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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 [...]

Yes, it's better to see this great flutter of planes, volumes and edges in person. But an online visit is the next best thing. Donald Judd's large, untitled installation piece [...]

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 work of the [...]

The first New York museum exhibition on a still-mysterious painter inspired by the abstract beauty of the American desert. A few years ago, I interrupted a panel discussion at the [...]

NOAH DAVIS AT DAVID ZWIRNER (Through Saturday) The 27 canvases in this exhilarating show -- the largest yet for this ambitious figurative painter who died in 2015 at the age [...]

Byline: Roberta Smith The first large exhibition of paintings by the young Los Angeles-based artist, who died in 2015, impresses on several fronts at David Zwirner. Art history is full [...]

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 [...]

'EDITH HALPERT AND THE RISE OF AMERICAN ART' AT THE JEWISH MUSEUM (Through Feb. 9) This rare show covers the life of an influential art gallery, founded in 1926 by [...]

Art fairs are for looking, looking and more looking. They offer the concentrated absorption of the visual, cultural and historical, compressed into one location. A manageable size helps, along with [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Roberta Smith, Holland Cotter and Jason Farago This was a year of highs that included political protest in the art world, a historic Whitney Biennial, inspiring monuments and a [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Byline: Roberta Smith The dealer Edith Gregor Halpert helped put American art on the map - and then she vanished. It's not a good sign when you step into an [...]

The dealer Edith Gregor Halpert helped put American art on the map -- and then she vanished. It's not a good sign when you step into an art exhibition and [...]

E.A. Carmean Jr., a museum curator and director and modern art expert who, responding to a higher calling midway through his career, entered a seminary and became an Episcopal canon, [...]

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 [...]

The Museum of Modern Art, which opens on Oct. 21, is not what it used to be -- and not yet what it may become. While still very much in [...]

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 [...]

In his new book, the photographer reveals the essence of important buildings. In conversation, he has a few unvarnished things to say about some of them. Of all contemporary photographers, [...]

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; [...]

In the 1960s art world, illusion was a dirty word. The old tradition of a painting as a window onto imaginary realities seemed beyond exhausted -- just more proof of [...]

Byline: Roberta Smith After her famous portrait of Michelle Obama, the artist is bringing her new works to New York. 'Every painting is a kind of communion,' our critic says. [...]

This autumn the excavation, reconstitution and globalization of 20th-century modernism continues apace. And that's not just because the new, improved Museum of Modern Art is reopening next month, although let's [...]

What a difference a presidential portrait makes. Two years ago, Amy Sherald's painting career was slowly if belatedly picking up steam. She was 44 and after a four-year hiatus from [...]

On Jan. 3, 1969, the Kinetic artist known as Takis marched into the Museum of Modern Art. He entered an exhibition called ''The Machine at the End of the Mechanical [...]

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 [...]

Byline: Roberta Smith At the Clark Art Institute, when you tire of Renoir's nudes, look at Ida Ten Eyck O'Keeffe's quietly insistent art, some of which survived long enough to [...]

'CAMP: NOTES ON FASHION' AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART (Through Sept. 8) Inspired by Susan Sontag's 1964 essay, ''Notes on 'Camp,''' the latest spectacular from the Met's Costume Institute [...]

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 [...]

After half a century of intermittent debate and protest, the San Francisco Board of Education voted unanimously in June to whitewash the 13 murals depicting the life of George Washington [...]