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His new paintings, with their perfect planes of color, expand on the theme of ''Black Joy,'' proving that delight and humor are their own form of resistance. In ''I Can [...]

Byline: Roberta Smith The gift of 220 artworks from the artist's foundation to the august Metropolitan Museum of Art seems at odds with the institution it hopes to become. How [...]

A former lawyer, he showcased artists who tackled issues like women's rights, the environment, totalitarianism and war. Ronald Feldman, who for nearly 50 years oversaw one of New York's most [...]

Holland Cotter, Jason Farago and Roberta Smith round up their favorite books, from museum catalogs of high-profile shows to photographs by Native artists to the treasures of Ukraine. Lots of [...]

Holland Cotter, Jason Farago and Roberta Smith round up their favorite books, from museum catalogs of high-profile shows to photographs by Native artists to the treasures of Ukraine. Lots of [...]

Byline: Roberta Smith You never know what you don't know, until, suddenly, you do. Who doesn't love Vermeer's 1669-70 painting, 'The Lacemaker,' with its soft light and aura of beatific, [...]

This was a year whose high points included an adult-feeling Whitney Biennial, a major survey of contemporary Puerto Rican art, and one of the great big-little exhibitions of all time. [...]

You never know what you don't know, until, suddenly, you do. Who doesn't love Vermeer's 1669-70 painting, ''The Lacemaker,'' with its soft light and aura of beatific, if not virginal [...]

Byline: Roberta Smith A new exhibition shows the artist going deeper into the blues, greens and yellows of the French countryside, and into the act of painting itself. The painter [...]

A new exhibition shows the artist going deeper into the blues, greens and yellows of the French countryside, and into the act of painting itself. The painter Joan Mitchell, who [...]

Byline: Roberta Smith In the artist's overdue retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, there is much to see besides her notorious pocket-size sculpture. One of the great things about [...]

In the artist's overdue retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, there is much to see besides her notorious pocket-size sculpture. One of the great things about ''Meret Oppenheim: My [...]

Byline: Roberta Smith His eight-decade retrospective at the Guggenheim is a dazzling matchup of singular artworks - some fresh from the studio - and celebrated spiral. At first the prospect [...]

His eight-decade retrospective at the Guggenheim is a dazzling matchup of singular artworks -- some fresh from the studio -- and celebrated spiral. At first the prospect of an Alex [...]

Diane Arbus Through Oct. 22. David Zwirner Gallery, 537 West 20th Street, Manhattan; 212-517-8677, davidzwirner.com. When a retrospective of photographs by Diane Arbus opened at the Museum of Modern Art [...]

Byline: Roberta Smith The paintings of this self-taught artist slipped from view after his death in 1946. A lavish exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum speeds his return. It [...]

The paintings of this self-taught artist slipped from view after his death in 1946. A lavish exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum speeds his return. It is a testament [...]

Casa Malaparte Through Oct. 22. Gagosian, 821 Park Avenue, Manhattan; 212-796-1228, gagosian.com. ''Why does money matter so much in what we do, in what we are, in what we become?'' [...]

Before the Civil War, an enslaved artisan from South Carolina created storage vessels that transcend ceramic traditions. At the center of ''Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, [...]

Roberta Smith, co-chief art critic, on fall exhibitions that capture a period during which art and art history have been in flux, including the New Museum's survey of the polymathic [...]

Byline: Roberta Smith The artist has been a major - if underrecognized - American talent. But the biggest look yet at her achievement gives it a whole new stature. If [...]

The artist has been a major -- if underrecognized -- American talent. But the biggest look yet at her achievement gives it a whole new stature. If you've paid any [...]

Hughie Lee-Smith at Karma; ''Black Atlantic'' at Brooklyn Bridge Park; and Emily Furr at Sargent's Daughters. Hughie Lee-Smith Through Sept. 17, Karma, 22 East Second Street, Manhattan; 212-390-8290, karmakarma.org. The [...]

Tiona Nekkia McClodden's new show is a multidimensional meditation on guns as weapons and as sources for her work. In the last three years, Tiona Nekkia McClodden has emerged as [...]

Her landmark work, ''Rhapsody,'' inspired by New York City subway signs, comprises 987 enameled plates and stretches for 153 feet. Jennifer Bartlett, a New York artist whose Conceptual paintings executed [...]

Byline: Roberta Smith She created some of the most memorable works of her era. Now the activist-artist is back with two immersive shows, at MoMA and David Zwirner Gallery. Barbara [...]

She created some of the most memorable works of her era. Now the activist-artist is back with two immersive shows, at MoMA and David Zwirner Gallery. Barbara Kruger has changed [...]

His paintings refer to race and racism, pride and prejudice, in ways that startled, seduced, elucidated, and horrified. Now they are at the New Museum. Watch out. A raucous, enthralling [...]

A brilliant colorist, he hung his canvases from ceilings in great curves and loops, or pinned them, gathered, to walls, taking his medium into three dimensions. Sam Gilliam, a pioneering [...]

Byline: Roberta Smith The Nigerian-born British fashion designer examines the many ways and meanings of pattern in everything from wallpaper to ceremonial hats. Good things almost always happen when museums [...]

The Nigerian-born British fashion designer examines the many ways and meanings of pattern in everything from wallpaper to ceremonial hats. Good things almost always happen when museums invite outsiders to [...]

Byline: Roberta Smith A show at the Metropolitan Museum presents us with what is in many ways a whole new artist whose achievement in painting will need to be factored [...]

A show at the Metropolitan Museum presents us with what is in many ways a whole new artist whose achievement in painting will need to be factored into art history. [...]

The world's largest, most luxurious and hard-to-get-to art fair embraces its new manageable size and accessible location. Thank the art fair gods. Among the changes wrought in the art world [...]

Shows in Hartford and New York spotlight great works by Milton Avery from every decade, and those of Sally Michel, who helped shape her husband's art. HARTFORD, Conn. -- There [...]

The objects in the painting are brought together in a spectacular show at the Museum of Modern Art. It's a marvel of detective work by the curators. The Museum of [...]

His works, depicting crudely-drawn images of balloon-like faces, beach balls, flowers, globes or ice cream cones, brought him fame in New York in the 1980s. Donald Baechler was part of [...]

At 46, the well-known painter changes direction, emphasizing intuition over concept to make the most riveting paintings of his career. Joe Bradley has been having solo shows in New York [...]

A show of masterworks at the Met snaps into sharp focus the great American artist's contemporary relevance. The wondrous exhibition ''Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents'' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art begins [...]

From our critics, reviews of closed gallery shows around New York City. Elizabeth McIntosh Through July 1. Canada, 60 Lispenard Street, Manhattan. 212-925-4631; http://canadanewyork.com/. Our planet will never avoid eco-disaster [...]

A show in two downtown galleries surveys the Covid cityscapes of this multitalented artist, who has become one of the town's best painters. ''Stop flitting around the house and take [...]

On the fair's 30th anniversary, a question hangs in the air: Has this genre been absorbed by the mainstream? What is 'outsider' when its greatest talents are in the canon? [...]

A challenging three-part exhibition at the Shed provides the most extensive look at the many activities of the visionary artist, whose work with spiders teaches us about our future. The [...]

Familiarity breeds surprises at the Met's survey of the American sculptor, whose work suggests that the past is never dead -- in a good way. The Metropolitan Museum of Art [...]