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The article reviews several exhibitions in New York in 2016 including "The Back Door," by artist Martin Creed at the Park Avenue Armory building, the "Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible" at the Met Breuer museum, and "Turner's Whaling Picture" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The article reviews several exhibitions in New York through January 2016 including "Unorthodox" at Jewish Museum, "Ancient Egypt Transformed: The Middle Kingdom" at Metropolitan Museum of Art and "Transmissions: Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America, 1960-1980" at Museum of Modern Art.

The article reviews several exhibitions across New York in November 2015 including the "Lynda Benglis: Water Sources", the "Zanele Muholi: Isibonelo/Evidence" and the "Paintings by George Stubbs from the Yale Center for British Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

The article reviews several art exhibitions in New York as of September 2014 including "Beyond the Supersquare" at the Bronx Museum of the Arts until January 11, 2015, "Mel Bochner: Strong Language," featuring the paintings of Mark Bochner, at the Jewish Museum until September 21, and "The Pre-Raphaelite Legacy" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MoMA) until October 26.

Realism is a shifty concept. What is real for you may be nonexistent for me -- God, for example, or subatomic particles. The landscape of reality varies with time and place, and different versions can vie for dominance in the same hour and space. The Renaissance was such a moment, as the metaphysical reality of Christianity began to give way to that of empirical science and perceptual experience. You can see that happen before your eyes in ''Bellini, Titian and Lotto: North Italian Paintings From the Accademia Carrara, Bergamo,'' a small, philosophically intriguing exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is not offered as a theme show. It is just a selection of 15 paintings, mostly of middling quality, on loan from a museum in Bergamo, Italy, that is under restoration. And the title may be misleading: Only one of the paintings is a Bellini, and the attribution to a young Titian of a weird small landscape illustrating the story of Orpheus and Eurydice remains uncertain. Viewers may connect the dots however they like. For me what is striking is the registration of a fundamental change in what European culture on the threshold of modernity would consider really real. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews several exhibitions in New York City including "Madame Cézanne" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, "The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World" at the Museum of Modern Art, and Annie Leibovitz' "Pilgrimage" at the New-York Historical Society.