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The trope of the embattled auteur exerting their will is too tempting for filmmakers to ignore. Now that the White House has decreed that all new https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/realestate/trump-brutalist-architecture.html let’s cue up [...]

Byline: Walker Mimms 'Rogues and Scholars,' James Stourton's erudite and authoritative history, doesn't spare the color. ROGUES AND SCHOLARS: A History of the London Art World: 1945-2000, by James Stourton [...]

Forrest Bess Through Jan. 31. Franklin Parrasch Gallery, 19 East 66th Street, Manhattan; 212-246-5360, franklinparrasch.com. Two abstract painters flirted extra closely with Carl Jung's belief that we can gain access [...]

Canvas burns quickly, so when a wildfire spread through Orange County, Calif., this summer, Andrew Tonkovich, a writer and editor, crammed some paintings into the bed of a pickup and [...]

The art critics of The Times select their favorites, from the biography of a 'famously unknown' artist to an ode to the Louvre from 100 poets. Say what you will [...]

In his mug shot, the photographer George Steinmetz doesn't seem especially threatening. It captures some of the inquisitive humanity that Steinmetz, a tall and direct people's person with a John [...]

In his mug shot, the photographer George Steinmetz doesn’t seem especially threatening. It captures some of the inquisitive humanity that Steinmetz, a tall and direct people’s person with a John [...]

Jean Strouse’s brisk, wise “Family Romance” takes on the painter’s relationship to the Wertheimers, a vast Jewish clan he immortalized on canvas. FAMILY ROMANCE: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers, [...]

Byline: Walker Mimms Tamara de Lempicka's first major U.S. survey invokes her as a trailblazing techno-feminist who borrowed freely from art history. But it also buries her erratic second act. [...]

Copycat classicism is here. Literary re-enactments by the photographer Stan Douglas -- and a wave of other remixers -- are creating new types of art around Black history. Which truths [...]

A new photo book pays tribute to the female investors, curators, collectors and more without whom the Museum of Modern Art in New York likely would not exist. The subtitle [...]

At the New York Public Library, two exhibitions add little to a very public writer's mystique. But our critic dived deeper. Among the 20 artifacts at the 42nd Street Public […]

Byline: Walker Mimms As the climate alarm sounds, artists seem to want to instruct us. Two sculptors stray from the crowd with ambiguous, beautiful and frightening ecological works. The environmental [...]

As the climate alarm sounds, artists seem to want to instruct us. Two sculptors stray from the crowd with ambiguous, beautiful and frightening ecological works. The environmental artist and activist [...]

Byline: Walker Mimms In 'Frank Walter: To Capture a Soul,' a scavenger hunt of an exhibition at the Drawing Center in Manhattan, we find an aspect of so-called outsider art [...]

In 'Frank Walter: To Capture a Soul,' a scavenger hunt of an exhibition at the Drawing Center in Manhattan, we find an aspect of so-called outsider art that is not [...]

Christoph Dallach's book explores how Nazism, a postwar German identity crisis and anti-authoritarian youth movements spurred some of the most daring experiments of 1970s music. ''We had to start from [...]

Byline: Walker Mimms Celebrated for her children's books, the illustrator channeled the intensity of childhood perception into lesser-known but striking lithographs. If you plan to catch the tail end of [...]

Christoph Dallach’s book explores how Nazism, a postwar German identity crisis and anti-authoritarian youth movements spurred some of the most daring experiments of 1970s music. “We had to start from [...]

This week in Newly Reviewed, Walker Mimms covers the overlooked artist Ker-Xavier Roussel, Fritz Scholder's paintings and a group show in a modest office-like space. Ker-Xavier Roussel Through Aug. 23. […]

Celebrated for her children's books, the illustrator channeled the intensity of childhood perception into lesser-known but striking lithographs. If you plan to catch the tail end of the Whitney Biennial, […]

https://www.nabilkanso.org/ https://www.joshuaserafin.com/ https://www.delphinefawundu.com/ Nabil Kanso Through Aug. 24. Institute of Arab and Islamic Art, 22 Christopher Street, Manhattan; https://www.instituteaia.org/. How do artists protest war in their work? https://www.nabilkanso.org/ (1940-2019) was [...]

Byline: Walker Mimms In New York's art show of the summer, paint and prose meet in 'The Swimmer,' a psychoanalysis of John Cheever's suburban nightmare of 1964. 'Oh, how bonny [...]

In New York's art show of the summer, paint and prose meet in 'The Swimmer,' a psychoanalysis of John Cheever's suburban nightmare of 1964. 'Oh, how bonny and lush were […]

Notoriously reluctant to give advice, the author offered his views, and meticulous edits, to a lifelong friend: Roger Payne, the marine biologist who introduced the world to whale song. By [...]

Byline: Walker Mimms A fresh crop of apprentice cartoons - now public property - from his pen at The Junior Times may add to our understanding of Guston and his [...]

A fresh crop of apprentice cartoons -- now public property -- from his pen at The Junior Times may add to our understanding of Guston and his art. Before Philip [...]

A steamer trunk worth of clothing and textiles by the French-Ukrainian artist reveals the sartorial origins of abstraction. If Wassily Kandinsky bent the visible world to the whims of his [...]

A steamer trunk worth of clothing and textiles by the French-Ukrainian artist reveals the sartorial origins of abstraction. If Wassily Kandinsky bent the visible world to the whims of his [...]

She pivoted from painting to lighting exhibitions, performance art, graphic design and minimalist music, performed with her husband, the composer La Monte Young. In avant-garde New York, one of the [...]

In several frames of the artist Arthur Jafa’s seminal 2016 video collage of Black America, https://americanart.si.edu/blog/reflections-arthur-jafa-love-death a felled bullrider scoops himself off the dirt. It’s a moment anatomized in rich [...]

Byline: Walker Mimms She is a trailblazer of the architectural sculpture movement, and her diaries rival Frida Kahlo's. Are we ready for the unsettling clarity of Donna Dennis? One of [...]

Byline: Walker Mimms The Cooper Hewitt shows, in mini-scale, the designer's monumental success building metaphors for the mind, from opera to theater to pop. As visual storytelling presses toward new [...]

The Cooper Hewitt shows, in mini-scale, the designer's monumental success building metaphors for the mind, from opera to theater to pop. As visual storytelling presses toward new technological heights, it [...]

Byline: Walker Mimms What happened to fun? In the clinical white of the gallery, art can be forbidding, aggrieved, elite, academic. Shouldn't it also, sometimes, be joyous? The collaborators behind [...]

What happened to fun? In the clinical white of the gallery, art can be forbidding, aggrieved, elite, academic. Shouldn't it also, sometimes, be joyous? The collaborators behind Luna Luna thought [...]