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CORRECTION APPENDED Milton Rogovin, an optometrist and persecuted leftist who took up photography as a way to champion the underprivileged and went on to become one of America's most dedicated [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED With their quiet simplicity, Robert Ryman's paintings are a welcome contrast to the content overload of much contemporary art, although those who subscribe to the ''my grandchild could [...]

If you are planning an excursion this weekend, you might consider a visit to the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art in New Paltz. It is no exaggeration to say that [...]

With just over a dozen artists, ''State of the Dao,'' at the Lehman College Art Gallery, is smaller than many of the Chinese contemporary art shows that have come to [...]

In the last few decades, quite a few sculptors and installation artists working with materials scavenged from nature have risen to the forefront of the international art world. What distinguishes [...]

The Colombian artist Fernando Botero is back at the Nassau County Museum of Art, where more than 70 of his sketches, drawings and paintings were exhibited five years ago. The [...]

Eero Saarinen was one of the most exciting and prolific architects of the 20th century, and the current show of his work at the Yale University Art Gallery and the [...]

ART exhibitions are flourishing across the country. Here is a selection of the latest offerings: NORTHEAST BOSTON ''Under the Skin: Tattoos in Japanese Prints'' This lush survey of 19th-century Japanese [...]

SITTING in the lounge at Heathrow Airport last month, MoMA's chief curator at large and P.S. 1's director, Klaus Biesenbach, did a quick tour of some artists' studios, logging on [...]

It is a refreshing change to have Tom Molloy, an Irish artist, commenting on America at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. While some of the art in the show is [...]

''Lalla Essaydi: Les Femmes du Maroc,'' an exhibition at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, draws attention to one of the most interesting if puzzling developments in contemporary art: a [...]

Sometimes the shows at the Yale Center for British Art -- always scholarly, with a focus on Britain and its former colonies -- are as fascinating as they are informative. [...]

Alex Katz is one of those artists who have enjoyed tremendous commercial and museum success but whose art historical importance remains an open question. He is not a bad painter, [...]

It is not easy to organize a historical loan exhibition on an extremely limited budget. That is the ambitious task that the Hofstra University Museum set itself with ''Children's Pleasures: [...]

At its most creative and inspired, philanthropy can alter lives, or even a society. That is the message of ''A Force for Change: African American Art and the Julius Rosenwald [...]

Performance art is undergoing a revival in New York. Marina Abramovic, a veteran performance artist, has a retrospective opening at the Museum of Modern Art in March, and Performa, an [...]

Right by the train station in Croton Falls is an old factory that once serviced forklifts and trucks. Today it houses artists' studios and an exhibition space -- not so [...]

If you are interested in images of industry, then you will enjoy ''At the Heart of Progress: Coal, Iron, and Steam since 1750,'' a miscellaneous group of 76 works from [...]

It is easy to be impressed by the Albert Paley retrospective at Grounds for Sculpture, the 35-acre sculpture park and museum on the former site of the New Jersey State [...]

Levittown, the mass-produced suburb built in Nassau County after World War II, is often the first thing that comes to mind when the subject is Long Island architecture. Fair enough; [...]

Once a favorite of newlyweds, Niagara Falls has thrived for decades as a general tourist destination and, more recently, as the setting for several casinos. In the spring and summer [...]

As the Hudson Valley has celebrated the 400th anniversary of its discovery by Henry Hudson in a Dutch expedition, art exhibitions focusing on contemporary Dutch culture have been especially rich. [...]

American visitors to ''Four Perspectives Through the Lens: Soviet Art Photography in the 1970s-1980s,'' an exhibition at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, may be surprised to discover that photography [...]

The Nassau County Museum of Art has its own building, lovely grounds and a pretty good collection, but like many suburban arts institutions, it struggles to find money for programming. [...]

Until recently, the contemporary art world politely ignored the encroachment into artists' studios of techniques more commonly associated with traditional practical and domestic arts. ''Knitted, Knotted, Netted'' at the Hunterdon [...]

The pleasures and challenges of working with glass are explored in ''See Through,'' the current group exhibition at the Islip Art Museum, organized by Karen Shaw. But the show also [...]

Wineke Gartz's exhibition at the Westchester Arts Council's Arts Exchange Gallery is among the last of the events organized to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's first voyage to [...]

So great are the expectations surrounding exhibitions of works from the Metropolitan Museum of Art that it is hard not to be slightly disappointed with the small show of Hudson [...]

The exhibition ''Life Objects: Rites of Passage in African Art'' at the Princeton University Art Museum presents 23 outstanding works from the museum's own fine collection, the Smithsonian Institution's National [...]

It is rare for a show of outdoor sculpture to be both visually beguiling and intellectually stimulating. But 'Seeing Around,' the first major museum show of the work of Edward […]