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With the spirited, sense-surround show called ''Edges of Ailey'' at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New York art season gets off to an exuberant, enveloping, though puzzling start. [...]

Sublime Sienese art at the Met, Pan-African art throughout Chicago, a 200th anniversary at the Brooklyn Museum: These extravaganzas are not to be missed. Several of the art events I'm [...]

Nearly lost, Mary Sully's discovered drawings riff on Modernist geometries and Dakota Sioux beadwork and quilting. Our critic calls it 'symphonically bicultural.' The Dakota Sioux artist who called herself Mary […]

Nearly lost, Mary Sully’s discovered drawings riff on Modernist geometries and Dakota Sioux beadwork and quilting. Our critic calls it “symphonically bicultural.” The Dakota Sioux artist who called herself Mary [...]

Pieces add up to an archive of a life lived deeply in Lyle Ashton Harris’s compelling survey at the Queens Museum. If you’re a habitual saver, not to say hoarder, [...]

Pieces add up to an archive of a life lived deeply in Lyle Ashton Harris's compelling survey at the Queens Museum. If you're a habitual saver, not to say hoarder, [...]

In a New York art world fueled by a clamorous quest for new talent, it can be a refreshment to seek out exhibitions of artists with long, continuing and startlingly [...]

The documentary photographer honors those who turn their energies to a social good. And our critic says this artist does the same. On an August night in 2017, a mob [...]

The Shed welcomes an international survey of painting, textiles and collage to its galleries. Our critic picks his 23 favorite booths. ''Money is no object,'' states a sly little text [...]

Byline: Holland Cotter Petrit Halilaj of Kosovo began drawing as a refugee child in the Balkans during a violent decade and invented a calligraphic world of memory. When this old [...]

The Shed welcomes an international survey of painting, textiles and collage to its galleries. Our critic picks his 23 favorite booths. “Money is no object,” states a sly little text [...]

Petrit Halilaj of Kosovo began drawing as a refugee child in the Balkans during a violent decade and invented a calligraphic world of memory. When this old world starts getting [...]

His most famous work -- collages of Vietnam War photographs, popular film stills and Western imagery -- focused on a history of his homeland that he feared was being lost. [...]

Ringgold's landmark career was long ignored by the art establishment. But she kept going, mixing the personal and political, and a late surge of attention rightly put her smack in [...]

Ringgold’s landmark career was long ignored by the art establishment. But she kept going, mixing the personal and political, and a late surge of attention rightly put her smack in [...]

The Rubin will be ''reimagined'' as a global museum, but our critic says its charismatic presence will be only a troubling memory. A brick-and-mortar presence can be, often is, a [...]

The Rubin will be “reimagined” as a global museum, but our critic says its charismatic presence will be only a troubling memory. A brick-and-mortar presence can be, often is, a [...]

I'm not a humanist, I'm a creaturist. Have been since childhood. The pyramidal view of the world that I grew up with -- Man as the crown of creation, with [...]

I’m not a humanist, I’m a creaturist. Have been since childhood. The pyramidal view of the world that I grew up with — Man as the crown of creation, with [...]

‘And Ever an Edge: Studio Museum Artists in Residence 2022—23’ Through April 8. MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Queens; (718) 784-2086, http://momaps1.org/. In 1968, the Studio Museum in Harlem initiated [...]

Byline: Holland Cotter Notoriously, in the winter of 1969 the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened its first exhibition devoted to African American culture, but with a show devoid of art. [...]

Notoriously, in the winter of 1969 the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened its first exhibition devoted to African American culture, but with a show devoid of art. Called ''Harlem on [...]

Byline: Holland Cotter At the Swiss Institute, a Pulitzer-Prize winner makes art warmed - socially and spiritually - by hope. A single work of art can get into your system [...]

At the Swiss Institute, a Pulitzer-Prize winner makes art warmed -- socially and spiritually -- by hope. A single work of art can get into your system and stay there. [...]

Newly Reviewed John Knight Through March 2. Greene Naftali, 508 West 26th Street, Ground Floor, Manhattan; 212-463-7770, https://greenenaftaligallery.com/. The conceptual artist John Knight delights in a revelatory style of institutional [...]

''Mad Max'' gets a prequel, ''The Wiz'' returns to Broadway and Larry David gets another crack at a series finale. The Met Looks to Right a Historic Wrong Early in [...]

The art critics of The Times select their favorites, from Botticelli to Vermeer, Lucy Lippard's memoir, and Wade Guyton's intelligent rereading of Manet. Have art books, will travel. And this [...]

The art critics of The Times select their favorites, from Botticelli to Vermeer, Lucy Lippard’s memoir, and Wade Guyton’s intelligent rereading of Manet. Have art books, will travel. And this [...]

In addition to its impressionist matchup ''Manet/Degas,'' the Met unveiled Lauren Halsey's spectacular new rooftop installation. Our critics weigh in on this year's most thrilling shows. Invigorating, Surprising, Sometimes Even [...]

In addition to its impressionist matchup “Manet/Degas,” the Met unveiled Lauren Halsey’s spectacular new rooftop installation. Our critics weigh in on this year’s most thrilling shows. Invigorating, Surprising, Sometimes Even [...]

The London-based designer's Artist's Choice exhibition evokes the styles, forms and sounds of the African diaspora. Every few years the Museum of Modern Art asks an artist to sift through [...]

The London-based designer’s Artist’s Choice exhibition evokes the styles, forms and sounds of the African diaspora. Every few years the Museum of Modern Art asks an artist to sift through [...]

Byline: Holland Cotter North Africa's influences radiated throughout Byzantium, helping to create a Golden Age. These objects are high on the beauty and rarity scale. We like to keep history [...]

North Africa's influences radiated throughout Byzantium, helping to create a Golden Age. These objects are high on the beauty and rarity scale. We like to keep history as we've learned [...]

The Met Museum offers a treasure chest of North Africa’s influences on the golden age of Medieval art. On the beauty and rarity scale, it’s way up there. We like [...]

At MoMA, her images of Vietnam, the American South and the California desert show the vanishing line between boot camp and theater, fiction and truth. They are tour-de-force beautiful. The [...]

At MoMA, her images of Vietnam, the American South and the California desert show the vanishing line between boot camp and theater, fiction and truth. They are tour-de-force beautiful. The [...]

Newly Reviewed ‘Edward Hopper as Puritan’ Through Feb. 17. Craig Starr Gallery, 5 East 73rd Street, Manhattan, 212-570-1739, http://www.craigstarr.com/ “http://www.craigstarr.com/exhibitions/edward-hopper-as-puritan#tab:slideshow” is a compact exhibition devoted to a world-famous American painter [...]

A solo show takes on the legacy of the painter, folk musicologist, filmmaker, obsessive collector and underground legend. It also hints at what has been lost. ''Far-out'' is an accurate, [...]

A solo show takes on the legacy of the painter, folk musicologist, filmmaker, obsessive collector and underground legend. It also hints at what has been lost. “Far-out” is an accurate, [...]

Byline: Holland Cotter The Met's galleries for 19th- and early-20th-century European paintings and sculpture are among the museum's buzziest places. Packed, always. Why? Because we like what we know. Here, [...]

The Met's galleries for 19th- and early-20th-century European paintings and sculpture are among the museum's buzziest places. Packed, always. Why? Because we like what we know. Here, we're in a [...]

The Met’s galleries for 19th- and early-20th-century European paintings and sculpture are among the museum’s buzziest places. Packed, always. Why? Because we like what we know. Here, we’re in a [...]

Solo shows also abound, from Charles Gaines to Harry Smith, while the women of Land Art and Fluxus keep rocking in major exhibitions. Big, globe-leaping historical art shows are still [...]

Byline: Holland Cotter The Met has gathered a stunning display of ancient Buddhist art - rare loans including dozens of objects that have never been exhibited outside of India. At [...]

The Met has gathered a stunning display of ancient Buddhist art -- rare loans including dozens of objects that have never been exhibited outside of India. At the press opening [...]