings by the young Los Angeles-based artist, who died in 2015, impresses on several fronts. Art history is full of artists whose careers, cut short [...]

The mesmerizing, frustrating world of Félix Vallotton, now at the Metropolitan Museum. The Swiss painter and printmaker Félix Vallotton was an intriguing, talented but slippery artist. From painting to painting [...]

'VIJA CELMINS: TO FIX THE IMAGE IN MEMORY' AT THE MET BREUER (Through Jan. 12) This ravishing show of modestly scaled paintings and drawings connects the world and human life [...]

A posthumous show by one of the most talented painters of his generation reveals a ''visionary fusion of form and feeling,'' our critic writes. On Oct. 2, the artist Matthew [...]

'ARTISTIC LICENSE: SIX TAKES ON THE GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION' AT THE SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM (Through Jan. 12) Displays that artists select from a museum's collection are almost inevitably interesting, revealing [...]

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 [...]

Ed Clark, an African-American abstract painter who used a push broom and bold colors to allude to the natural world and at times to convey emotions about racial injustice, earning [...]

Roy DeCarava famously turned Harlem into his canvas, but there is much more to see -- and feel -- in his new retrospective. One of the best exhibitions of the [...]

Sol LeWitt's book art; Ridley Howard's paintings; Kahlil Robert Irving's assemblages; Yvonne Thomas's abstractions; and William Powhida's critical chart-paintings. Sol LeWitt Through Oct. 1. Printed Matter; 231 11th Avenue, Manhattan; [...]

Roger Brown, the Imagist painter and collector extraordinaire, was born in Alabama in 1941 to a religious family that encouraged his art. He remained close to them, returning home in [...]

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Poor Pierre-Auguste Renoir. On the centennial of his death, his achievements are still something art historians, feminists, artists and critics argue about. His work has not settled [...]

Good things tend to happen when a museum invites an artist to sift through its holdings and curate an exhibition from other people's works. Artists look at a collection more [...]

Art styles don't die; they barely go away. They can be exhausted by uninspired overuse, go out of fashion or be judged hopelessly reactionary. After that they mostly lie dormant [...]

'MORONI: THE RICHES OF RENAISSANCE PORTRAITURE' AT THE FRICK COLLECTION (Through Sunday) Giovanni Battista Moroni, among the best of underappreciated Renaissance painters, brought a new level of naturalism to his [...]

Byline: Roberta Smith Jeff Koons is back on top, if on top means holding the highest auction price for a living artist, as hyped by the auction house responsible. Mr. [...]

Lower East Side The arc of the Lower East Side gallery scene bends toward youth. It is probably home to the greatest number of starting-out dealers showing the works of [...]

For me, the 2018-19 art season will always belong to the Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862-1944). I say this simply as a measure of the psychic and historical shift [...]

For me, the 2018-19 art season will always belong to the Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862-1944). I say this simply as a measure of the psychic and historical shift [...]

Artists are picky people. The objects they live with -- furniture, artifacts, ceramics, works by other artists -- are usually carefully chosen, and they look it. They highlight an artist's [...]

Irwin Hollander, an artist and a master printer who persuaded Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell and other Abstract Expressionist painters to try their hands at lithography in his East Village [...]

Irwin Hollander, an artist and a master printer who persuaded Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell and other Abstract Expressionist painters to try their hands at lithography in his East Village [...]

Robert Rainwater, a curator and art historian who oversaw an expansion of the New York Public Library's holdings in modern and contemporary prints, artist-made books and printed ephemera from the [...]

Richard Prince is losing his cool -- or at least some of it. And that's a good thing. His new paintings -- in a show titled ''Richard Prince: High Times,'' [...]

Byline: ROBERTA SMITH The Congolese polymath Bodys Isek Kingelez (1948-2015) wasn't shy about his greatness. Describing himself as 'a small god,' and an 'enlightened artist of new horizons,' he claimed [...]

Art would be a little better off if some museum would organize a good-sized exhibition representing all the artists mentioned in ''Specific Objects,'' the well-known essay that Donald Judd published [...]

Byline: ROBERTA SMITH Unfinished paintings are enticing cracks in the facade of art history, lures along the path to a deeper understanding of artistic processes and impulses. For all the [...]

Despite an extreme difference in artistic styles, the New York painters Philip Pearlstein and Al Held were friends for nearly 50 years. A fascinating show that pairs examples of their [...]

'SPACED OUT/ON TIME' Canada 55 Chrystie Street, near Canal Street Lower East Side Through Oct. 11 A big reason to see this group show is the powerful 'Woman Waiting in […]

Art takes total commitment, but few artists maintain it around the clock. An exception is the Taiwanese-born performance artist Tehching Hsieh (pronounced dur-ching shay), specifically, the five, grueling one-year pieces […]

FROM A HIGH PLACE A Life of Arshile Gorky By Matthew Spender Illustrated. 417 pages. Alfred A. Knopf. $35. The lives of great artists tend to be overshadowed by their […]

Simon Dickinson/Newhouse Galleries 19 East 66th Street Through May 26 This intermingling of paintings from Simon Dickinson and sculptures from the London dealer Daniel Katz packs quite a bit of […]

Of all the love-hate relationships that roil the art world, none is more fraught or more stimulating than that between artists and museums. This makes perfect sense, since the two […]

It's always an event when the febrile, radiant art of Charles Burchfield, America's visionary watercolorist, is spread generously before the eye, as it is in the sprawling retrospective at the […]

'Great painters paint in order to learn to paint.' The words of the French pedagogue and painter Andre Lohte apply with particular accuracy to the career of Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The […]

AC2K 'SoHo So Long' American Fine Arts Company 22 Wooster Street SoHo Through Aug. 31 The announcement to this exhibition states that AC2K is the artist (actually artists) formerly known […]

An exceptional show at the Robert Miller Gallery reminds us that there is more to Philip Pearlstein's well-made art than his perversely clinical paintings of cadaverous nudes exuding palpable ennui […]

The unexpected news delivered by the handsome retrospective of Roy Lichtenstein's prints at the National Gallery of Art here is that his graphic works are as good as his paintings, […]

A sleeper of the current art season is 'Worlds Envisioned,' a wise and beautiful exhibition at the Dia Center for the Arts in Chelsea. It convincingly brings together the work […]

In New York in the 1940's, the Russian-born artist Pavel Tchelitchev was sometimes seen as Jackson Pollock's chief rival. His work was actively promoted by Charles Henri Ford, editor of [...]

AFTER years of working in obscurity, Louise Bourgeois is on the verge of overexposure. Granted it's gratifying to see an 83-year-old woman achieve art-star status and become as ubiquitous on […]

LUDWIG BEMELMANS, who died in New York City in 1962 at the age of 64, was an artist of many minor keys, all equally tuneful and infused with wit and […]

'In Memory of Douglas Morse Howell' Washburn Gallery 20 West 57th Street Manhattan Through July 29 During his long career, Douglas Morse Howell, who died in February at the age […]

Painting rules in the major museums on Long Island this summer. De Kooning is to the east, American and French landscape painting of the 19th and 20th centuries to the […]

The first exhibition that the Museum of Modern Art has devoted exclusively to art by women has a cramped, confined-to-quarters atmosphere. 'Sense and Sensibility: Women Artists and Minimalism in the […]

Life and art are never very far apart, but within the 20th century they may never be closer than in the work of Pablo Picasso. From the beginning to the […]