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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 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, [...]

Byline: Roberta Smith Ceramics has come a remarkably long, raucous way since the early 1950s. That's when Peter Voulkos, inspired by Abstract Expressionist painting, upended the medium with an increased [...]

Byline: Roberta Smith Although famous for figurative works, the American modernist had a little-known foray into abstract painting that included some of his best work. An unfamiliar side of the [...]

Byline: Roberta Smith It's not often that the paintings of an Italian Renaissance master arrive in a New York museum unadorned by the aura of fame and towering talent, but [...]

LEON KOSSOFF From the Early Years, 1957-1967 Mitchell-Innes & Nash 534 West 26th Street, Chelsea Through March 28 This show is an informative treat. The early paintings of the British […]

WASHINGTON -- As told by most museums the history of American painting before modernism is usually a fairly dull tale. The narrative is dominated by artists with academic training who […]

With 'Landscapes Clear and Radiant: The Art of Wang Hui (1632-1717),' the Metropolitan Museum of Art takes its inaugural solo flight with classic Chinese painting. This dense, gorgeous and revelatory […]

Marianne Boesky 51 Greene Street, SoHo Through Nov. 20 In his first New York gallery show, the Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara blends high and low by combining the saturated color […]

Tony Shafrazi Gallery 119 Wooster Street SoHo Through May 28 Sandro Chia, once known with his Italian Neo-Expressionist colleagues Francesco Clemente and Enzo Cucchi as the 'three C's,'paints as if […]

Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery 526 West 26th Street Chelsea Through March 27 Esso Gallery 191 Chrystie Street, near Rivington Street Lower East Side Through April 17 The painter Donna Moylan has […]

Nicholas Krushenick, a New York painter whose bold, posterlike paintings were often called abstract Pop, died Friday at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan. He was 70 and lived in […]

Theo Hios, a New York painter and teacher, died on Sunday at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan. He was 90 and had homes in Manhattan and Hampton Bays, N.Y. During […]

Robert Miller Gallery 41 East 57th Street Manhattan Through Oct. 10 Seen in their New York gallery debut, Jason Martin's smartly coiffed monochrome paintings have so many precedents, and so […]

Thomas Demand 303 Gallery 525 West 22d Street Chelsea Through Oct. 14 If Clement Greenberg had cultivated a theory of photography akin to his reduction-to-essences directives about abstract painting, he […]

'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 […]

HOW COOL IS 20TH-CENTURY American painting? According to an exhibition at the Kunsthaus Zurich in Switzerland, it is intrinsically, perennially and diversely cool -- a veritable font of coolnesses. 'Birth […]

'In-Form' Bravin Post Lee Gallery 80 Mercer Street (near Broome Street) SoHo Through July 18 Few are the small painting group shows that can bring together a canvas by Francis […]

CINDY Sherman's face has launched a thousand theories, most of them post-modern. For much of the last 20 years, this 43-year-old artist has been starring in her own photographs, making […]

OVER the last several months, the Museum of Modern Art has brought off an impressive trilogy of painting exhibitions. Starting in the spring with Picasso's portraiture, followed immediately by an […]

Dan Flavin, a leading Minimalist sculptor known for working with fluorescent lights, died on Friday at a hospital in Riverhead, L.I. He was 63 and had homes in Wainscott, L.I., […]

Andy Warhol 'Rorschach Paintings' Gagosian Gallery 980 Madison Avenue, near 77th Street, and 136 Wooster Street, near Prince Street, SoHo Through Oct. 19 More than any other Pop artist, Andy […]

Michael A. Werboff, a Russian-born portraitist whose subjects included royalty and captains of industry as well as writers and artists, died on April 4 at his home in Manhattan. He […]

Even in homes where American painting of the late 19th century is a frequent topic, the name Thomas Wilmer Dewing probably isn't heard too frequently. Dewing was born in Boston […]

Somewhere in that unwritten, highly personal history of recent art that many art lovers carry in their heads, there's a list devoted to eagerly awaited museum shows that turned out […]

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 [...]

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 […]

Joe Brainard, an artist, writer, set designer and frequent collaborator with the New York School poets, died on Wednesday at New York University Medical Center in Manhattan. He was 52 […]

Stephen Greene Victoria Munroe Gallery 9 East 84th Street Manhattan Through April 2 While not a highly original painter, Stephen Greene has never faltered in the cultivation of his particular […]

'Alexander Liberman' 'The Circle Paintings' Gagosian Gallery 980 Madison Avenue (near 77th Street) Through Oct. 2 As the editorial director of Conde Nast Publications, Alexander Liberman is one of the […]

Carroll Cloar, a Realist painter whose 1966 painting of children holding an American flag was reproduced on a poster commemorating President Clinton's inauguration, died on Saturday at his home in […]

The best thing about 'Documenta 9,' the international exhibition of contemporary art that opened here on June 13, is that within its enormous, shapeless mass of artworks a rather good, […]

Kenkeleba Gallery, an alternate space on the Lower East Side, has always run on a shoestring, and in the current financing climate, that string is thinner than ever. But straitened […]

Today RICHARD PRINCE, Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Avenue, at 75th Street, Manhattan. From cool-handed photographs of fashion spreads and magazine advertisements to beautiful white paintings that incorporate […]

Moira Dryer, an abstract artist known for working in glowing colors on sheets of plywood, died yesterday at her home in Manhattan. She was 34 years old. She died of […]

It's not news that the human figure has returned to late-20th-century art. After all, the early 1980's brought to prominence Neo-Expressionists like Julian Schnabel, who blithely painted portraits across craggy […]

Leland Bell, a figurative painter and teacher, died on Wednesday at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. He was 69 years old and had homes in Manhattan and Reykjavik, […]

Only four viewing days remain for 'Ad Reinhardt,' the Museum of Modern Art's outstanding retrospective of one of America's most single-minded painters. Reinhardt, who died in 1966 at the age […]

The Gagosian Gallery exhibition of Sam Francis's elegantly explosive 'Blue Balls' paintings is something of an eye-opener. Made between 1960 and 1964, these often dazzling canvases release huge transparent spheres […]

Leon Golub Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway Through June 16 In tackling the wide-open spaces of the Brooklyn Museum's Grand Lobby, the painter Leon Golub has reconstituted his characteristic imagery […]

The display of Bill Jensen's 14 new paintings at the Washburn Gallery on 57th Street in Manhattan is engaging yet baffling. It is filled with canvases that, one way or […]

The rich, sprawling and occasionally confusing survey of Fauve landscape painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is best described as a something-for-everyone exhibition. Those who agree with Matisse that […]

'Classic Modernism: Six Generations,' a group show at the Sidney Janis Gallery, is an ode to abstract painting of the purest kind. The bare-bones approach to painting chronicled in this […]

LEAD: In 'The Intimate Interiors of Edouard Vuillard,' an exhibition of 74 paintings, 32 prints and drawings by the French artist at the Brooklyn Museum, artistic radicality is couched in […]

LEAD: Alice Neel, known for her fierce yet sympathetic portrayals of family, friends and art-world figures in slightly hallucinatory shades of oil paint, was not a dedicated maker of prints. […]

Lists the bests and worst changes in the new home of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Praise for the garden, lobby, bathroom stalls, new juxtapositions, new noise and bookstore; Concerns about the ticket price, lines for tickets and other services, logistics, the location of the Matisse painting "The Dance," walls, bridges and the atrium.

Previews the art exhibition "Masks, 1976-2004," featuring the works of painter Jeff Way at Fischbach Gallery in New York City. Consistency in Way's works; Schedule.

Previews the art exhibition "A Memorial," featuring the paintings of Gerome Kamrowski at Washburn in New York City. Surrealist Andre Breton's comments on Kamrowski's works; Description of the show's most striking paintings; Schedule.