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With the spirited, sense-surround show called ''Edges of Ailey'' at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New York art season gets off to an exuberant, enveloping, though puzzling start. [...]

An ultra-polished survey of the artist's works at David Zwirner -- some not seen before -- demonstrate how preservation and change can coexist. My old friend Shepherd Raimi, who had [...]

A riveting show at the Metropolitan Museum surveys the complicated art of the ancient Maya, in which beauty and brutality are surreally entangled. Beautiful is complicated. Gorgeous sunset skies can [...]

Chilean-born, New York-based, she emerges at the Guggenheim after years under the art-market radar with just the right scrappy feel. After the spectacle of high-end hoarding that was this spring's [...]

The long-delayed survey, now wrapped in the equivalent of caution tape, opens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. It's been a learning-curve climb for four venues. BOSTON -- On [...]

Some 60 celebrated landscapes are part of a rehang at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Don't pass them by: They are demanding to the eye and mind alike. It always [...]

''Mind/Mirror,'' a monumental retrospective at the Whitney Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, reveals an artist's protean talent, changing perspectives and resiliency over six decades. ''Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror,'' the [...]

Great is what this art is, yet it raises doubts about whether any art, however ''great,'' can be considered exempt from moral scrutiny. BOSTON -- With its small supernova of [...]

In a show curated by the critic Antwaun Sargent, ''Black art'' and ''social practice'' are not just market-ready concepts. There's a chill breeze blowing through Gagosian's West 24th Street galleries [...]

A big, juicy exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts turns an embracing eye on Black artists in the American South. RICHMOND, Va. -- Some of the country's most [...]

Assembled in a mere four months, pivoting off an important national event, the Speed Museum offers a new, relevant model for aging institutions. LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- People talk a lot [...]

The museum's first triennial, imperfect but stimulating, has successfully landed. For much of the past year, New York City's museum clock has been running on Covid time. When lockdown hit [...]

Goya, Caravaggio, Rubens, Velázquez and more are in skylit splendor in the European galleries. And the museum is acknowledging the shaping force on art of colonialism, slavery, the disenfranchisement of [...]

Studio Museum in Harlem144 West 125th StreetThrough Oct. 30 Police violence has brought the image of the black body back into art with the symbolic force it had in the [...]

Gay Pride Month, a season of optimism and solidarity, was slammed by a nightmare last weekend with the murder of 49 people in a gay dance club in Orlando, Fla. [...]

As scholarship on modern art in Latin America continues to unfold, Hunter College helps fill out the record with a small, perfectly poised exhibition of work by Gego (Gertrude Goldschmidt, [...]

BOSTON -- The snapshots of savagery that the news media withholds -- of mass murder, torture and rape in progress -- Francisco Goya placed front and center in his art. [...]

PHILADELPHIA -- Queer is here to stay. So are feminism, art history, unruly flesh, anarchic laughter and painting. You'll find them all in ''Dear Nemesis, Nicole Eisenman 1993-2013,'' at the [...]

JERRY KEARNS 'Rrrgghh!!!' Mike Weiss Gallery 520 West 24th Street, Chelsea Through Aug. 23 Jerry Kearns grew up in a churchgoing Baptist family in South Carolina in the 1940s and [...]

Circa 1960, Germany was newly rich, geographically split, mum about its recent past and churning out young artists by the score. Two of them, Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke, would [...]

In a world laid bare to technological scrutiny, a retreat to the psychological dark side seems like a smart idea, and that's where ''New Hells'', organized by Isaac Lyles, associate [...]

Since opening last year, Taymour Grahne Gallery has been a boon to New York, which has few other outlets for contemporary art from the Middle East. Its current show offers [...]

Nobody keeps a closer eye on an artist than other artists. So when Karina Daskalov, a director at Marian Goodman Gallery, was planning the inevitable summer group show, she called [...]

Poets House 10 River Terrace, at Murray Street, Battery Park City, Lower Manhattan Through Sept. 20 Artists's artists make up a highly select category. Poets' artists occupy an even narrower [...]

Hauser & Wirth 32 East 69th Street, Manhattan Through Saturday The work of the Brazilian artist Mira Schendel (1919-1988) is materially fragile, but tough and searching in its ideas, like [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDI've never met an animal I didn't like. And birds? Bring them on, which is what the New-York Historical Society is doing with a whoosh of wings and cries [...]

What do you do if you're a busy museum, and an eminent and famously enigmatic artist in late career tells you he's prepared to go public with new work? You [...]

Henrique Faria Fine Art 35 East 67th Street, fourth floor, Manhattan Through March 22 Developments in Emilia Azcarate's art appear to reflect changes in her spiritual life. Born in Venezuela [...]

Winkleman Gallery 621 West 27th Street Through Feb. 15 Born in Moscow in 1972 and now living in New York City, the conceptualist Yevgeniy Fiks is a virtuoso in the [...]

Susan Inglett Gallery 522 West 24th Street, Chelsea Through Feb. 1 The idea of this group show, organized by the artist William Villalongo, is that art can look good and [...]

In recent years some of our big Chelsea galleries have given us what are basically museum shows. From Gagosian, a while back, came an invaluable retrospective of Piero Manzoni, followed [...]

Jack Shainman Gallery 524 West 24th Street, Chelsea Through Saturday The four new paintings in Brad Kahlhamer's show, his first local solo since 2006, spin out references to contemporary Native [...]

Taymour Grahne Gallery 157 Hudson Street, TriBeCa Closes on Saturday The new Taymour Grahne Gallery in TriBeCa couldn't wish for a more auspicious kickoff than its excellent inaugural show of [...]

How much does the cash-drunk New York art industry care about racism, neocolonialism, wanton consumption, persistent sexism, environmental spoilage or any other global realities? Next to not at all. How [...]

Oh, no, I thought when I heard that the Museum of Modern Art's big fall show was a Ren Magritte survey. Dozens of undersung modernist painters, many of them women, [...]

NEWARK -- I often encounter Manhattan art professionals who consider themselves savvy, seasoned internationalists but who have never been across the Hudson River to the Newark Museum. This is ridiculous. [...]

With the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington coming at the end of the month, and the emotions generated by the trial of George Zimmerman in the killing of [...]

Pavel Zoubok Gallery 531 West 26th Street, Chelsea Through Aug. 9 Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt's career retrospective at MoMA PS1 last year was a plenitudinous affair, and now there's more of him [...]

Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art 26 Wooster Street, SoHo Through July 7 The Brooklyn-born Paul Thek (1933-1988) remains an elusive presence in contemporary art. He produced much [...]

Artists Space 38 Greene Street, SoHo Through Sunday Coming late in the season, this small survey of work by the Cuban-born artist Zilia Sanchez at Artists Space -- her first [...]

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery 100 11th Avenue, at 19th Street, Chelsea Through May 18 Benny Andrews was born into a sharecropping family in Plainview, Ga., in 1930; went to a local [...]

Alexander Gray Associates 508 West 26th Street, Chelsea Through Feb. 16 Art history has so far produced only a sketchy account of work that emerged from the AIDS epidemic of [...]

Venus Over Manhattan 980 Madison Avenue, at 76th Street Through Jan. 15 Jack Goldstein, who died a suicide at 57 in 2003, was one of contemporary art's mystery men. He [...]