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The Times's art critics select 26 of their favorite art books and books related to art of the year. A four-volume Leonardo da Vinci compilation, the writings of Jill Johnston, [...]

'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 [...]

Byline: Holland Cotter She set out to change humanity. Now a superbly installed survey at the Shed charts this visionary artist's 50-year journey. We'll be lucky this art season if [...]

We'll be lucky this art season if we get another exhibition as tautly beautiful as ''Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates'' at the Shed. And we'll be right to ponder why [...]

Byline: Holland Cotter 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 [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Holland Cotter 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 [...]

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 [...]

When the Museum of Modern Art reopens on Oct. 21 after a $450-million, 47,000-square-foot expansion, it will finally, if still cautiously, reveal itself to be a living, breathing 21st-century institution, [...]

'LEONARDO DA VINCI'S ''SAINT JEROME''' AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART (Through Oct. 6) The 500th anniversary of Leonardo's death in 1519 will bring big doings to Paris this fall [...]

Byline: Holland Cotter Alvin Baltrop's photographs of the abandoned Hudson River piers and the people who populated them in the 1970s and '80s have been all but ignored. Until now. [...]

Alvin Baltrop's photographs of the abandoned Hudson River piers and the people who populated them in the 1970s and '80s have been all but ignored. Until now. New York City [...]

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 [...]

Art museums are increasingly under an ethical searchlight. Recently, sources of patronage have been protested, leading one Whitney Museum of American Art donor and trustee, whose wealth comes from the [...]

Byline: Holland Cotter 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 [...]

'STONEWALL 50 AT THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: LETTING LOOSE AND FIGHTING BACK: L.G.B.T.Q. NIGHTLIFE BEFORE AND AFTER STONEWALL' (Through Sept. 22) One of three micro-shows, this exhibition is devoted to [...]

'2019 WHITNEY BIENNIAL' AT THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART (Through Sept. 22) Given the political tensions over the past two years, you might have expected that this year's biennial [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Holland Cotter The 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci will bring big doings to Paris this fall with the largest-ever and one-stop-only career survey at the [...]

Byline: Holland Cotter David Koloane, a pivotal figure in the art of apartheid-era South Africa - as a painter, teacher, activist and organizer of community-based black and interracial art centers [...]

Byline: Holland Cotter It's been a while since I was last truly startled by contemporary sculpture, enough to make me wonder 'How on earth did someone even think to do [...]

David Koloane, a pivotal figure in the art of apartheid-era South Africa -- as a painter, teacher, activist and organizer of community-based black and interracial art centers -- died on [...]

It's been a while since I was last truly startled by contemporary sculpture, enough to make me wonder ''How on earth did someone even think to do this, never mind [...]

The 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci will bring big doings to Paris this fall with the largest-ever and one-stop-only career survey at the Louvre. And New [...]

'ART AFTER STONEWALL, 1969-1989' AT GREY ART GALLERY AND LESLIE-LOHMAN MUSEUM (Through July 21) The largest of the art exhibitions in remembrance of the Stonewall uprising is this two-parter, organized [...]

'LOVE & RESISTANCE: STONEWALL 50' AT NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY (Through July 13) Organized by Jason Baumann, this archival show functions as a timeline of the gay rights movement from [...]

The exhibition ''Culture and the People: El Museo del Barrio, 1969-2019'' is a golden anniversary survey of wonderful art from the collection of a New York museum that is in [...]

'THE WORLD BETWEEN EMPIRES: ART AND IDENTITY IN THE ANCIENT MIDDLE EAST' AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART (Through June 23) This epic-scale archaeological exhibition brings together work made between [...]

Joe Overstreet, an artist and activist who in the 1960s took abstract painting into the sculptural dimension and later created a home in New York for artists who had been [...]

What I'll miss during the Museum of Modern Art's four-month public shutdown is something I've already been missing for five years and will probably continue to miss when the expanded [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Holland Cotter 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, [...]

At times the fight for civil rights is a straight road pocked with speed bumps; at other times a maddening spiral of detours. It was a battlefield in the early [...]

Byline: Holland Cotter 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 [...]

'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 [...]

For generations Americans tended to see art museums as alternatives to crass everyday life. Like libraries, they were for learning; like churches, for reflection. You went to them for a [...]

Byline: Holland Cotter '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 [...]

Below and Above Canal Street ''The art world should be understood as a complex ecology with many microclimates and some macro ones,'' said the curator Okwui Enwezor, who died in [...]

'LUCIO FONTANA: ON THE THRESHOLD' AT THE MET BREUER (Closing on Sunday) The art of this Argentine-Italian modernist looks a bit like it comes from another planet, and it might [...]

Byline: Holland Cotter WASHINGTON - Whatever happened to 'protest art' - issue-specific, say-no-to-power-and-say-it-loud art? Here we are, embroiled, as a nation, in what many in the art world regard as [...]

WASHINGTON -- Whatever happened to ''protest art'' -- issue-specific, say-no-to-power-and-say-it-loud art? Here we are, embroiled, as a nation, in what many in the art world regard as a pretty desperate [...]

If it weren't for the Met Breuer, New Yorkers might never see exceptional shows like ''Siah Armajani: Follow This Line.'' Its career survey of this American artist is well-timed for [...]

'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 [...]

Archaeological shows, whether large or small, are like icebergs. What you see is the tip of a mountain of history submerged in the ocean of time. ''The World Between Empires: [...]

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 [...]

ATLANTA -- ATLANTA -- If you had visited Atlanta in the early 1960s, you would have found drinking fountains labeled ''Colored'' and ''White.'' Driving into the city from the airport [...]