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Leon Kossoff, whose expressionistic portraits and images of urban life made him one of the most important painters of postwar Britain, died on July 4 in London. He was 92. [...]

Good things tend to happen when a museum invites an artist to sift through its holdings and curate an exhibition from other people's works. Artists look at a collection more [...]

Joyce Pensato, a painter who took the Abstract out of Abstract Expressionism and added a little Pop, making large-scale black-and-white paintings that transformed popular cartoon characters into ambiguous, emotionally complex [...]

Art styles don't die; they barely go away. They can be exhausted by uninspired overuse, go out of fashion or be judged hopelessly reactionary. After that they mostly lie dormant [...]

Some of the best paintings of Surrealism were made in Mexico during the 1940s and '50s, by women. The proof is here, in two astounding exhibitions: ''Surrealism in Mexico,'' a [...]

Byline: Roberta Smith The Museum of Modern Art is slouching toward a shutdown starting June 15, in order to complete its latest expansion - which is really an attempt to [...]

The Museum of Modern Art is slouching toward a shutdown starting June 15, in order to complete its latest expansion -- which is really an attempt to fix the last [...]

Byline: Roberta Smith Virginia Zabriskie, an art dealer whose New York and Paris galleries specialized in modern and contemporary American works of the non-blue-chip kind, and who helped establish photography [...]

Virginia Zabriskie, an art dealer whose New York and Paris galleries specialized in modern and contemporary American works of the non-blue-chip kind, and who helped establish photography as a fine [...]

Byline: Roberta Smith Thomas Nozkowski, whose small, insistent, richly hued abstractions upended the heroic scale of postwar New York art and helped push painting in a more accessible, personal and [...]

'MORONI: THE RICHES OF RENAISSANCE PORTRAITURE' AT THE FRICK COLLECTION (Through Sunday) Giovanni Battista Moroni, among the best of underappreciated Renaissance painters, brought a new level of naturalism to his [...]

Byline: Roberta Smith Not every enduring literary masterpiece inspires a thousand years of often great art. 'The Tale of Genji,' written in early-11th-century Japan and possibly the world's first novel, [...]

Not every enduring literary masterpiece inspires a thousand years of often great art. ''The Tale of Genji,'' written in early-11th-century Japan and possibly the world's first novel, is an exception. [...]

Byline: Roberta Smith Jeff Koons is back on top, if on top means holding the highest auction price for a living artist, as hyped by the auction house responsible. Mr. [...]

In March 2018 the designer Rei Kawakubo held a Comme des Garçons show in Paris dedicated to the subject of camp, and sparked by Susan Sontag's 1964 essay ''Notes on [...]

Byline: Roberta Smith Ben Heller, an influential New York art collector and dealer best known for his early embrace of Abstract Expressionism and the sale of one of its masterworks [...]

Ben Heller, an influential New York art collector and dealer best known for his early embrace of Abstract Expressionism and the sale of one of its masterworks to an Australian [...]

Dash Snow Through May 12. Participant Inc., 253 East Houston, Manhattan; 212-254-4334, participantinc.org. Dash Snow died in 2009 of a drug overdose at the age of 27, and this sad, [...]

Lower East Side The arc of the Lower East Side gallery scene bends toward youth. It is probably home to the greatest number of starting-out dealers showing the works of [...]

People can find visiting galleries intimidating, mysterious or irksome, but it needn't be, even for beginners. There's no time like our annual Spring Gallery Guide to discuss the basics (and [...]

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 [...]

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 so it is [...]

For me, the 2018-19 art season will always belong to the Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862-1944). I say this simply as a measure of the psychic and historical shift [...]

For me, the 2018-19 art season will always belong to the Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862-1944). I say this simply as a measure of the psychic and historical shift [...]

Many of the works in ''Programmed: Rules, Codes and Choreographies in Art, 1965-2018,'' an exhibition at the Whitney Museum, require an electrical outlet. The presentation -- drawn mostly from the [...]

Artists are picky people. The objects they live with -- furniture, artifacts, ceramics, works by other artists -- are usually carefully chosen, and they look it. They highlight an artist's [...]

Byline: Roberta Smith and Alastair Macaulay The relentlessly busy life, aesthetic proclivities and multimedia achievements of Lincoln Kirstein - this country's most catalytic balletomane - are in high relief right [...]