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A show at the American Folk Art Museum spotlights a Catalan doctor's revolutionary contributions to 20th-century psychiatry and their connections with modern art and Art Brut. A black-and-white snapshot from [...] more...

In 1974, Florence Ludins-Katz and Elias Katz -- she an artist, he a psychologist -- turned the garage of their Berkeley home into an art studio for adults with developmental [...]

A history of the disease's treatment, from gory past techniques to promising advances, is on show at the Science Museum in London. LONDON -- With so many lives affected by [...]

Twelve years after a powerful earthquake devastated L'Aquila, in central Italy, the building's inauguration is a sign of recovery. But there is still work to do. L'AQUILA, Italy -- On [...]

Thornton Dial's ''Flying Tiger,'' Thomas Eggerer's protest painting, Harriet Korman's brilliant canvases, Sheida Soleimani's portraits of Iranian-U.S. relations, and Etel Adnan's tapestries. Thornton Dial Through Dec. 20. David Lewis Gallery, [...] more...

''We Do Not Dream Alone,'' the first Asia Society Triennial of contemporary art, is in search of a reason for being. You could find reasons for both enthusiasm and skepticism [...]

El Museo del Barrio celebrates its own electric history, and present, in a show about the Puerto Rican workshop Taller Boricua. The marketing of modern and contemporary art from Latin [...]

A major European show of work made during coronavirus confinement deals with boredom, doubt and isolation. BREGENZ, Austria -- A tuba sitting on a rolling upholstered chair moves through a [...]

Galleries and museums are getting creative about presenting work online during the coronavirus crisis. Here are two shows worth viewing virtually. 'Down the Rabbit Hole: JB in JT' Ongoing. O-Town [...] more...

As the art world mulls whether a return to ''normalcy'' should be its goal, publishers mine the archives of artists who found their own counterpaths. For much of the culture [...]

Galleries and museums are getting creative about presenting work online during the coronavirus crisis. Here are two shows worth viewing virtually. Emily Roz Through July 5. Front Room, frontroomLES.com. What [...] more...

Galleries and museums are getting creative about presenting work online during the coronavirus crisis. Here are some shows worth viewing virtually. 'How Can We Think of Art at a Time [...]

An exhibit in Kabul, Afghanistan, celebrates the achievements of ancient and modern women from Afghanistan and the region amid fears of a Taliban return to power. KABUL, Afghanistan -- Inside [...]

Spring/Break doesn't feel like a fair so much as a crowded, exhilarating, madcap art extravaganza. Volta offers playful abstraction. All art fairs aren't the same, but they can have a [...]

I wonder if it even occurs to young artists in the globalist, pluralist present to try to stake out a spot in art history by changing the way history goes. [...]

Chirlane McCray's exhibition reflects an agenda of equity and inclusion. With two years left in Mayor Bill de Blasio's term, it will be some time before the city's first family [...]

A new exhibition in San Francisco makes art out of the Patagonia vest, the former prime minister of England and ... Salesforce? The death knell of the Patagonia vest, at [...]

Anni Albers, Ruth Asawa, Lola Álvarez Bravo, Sheila Hicks, Clara Porset and Cynthia Sargent came for inspiration, and stayed. CHICAGO -- They lived or worked in Mexico from the 1930s [...]

The hardy noncommercial gallery, founded in 1972, has put down roots in a cast-iron building in TriBeCa. In the mid-1970s, the pioneering art historian and activist Douglas Crimp identified a [...]

BALTIMORE -- Few artists have had more museum exposure in the past couple of years than Mickalene Thomas, a prolific maker in several media. In 2018 alone, her name was [...]

But is there such a thing as too much attention for the Japanese artist who once struggled to get noticed? Is the art world cashing in? Amid the polka dots, [...]

PHILADELPHIA -- PHILADELPHIA -- At first glance, the placid seascape might blend in with the paintings around it, were it not for the tarlike substance clinging to the panel. The [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDOne of the plainest, yet also most poignant items at the Chrysler Museum of Art's exhibition highlighting Thomas Jefferson as an architect is a worn, reddish-brown brick with a [...] more...

FAY VICTOR The avant-garde jazz vocalist performs within mixed-media sound sculptures by Jason Moran. 2 and 4 p.m. at the Whitney Museum of American Art. 212-570-3600, whitney.org. 'MANON' Lisette Oropesa [...] more...

KARLSRUHE, Germany -- Many of the artworks at Z.K.M. are not so much viewed as braved. One installation on show at the interdisciplinary center for arts and technology is designed [...]

LONDON -- The Queen Victoria Memorial, centerpiece of the plaza that fronts Buckingham Palace, is possibly the most bombastic of this city's monuments to British grandeur. Beside Victoria, queen and [...] more...

MARGATE, England -- Women's hosiery isn't something you'd necessarily expect to find hanging in an art gallery. Nor would you usually think of tights as thought-provoking. But ''Gossamer,'' an exhibition [...] more...

BELGRADE, Serbia -- It was looking doubtful whether Marina Abramovic would manage to eat lunch. She had barely taken her seat in the restaurant before being interrupted by an emotional [...]

This autumn the excavation, reconstitution and globalization of 20th-century modernism continues apace. And that's not just because the new, improved Museum of Modern Art is reopening next month, although let's [...] more...

Art museums are increasingly under an ethical searchlight. Recently, sources of patronage have been protested, leading one Whitney Museum of American Art donor and trustee, whose wealth comes from the [...] more...

CORRECTION APPENDEDMost art fairs involve a frenzy of art handling: packaging, shipping and unloading, followed by careful arrangement. But to prep for a new art expo in Chicago, galleries can [...] more...

BRUSSELS -- The man in the respirator mask sits in the window, impassive on his chair, breathing as evenly as he can into the aluminum foil balloon he cradles on [...]

'2019 WHITNEY BIENNIAL' AT THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART (Through Sept. 22) Given the political tensions over the past two years, you might have expected that this year's biennial [...]

The daughter of Los Angeles-based artists, the fashion designer Rosetta Getty bought her first artwork, a Robert Motherwell painting, with her earnings as a teenage model. Today, her collection includes [...] more...

PUNKS, POETS & VALLEY GIRLS: WOMEN FILMMAKERS IN 1980S AMERICA AT BAM ROSE CINEMAS (Through Aug. 20) This retrospective catalogs the triumphs of female directors in the 1980s. After the [...]

'TOO FAST TO LIVE, TOO YOUNG TO DIE: PUNK GRAPHICS, 1976-1986' AT THE MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN (Through Aug. 18) Many of the objects in this exhibition were first [...]

Our guide to film series and special screenings happening this weekend and in the week ahead. All our movie reviews are at nytimes.com/reviews/movies. 'APOCALYPSE NOW: FINAL CUT' at various theaters [...] more...

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Poor Pierre-Auguste Renoir. On the centennial of his death, his achievements are still something art historians, feminists, artists and critics argue about. His work has not settled [...] more...

'ARTISTS RESPOND: AMERICAN ART AND THE VIETNAM WAR, 1965-1975' AT SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM IN WASHINGTON (Through Aug. 18) Everything in ''Artists Respond,'' a big, inspiriting blast of a historical [...] more...

PARIS -- It's always wise to doubt those who praise an art exhibition as ''groundbreaking'': a promise of false dawns, a cliché best left to the marketing teams. But at [...]

Joseph Elmer Yoakum Through July 26. Venus Over Manhattan, 980 Madison Avenue, Manhattan; 212-980-0700, venusovermanhattan.com. The visionary landscapist Joseph Elmer Yoakum (1888-1972) has been categorized as an outsider, self-taught or [...] more...

The fine arts season may be winding down, but that doesn't mean the art-going options are drying up. After fanning out across the city, the art critics for The New [...]

The cast of the original ''Star Trek'' television series is the classic example of science fiction's myopia. A mostly male, mostly white crew on an interstellar exploration vessel seems to [...]

Food and eating figure into some of the whimsical interactive works by the American artist Mark Dion that now dot the Storm King Art Center's more than 500 acres and [...]

Craig F. Starr GALLERY Robert Rauschenberg NASA invited the artist Robert Rauschenberg to Cape Kennedy, Fla., for the launch of Apollo 11, the first manned spaceflight to the moon, in [...]

BERLIN -- In his diary, Christopher Isherwood once wrote some advice he gave to a friend who was having romantic trouble: ''Don't try to make the relationship exclusive. Try to [...]

I stopped visiting MoMA's permanent collection years ago. In my early days in New York City, when I was just starting to write about art, it had been a refuge, [...]

Before MoMA shuts down next week to reboot for its expansion, you can still catch ''The Value of Good Design.'' I joined a crowd the other day, toting up an [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- The large, brightly colored canvases sparkled beside the white walls of the Gagosian Gallery downtown. Larry Gagosian, the art world's megadealer, stood toward the back of the [...] more...

VENICE -- When the yachts of billionaire collectors sail into the city and the vaporettos are full of hurried, multilingual aesthetes in head-to-toe black, it can mean only one thing: [...]