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Chuck Close, who rose to prominence in the 1970s and '80s with colossal Photorealist portraits of himself, family members and fellow artists, but who late in his career faced accusations [...]

Robert Morris, one of the most controversial American sculptors of the post-World War II era as a founder of Minimalism, a style of radical simplification that emerged in the 1960s [...]

'NAN GOLDIN: THE BALLAD OF SEXUAL DEPENDENCY' AT THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART More than 33 years ago, Nan Goldin began taking the photographs that would make up the first [...]

James Rosenquist, who helped define Pop Art in its 1960s heyday with his boldly scaled painted montages of commercial imagery, died on Friday in New York City. He was 83 [...]

James Rosenquist, who helped define Pop Art in its 1960s heyday with his boldly scaled painted montages of commercial imagery, died on Friday in New York City. He was 83 [...]

'MAX BECKMANN IN NEW YORK' AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART In the last two years of his life, the great German Expressionist Max Beckmann lived in New York. This [...]

During the years of the Weimar Republic (1919-33), the Expressionist painter Max Beckmann was one of Germany's most celebrated living artists. Then the Nazis designated him a degenerate artist and [...]

Among the most controversial issues roiling fin-de-siècle Vienna was ''Die Frauenfrage,'' or ''the woman question.'' As they were doing in many other cities and nations of Europe and North America, [...]

McDermott & McGough 'Velvet Rage, Flaming Youth and the Gift of Desperation' James Fuentes 55 Delancey Street Through Oct. 23 In the East Village in the 1980s, the artists David [...]

Gladstone Gallery515 West 24th Street, ChelseaThrough Oct. 22 Twenty-five years ago, at the tender age of 24, Matthew Barney had one of the most sensational New York gallery solo debuts [...]

Some artists may be at odds with their own talents and wish they could be something more than they are. A spectacular example of such a conflicted creative sensibility is [...]

'inHarlem' 'Kevin Beasley, Simone Leigh, Kori Newkirk and Rudy Shepherd' Marcus Garvey Park, Morningside Park, St. Nicholas Park and Jackie Robinson Park Through July 25 Public art is a difficult [...]

Andrea Rosen Gallery 525 West 24th Street, Chelsea Through Oct. 8 Since the 1990s, Andrea Zittel has been creating inventive and subtly satirical art about modern design and lifestyle in [...]

Paul Outerbridge (1896-1958) was a master of photographic desire, a shape-shifting orchestrator of Apollonian light and Dionysian shadow. His strange career is well served by a beautiful, museum-caliber retrospective at [...]

Georges Hugnet 'Huit jours Trbaumec' Ubu Gallery 416 East 59th Street, Manhattan Through Sept. 30 In 1900, two French businessmen, the brothers Andr and Ðdouard Michelin, published a guide to [...]

Jessica Stockholder Mitchell-Innes & Nash 534 West 26th Street, Chelsea Through Oct. 1 Jessica Stockholder's colorful assemblages of diverse store-bought and found objects call to mind a term from neuroscience, [...]

In 2013, Doug Aitken, the internationally acclaimed creator of video and sound installations, produced ''Station to Station,'' a collaboration with multitudes of other well-known artists, musicians and performers. Called ''a [...]

A cartoon by the brilliant, widely beloved visual humorist Roz Chast has the title ''Einsteins on the Beach'' drawn above a family of three camped out on the shore: Dad, [...]

PHILADELPHIA -- After perusing ''Embracing the Contemporary: The Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Collection'' at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a big exhibition featuring works by many famous artists of [...]

Michael Werner4 East 77th StreetManhattanThrough next Friday Along with Anselm Kiefer and Georg Baselitz among others, A. R. Penck rode the wave of German Neo-Expressionism to international prominence in the [...]

For contemporary art in America, the 1980s was an exciting if not lovable decade. Arguably it was second only to the 1960s for ambitious innovations of style and thought. Consider [...]

Simuvac Projects 99 Norman Avenue Greenpoint, BrooklynThrough Sept. 4 Ivy Haldeman's funny and oddly enchanting paintings at Simuvac Projects in Greenpoint show eroticized, anthropomorphic hot dogs in pillowy buns. Depicted [...]

Sargent's Daughters 179 East Broadway Lower East Side Through Aug. 26 Brandi Twilley's dark, emotionally stirring paintings in ''The Living Room'' at Sargent's Daughters depict a messy room in the [...]

Ronald Lockett, whose emotionally raw and politically trenchant paintings and assemblages are featured in ''Fever Within: The Art of Ronald Lockett'' at the American Folk Art Museum, did not have [...]

City Hall Park Broadway and Chambers Street Through Sept. 29 City Hall Park, one of Manhattan's loveliest small oases, was in an alarmingly unkempt state when I visited to see [...]

Alma Thomas, whose joyful abstract paintings are the subject of an undersized but important and inspiring exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem, had one of the great, late-blooming careers [...]

Since his start as a special effects artist in Mexico, Guillermo del Toro has directed some of the 21st century's most vivid fantasy films, including ''Hellboy'' (2004), ''Pan's Labyrinth'' (2006) [...]

''Mirror Cells,'' a presentation of sculptural works by five artists at the Whitney Museum of American Art, is a lively and engaging affair underpinned by an intriguing but insufficiently developed [...]

'Women Look at Men' Cheim & Read 547 West 25th Street, Chelsea Through Sept. 2 What do women see in men? ''The Female Gaze, Part Two: Women Look at Men'' [...]

Luxembourg & Dayan 64 East 77th Street, Manhattan Through Sept. 17 This sparely theatrical and uncommonly evocative exhibition consists of three sculptures and a video. At one end of the [...]

There are at least two good things about the seasonal efflorescence of outdoor art in this city. One is that those who go looking for it may find their ways [...]

Thirty-three years ago, Nan Goldin began taking the photographs that would make up the first iterations of her astounding, autobiographical slide show, ''The Ballad of Sexual Dependency.'' Named after a [...]

One of the most naturally gifted painters in the history of Western art, Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) has been beloved for his bucolic, operatic scenes of Rococo frivolity and elegant hedonism [...]

'Ess Envy' Nicelle Beauchene 327 Broome Street Lower East Side Through Aug. 12 In her magnetic small paintings at Nicelle Beauchene, the Chicago artist Alice Tippit slyly juggles dualities of [...]

Marianne Boesky509 and 507 West 24th Street, ChelseaThrough Aug. 12 ''I Talk With the Spirits,'' an exceptionally resonant show organized by the artist and writer Chris Wiley at Marianne Boesky, [...]

From his Minimalist earthworks created in remote places in the 1960s to Pop-Surrealist public sculptures for urban settings in the 1990s and 2000s, Dennis Oppenheim was dedicated to the proposition [...]

In Paris in the early 1780s, Franz Anton Mesmer was attracting attention for his showy demonstrations of ''mesmerism,'' or what would later be called hypnotism. King Louis XVI appointed a [...]

From around 1770 to 1870, the go-to place for ambitious European and American artists and writers was Rome. What drew them is the subject of ''City of the Soul: Rome [...]

Although not well known today, Hubert Robert was one of the most popular painters of 18th-century France. Renowned for landscapes in which ancient monuments and modern buildings were arranged in [...]

African masks had an enormous influence on the development of Modern art, as luminaries like Picasso, Matisse and Giacometti appropriated and interpreted their startling forms and materials. But what about [...]

A conceptually engaging and mystifying exhibition of works by Lito S. Freeman and Benot Maire at Room East consists of a film and sculptures by Mr. Maire, who lives in [...]

A small white plaster object in Dan Burkhart's mind-bending exhibition at Mitchell Algus is emblematic of his idiosyncratic ways with sculpture and painting. Made in 2011, the object is an [...]

Art and life are never entirely separate, but different artists lean more toward one than the other for inspiration. For the photographer Danny Lyon, the world of live humans has [...]

Working with spontaneous panache, the Chicago artist Judy Ledgerwood paints expansive, boldly colorful grid-based abstractions. An infectious exuberance animates her new canvases in an exhilarating exhibition at Tracy Williams on [...]

A man lies in bed staring at the ceiling next to his sleeping partner in a graphite drawing titled ''4 AM'' by Matt Bollinger. What's keeping him awake is suggested [...]

Empires rise and fall. Some, like the ancient Egyptians', last thousands of years and bequeath to posterity tremendous monuments. Others subsist for just a few generations, leaving barely a trace [...]

During the past three decades, the sculptor Meg Webster has been blending Land Art, Minimalism and hermetic symbolism. Ms. Webster's evocative new installation of three distinct pieces in Paula Cooper's [...]

Among the most revered works by the great British painter Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775--1851) are those representing the world dissolved by light, steam, fog, smoke, rain, wind and snow. [...]

Back in the late 1950s, when ambitious painters were obliged to produce big, bold abstractions, Lucas Samaras took up pastel, a fragile, intimate medium that had not given rise to [...]

During his celebrated career as a ceramic sculptor, Ken Price (1935--2012) maintained a sideline of making wonderfully imaginative and funny drawings and small paintings. Many of his works in ''Drawings,'' [...]