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With nearly 70 paintings and a four-and-a-half-pound book, the exhibition ''Gertrude Abercrombie'' reintroduces New York to the lonely, poignant art of an overlooked American Surrealist painter from the Midwest. Abercrombie [...]

Since 1998, two galleries in Chelsea have treated the New York art world to a rare experience: a large, ongoing survey of contemporary painting, staged every 10 years. A piecemeal [...]

The Drawing Center, a small, non-collecting museum in Manhattan's SoHo district, has announced that its new executive director will be the longtime New York curator Laura Hoptman. Ms. Hoptman, 56, [...]

Jenny Saville Through July 20. Gagosian, 522 West 21st Street, Manhattan; 212-741-1717, gagosian.com. What to do with Jenny Saville? This much-lauded British painter became known for skillful, ambitiously scaled paintings [...]

'LIKE LIFE: SCULPTURE, COLOR AND THE BODY (1300 TO NOW)' AT THE MET BREUER Taking a second run at the splashy theme-show extravaganza, the Met Breuer has greater success. This [...]

Byline: ROBERTA SMITH Correction Appended In the 1950s, the artists of the newly formed Gutai group of Japan worked fast and fearlessly, changing styles and mediums at will, staying abreast [...]

In the 1950s, the artists of the newly formed Gutai group of Japan worked fast and fearlessly, changing styles and mediums at will, staying abreast of the latest postwar developments [...]

'ALBERTO SAVINIO' AT THE CENTER FOR ITALIAN MODERN ART The paintings of this Italian polymath have long been overshadowed by the brilliant work of his older brother, Giorgio de Chirico. [...]

Jitish Kallat Through June 16. Sperone Westwater, 257 Bowery, Manhattan ; (212) 999-7337, speronewestwater.com. William Blake saw the world in a grain of sand; the artist Jitish Kallat finds galactic [...]

These days it is not unusual for a New York gallery to have two spaces and even three. Less typical are moments when their exhibitions complement one another, as do [...]

The Congolese polymath Bodys Isek Kingelez (1948-2015) wasn't shy about his greatness. Describing himself as ''a small god,'' and an ''enlightened artist of new horizons,'' he claimed of his work [...]

Byline: ROBERTA SMITH The Congolese polymath Bodys Isek Kingelez (1948-2015) wasn't shy about his greatness. Describing himself as 'a small god,' and an 'enlightened artist of new horizons,' he claimed [...]

American art from the 20th and 21st centuries is broader, and better than previously acknowledged, especially by museums. As these institutions struggle to become more inclusive than before, and give [...]

Al Freeman and Marina Rheingantz Through June 2. Bortolami, 39 Walker Street, Manhattan; 212-727-2050, bortolamigallery.com. These two very different solos -- one featuring appropriated photographs, the other oil paintings -- [...]

Byline: ROBERTA SMITH Correction Appended American art from the 20th and 21st centuries is broader, and better than previously acknowledged, especially by museums. As these institutions struggle to become more [...]

Per Kirkeby, a Danish artist who trained as a geologist before turning to painting quasi-abstract landscapes that were often characterized as Neo-Expressionist, died on May 9 at his home in [...]

Arthur Jafa is back, nearly two years after his indelible New York solo debut at Gavin Brown's enterprise. That show helped introduce the artist, 57, and previously best known as [...]

Byline: ROBERTA SMITH Arthur Jafa is back, nearly two years after his indelible New York solo debut at Gavin Brown's enterprise. That show helped introduce the artist, 57, and previously [...]

Art fairs are in the uncomfortable position of being the bane of the art world's existence and among its primary staffs of life. In the face of this contradiction, Frieze [...]

'DAHN VO: TAKE MY BREATH AWAY' AT THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM Closing on Wednesday, this museum survey is the first for the Vietnam-born Danish artist, who draws his art from his [...]

Chelsea may be the New York art neighborhood that many people love to disdain. It also may be approaching a tipping point, where new apartment towers outnumber galleries. But the [...]

Is the New York art gallery scene thriving or dying? It may be doing both, depending on where you look. Blue-chip galleries are expanding, and a surprising number of international [...]

'OUTLIERS AND AMERICAN VANGUARD ART' AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, WASHINGTON Tracing the interaction of taught and untaught artists over the past century, this exhibition, which closes on May [...]

Once upon a time the Gagosian Gallery produced museum-quality shows at an unmatched rate -- at least once a year. Then it seemed to cede this role to the well-oiled [...]

Markus Brunetti's enormous photographs pack a healthy jolt of wonder, something more likely felt in the 19th century, when the medium was invented. I felt some of it in 2015 [...]

'THE BEAUTIFUL BRAIN: THE DRAWINGS OF SANTIAGO RAMÓN Y CAJAL' AT GREY ART GALLERY The first United States museum exhibition devoted to the scientific illustrations of this Spanish giant of [...]

Eli Leon, a psychologist, writer and collector and self-taught scholar of African-American quilts, who helped bring attention to the field and especially the quilts of Rosie Lee Tompkins, died on [...]

Eli Leon, a psychologist, writer and collector and self-taught scholar of African-American quilts, who helped bring attention to the field and especially the quilts of Rosie Lee Tompkins, died on [...]

The Met Breuer is going to keep doing sprawling, themed spectacles that pander, thrill and provoke until it gets them right. Its second attempt at this broadly appealing exhibition type, [...]

It probably didn't help Grant Wood's artistic development that he became an overnight sensation in October 1930, when his painting ''American Gothic,'' an ode to the Midwestern farming life, went [...]

The work of the Danish-Vietnamese artist Danh Vo operates at the intersection of art, global history and personal diary, that is, his own life as a gay man and as [...]

Byline: ROBERTA SMITH The work of the Danish-Vietnamese artist Danh Vo operates at the intersection of art, global history and personal diary, that is, his own life as a gay [...]

The ADAA Art Show has made a smart move, scheduling its annual occupation of the Park Avenue Armory a week before the March Madness of New York's art fairs. Those [...]

WASHINGTON -- Anyone interested in American modernism should see ''Outliers and American Vanguard Art'' at the National Gallery of Art. Flaws and all, this groundbreaking adventure highlights outstanding, sometimes rarely-seen [...]

'DAVID HOCKNEY' AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART This gorgeous retrospective is a strand of perfectly curated, self-contained galleries. Each concentrates on a specific period and style, from the often [...]

Gianni Politi Through Feb. 14. 56 Henry, 56 Henry Street, Manhattan; 646-858-0800, 56henry.nyc. In ''Paintings From the Old World,'' Gianni Politi's gallery debut in the United States, the Italian artist [...]

'JAPANESE BAMBOO ART: THE ABBEY COLLECTION' AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART This fabulous show, which closes on Sunday, celebrates Diane and Arthur Abbey's gift of some 70 bamboo baskets [...]

The 2018 Outsider Art Fair arrives this weekend at a time when the very concept of outsider art -- work made by self-taught or developmentally impaired artists -- has never [...]

It's not often that you look at an exhibition with the help of the very apparatus that is its subject. But so it is with ''The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings [...]

Byline: ROBERTA SMITH It's not often that you look at an exhibition with the help of the very apparatus that is its subject. But so it is with 'The Beautiful [...]

Kynaston McShine, an audacious museum curator who organized some of the most influential contemporary art exhibitions of the late 20th century, died on Jan. 8 in Manhattan. He was 82. [...]

Kynaston McShine, an audacious museum curator who organized some of the most influential contemporary art exhibitions of the late 20th century, died on Monday in Manhattan. He was 82. His [...]

The small Bronx Museum of the Arts regularly hits above its weight. It is doing so again with ''Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect,'' a streamlined exhibition of the work of this insurrectionary [...]

Byline: ROBERTA SMITH The small Bronx Museum of the Arts regularly hits above its weight. It is doing so again with 'Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect,' a streamlined exhibition of the work [...]

Tim Rollins, an artist and educator whose mural-like paintings inspired by literary classics brought 1980s art stardom to him and his collaborators -- a shifting collective of at-risk South Bronx [...]