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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 [...]

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's new admission policy beginning in March will end pay-as-you-wish for out-of-state visitors, for the first time since 1970 -- and residents of New York State [...]

What good is an art collection if a museum doesn't shake it up once in a while? The Museum of Modern Art has increasingly been acting on this principle. Its [...]

Byline: ROBERTA SMITH What good is an art collection if a museum doesn't shake it up once in a while? The Museum of Modern Art has increasingly been acting on [...]

The winter holidays get a bit frantic, and not just with gift-buying and related rituals. All those art exhibitions you've been meaning to see for months are closing soon. Don't [...]

Ursula Morley Price Through Dec. 23. McKenzie Fine Art, 55 Orchard Street, Manhattan; 212-989-5467, mckenziefineart.com. In her works, the British ceramic artist Ursula Morley Price strikes an exquisite balance between [...]

Holland Cotter Of my favorite art books this year, some are for looking, some for reading, most for both. All are on vital, return-to subjects, which is why I keep [...]

Art rarely thrives in a vacuum. It is by definition polyglot and in flux, buffeted by the movement of art objects, goods and people across borders and among cultures, and [...]

Byline: ROBERTA SMITH Art rarely thrives in a vacuum. It is by definition polyglot and in flux, buffeted by the movement of art objects, goods and people across borders and [...]

Enrico Castellani, an Italian artist who was a prominent member of Europe's postwar avant-garde, died on Dec. 1 at his home in Celleno, Italy, near Rome. He was 87. A [...]

The a rt critics of The New York Times Roberta Smith, Holland Cotter and Jason Farago share their picks for the best art of the year. Roberta Smith 1. BEST [...]

The American Folk Art Museum announced today that its executive director, Anne-Imelda Radice, has informed its board of trustees of her intent to retire early in 2018. Dr. Radice, 69, [...]

The American Folk Art Museum announced today that its executive director, Anne-Imelda Radice, has informed its board of trustees of her intent to retire early in 2018. Dr. Radice, 69, [...]

'SUSAN CIANCIOLO: RUN PRAYER, RUN CAFÐ, RUN LIBRARY' AT BRIDGET DONAHUE Sumptuous airy environments emerge when this artist-designer and sometime tea-room hostess sets her accumulations of small found objects and [...]

Give it up for David Hockney, one of painting's elder statesmen, and for his crystalline retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which proceeds in a string of perfectly curated [...]

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. [...]

Byline: ROBERTA SMITH Give it up for David Hockney, one of painting's elder statesmen, and for his crystalline retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which proceeds in a string [...]

A new self-awareness entered painting toward the end of the 20th century, which initiated an irreverent, sometimes but not always loving interrogation of the medium. Artists of several generations and [...]

'TALKING PICTURES: CAMERA-PHONE CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN ARTISTS' AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART One of the wisest, savviest museum exhibitions of the summer (it closes Dec. 17) may not have much [...]

Byline: ROBERTA SMITH Corrections Appended A new self-awareness entered painting toward the end of the 20th century, which initiated an irreverent, sometimes but not always loving interrogation of the medium. [...]

Sometimes I think Yayoi Kusama might be the greatest artist to come out of the 1960s and one of the few, thanks in part to her long life, still making [...]

The Greek-born Italian artist Alberto Savinio spent most of his life in the shadow of his older brother, Giorgio de Chirico, famed as the pioneer of Surrealist painting. It remains [...]

Linda Nochlin, a celebrated art historian whose feminist approach permanently altered her field, died on Sunday at her home in Manhattan. She was 86. Her family said the cause was [...]

'LOUISE BOURGEOIS: AN UNFOLDING PORTRAIT' AT THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART The artist's frequently handworked prints provide the through line in this compact, vivid survey, on view through Jan. 28. [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDLinda Nochlin, a celebrated art historian whose feminist approach permanently altered her field, died on Sunday at her home in Manhattan. She was 86. Her family said the cause [...]

There's plenty of visual heat to be had in New York's galleries and museums this fall, but nowhere more than at the American Folk Art Museum. The radiance shines forth [...]

Byline: ROBERTA SMITH There's plenty of visual heat to be had in New York's galleries and museums this fall, but nowhere more than at the American Folk Art Museum. The [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDBarack and Michelle Obama don't like to waste an opportunity, in word or action, to make larger points about contemporary life and culture. In that vein, their choices of [...]

Byline: ROBERTA SMITH Barack and Michelle Obama don't like to waste an opportunity, in word or action, to make larger points about contemporary life and culture. In that vein, their [...]

Ruth Asawa Through Oct. 21. David Zwirner, 537 West 20th Street, Manhattan; davidzwirner.com. Filled with some two dozen wire-woven openwork sculptures by Ruth Asawa, the big second-floor gallery at David [...]

Holly Block, the director of the Bronx Museum of the Arts and a longtime cultural force in New York, died on Friday at her home in Manhattan. She was 58. [...]

Holly Block, the director of the Bronx Museum of the Arts and a longtime cultural force in New York, died on Friday at her home in Manhattan. She was 58. [...]

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, lauded for the fabulousness of its exhibitions of Comme des Garçons, China and Alexander McQueen, finally has some healthy competition. After 70 years [...]

'ETTORE SOTTSASS: DESIGN RADICAL' AT THE MET BREUER No surprise here: The first big New York survey of this many-styled Italian design guru's 60-year career has a combative air. You [...]

Byline: ROBERTA SMITH The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, lauded for the fabulousness of its exhibitions of Comme des Garçons, China and Alexander McQueen, finally has some healthy competition. [...]

As an artist and a brand, Louise Bourgeois was a force of nature. She was a prolific if not obsessive maker of art -- sculpture, drawings and especially prints. There [...]

Big thematic exhibitions are almost always by definition flawed propositions. A curator comes up with a concept -- often a single word -- and selects work by different artists that [...]

'FLORINE STETTHEIMER: PAINTING POETRY' AT THE JEWISH MUSEUM This small retrospective, which closes Sept. 24, nonetheless decimates modernism's orderly hierarchies. Mixing Symbolist dreaminess with Post-Impressionist muscle, Stettheimer rendered her family [...]

There are many exciting museum shows to see across the country in coming months. But of particular interest to me will be the one unfolding in real time at the [...]

Like most outstanding artists, Kara Walker is unrelenting. In a press statement for her latest show at Sikkema Jenkins & Co., she wrote in her familiar, mock-serious yet dead-serious tone [...]

'MAIRA KALMAN: THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE' AT JULIE SAUL GALLERY Continuing through Sept. 16, this show reunites all 57 of Ms. Kalman's illustrations for William Strunk Jr. and E. B. [...]

Byline: ROBERTA SMITH Like most outstanding artists, Kara Walker is unrelenting. In a press statement for her latest show at Sikkema Jenkins & Co., she wrote in her familiar, mock-serious [...]

Byline: ROBERTA SMITH There are many exciting museum shows to see across the country in coming months. But of particular interest to me will be the one unfolding in real [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDAround 2002, the artist, illustrator and writer Maira Kalman came across a copy of William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White's ''The Elements of Style'' in a yard sale [...]

Byline: ROBERTA SMITH Correction Appended Around 2002, the artist, illustrator and writer Maira Kalman came across a copy of William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White's 'The Elements of Style' [...]

The name Editta Sherman may not ring a bell, but she was the blithe spirit who flitted through ''Bill Cunningham New York,'' about the New York Times's street-fashion photographer, who [...]

'THE JAZZ AGE: AMERICAN STYLE IN THE 1920S' AT THE COOPER HEWITT, SMITHSONIAN DESIGN MUSEUM While handsomely and mostly filled with Art Deco, this exhibition has banished those words -- [...]

Bamboo contains multitudes. Perhaps nowhere more than in Japan, home to over 600 species of this amazing plant, officially a subfamily of grasses but blessed with a woody stem and [...]

Byline: ROBERTA SMITH Bamboo contains multitudes. Perhaps nowhere more than in Japan, home to over 600 species of this amazing plant, officially a subfamily of grasses but blessed with a [...]

Ettore Sottsass. You can't always live comfortably with his eccentric furniture, but you can't write the history of late 20th-century art without it. On the 100th anniversary of his birth [...]