At the Met, a 1,000-year journey that begins at the birth of realism and, roughly speaking, the landscape tradition’s genesis as an independent subject.
An explication-by-artifact exhibition traces the influence of the philosophy of Nicolai Federov on idealistic early modern Russian artists.
Tom Joyce’s monumental works are a love letter to abstract shape, paying homage to forebears dating back to Brancusi.
An exhibition enhances our understanding of the well-known but problematic autodidact by showing her alongside her ‘schooled’ contemporaries.
A focused exhibition surveys the artist’s mastery as illustrator, painter and author, capping it all off with his famous bronzes.
A new museum celebrates the work and life of sculptor Camille Claudel, who was long stuck in the shadow of her mentor and lover, Rodin.
At the Met Fifth Avenue, curators try to make sense of the hydra-headed world of mobile-phone art.
The Guggenheim re-creates the essence of the short-lived exhibition series from the height of the Symbolist moment.
Dana Schutz’s work at the Whitney Biennial drew protests; a new show reveals her influences and stylistic singularity
An exhibition focused on a colossal depiction of Old and New Testament scenes reveals how the European Baroque influenced colonial Mexican art.
At a time of cultural tumult, painting was reconceived as a candidate for left-wing reinvigoration.
There was more to Sottsass than his signature red Valentine Portable Typewriter thanks to a lifetime of world travel in search of raw inspiration.
This summer, two concurrent exhibitions at the Clark Art Institute offer a glimpse into a restless innovator’s responses to different materials, approaches and methods.
The Harvard Art Museums explore the classical Persian works collected over a few years by this expert in Italian Renaissance art.
A small show leads us on an ancient hunt for the gods walking among us.
One of the co-founders of Magnum Photo, Chim populated his photos with memorable faces.
Though Richard Gerstl lived to be only 25 years old, his unconventional oeuvre is innovative and mature.
Though Andrew Wyeth has long been dismissed as a mere regional nostalgist, an exhibition argues for his larger importance.
Bill Viola’s work melds a cutting-edge aesthetic with major themes of Western art.
The gallery’s annual summer pavilion was designed by Francis Kéré and echoes his roots in Burkina Faso.
The long-dismissed genre of Chinese bapo painting, in which artists portrayed objects hyper-realistically, gets its debut examination at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
An exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago reveals the artist’s extraordinary range, how he used simple forms and materials to create highly sophisticated work.
An exhibition at the Ashmolean reveals how Raphael’s artistic genius transcended the medium of paint.
A focused exhibition at the Clark Art Institute serves as a remarkable introduction to the breadth of Picasso’s creative influences and inspirations.
The Hirshhorn Museum teams up with the Phillips Collection in Washington to present an underknown German painter’s first American survey