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By RANDY KENNEDY
Perhaps not since John F. Kennedy has a presidency so fanned the flames of painterly ardor among artists.
Two big history-writing and history-inventing exhibitions look at the new and the newer.
Perhaps not since John F. Kennedy has a presidency so fanned the flames of painterly ardor among artists.
Sebastião Salgado sets out to record undeveloped pockets of the planet.
“Séraphine” tells the story of a solitary housemaid who transcended class taboos to find her art.
“Star Trek: The Exhibition,” at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, includes costumes and replicas of props drawn from various installments of the space saga.
“Whole in the Wall,” in a multistory studio space on Manhattan’s far West Side, is an exhibition of American and European street art.
Work resumed this week on Beekman Tower, which will be the architect Frank Gehry’s first skyscraper and the tallest residential building in New York City.
The photographer Camilo José Vergara has documented the ever-evolving city with an attitude of studied neutrality.
On Tuesday, Christie’s will auction fragments of the former Chicago Stock Exchange building, which was known for its ironwork and stained-glass windows.
Two concurrent exhibitions of works by filmmaker Yang Fudong afford a supremely stylish and at times frustratingly narrow glimpse into the collective soul of modern China.
Art-world and traditional celebrities overlap, as in the nightclub, in the latest exhibition at Richard L. Feigen & Company.
The public on Tuesday got its first peek at some of the art that will fill the Louvre Abu Dhabi.
A day after a stretch of Broadway between 42nd and 47th Streets was closed to cars, the soul of Times Square remained intact.
Only 31 pictures are on view in this splendid show at the National Gallery of Art. But because each is so absorbing to study, the exhibition seems bigger.
Mr. Maloof’s simple, elegant wooden furniture, which he designed and made by hand, made him a central figure in the postwar American crafts movement.
A debate over whether Michelangelo was the artist who made a wooden sculpture depicting Jesus on the cross continues to enmesh the Italian art world, according to a report by BBC News.
A Minimalist 1950s oil-on-masonite painting, “Cats and Birds,” by the celebrated Chinese artist Sanyu fetched a record $5.4 million at Christie’s Hong Kong auction, Reuters reported.
Recently released letters from soldiers to Donna Reed, the actress and archetypal sweetheart of the 1940s, offer a candid glimpse of a vanished era.
Several stained glass windows have been refurbished and are returning, piece by piece, to St. Thomas Church in Manhattan.
The art editor for the magazine said the cover “doesn’t feel like something that was done digitally; quite the opposite.”
Mrs. Deutschman, who gave Gordon Parks his first art-gallery show, had a five-decade-long career as a curator and gallery director.
A look at how Robert Edmond Jones, one of the most influential stage designers of the 20th century, came up with the set for Arnold Schoenberg’s “Die Glückliche Hand.”
A harrowing account of a Doctors Without Borders mission to Afghanistan; part photojournalism, part graphic memoir.
A half-century of artmaking by Faith Ringgold is on display at Rutgers University.
A collector puts 94 works of modern and contemporary art on view in a new Greenwich gallery.
An exhibition at the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia explores the role of sailors within tattoo culture.
The Metropolitan Museum’s newly reopened American galleries include 20 generously appointed period rooms and a full-fledged sculpture garden.
More than that of any other artist who emerged at the end of World War II, Francis Bacon’s work, now on view at the Met, tells us about the strengths and weaknesses of the moment.
Aernout Mik’s videos as seen at the Museum of Modern Art, which seem to document chaotic situations involving scores of people, are by turns mesmerizing, tantalizing and frustrating.
In the best of John Wood’s work, impure photography becomes pure poetry.
At the UBS Art Gallery in Midtown, a show that celebrates the history of women in art.
Mr. Erickson was a Canadian Modernist architect who established an international reputation for designing innovative complexes and buildings.
Michelle Obama visited New York to promote the arts, at the American Ballet Theater and the American wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Mr. Stein created the mural of a primordial man and woman bursting from a kaleidoscopic background that is on the back wall of the famous Greenwich Village jazz club.
Claes Oldenburg reflects on his art at the first show he’s had since the death of his wife.
A one-work exhibition by the Dutch artist Folkert de Jong conveys his talent and historical consciousness.
The photographer Richard Perry scours the five boroughs for the Made in New York label.
A look at Robert Edmond Jones’s design for the opera “Die Glückliche Hand” (“The Hand of Fate”).
An exhibition at the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia explores the role of sailors within tattoo culture.
Additional images of the newly renovated American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Brera Gallery in Milan is celebrating its 200th anniversary with a series of special exhibitions.
Alexander Conner is a interdisciplinary artist continuing to make his art despite living on $12,000 a year.
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