Your mug shot. Your profile picture. Your breakfast table. Is anything safe from appropriation artists?

Move over, painting chimps. Today's art-making animals are cutting-edge creators who turn up everywhere from the National Zoo to MoMA.

Using an implement he wielded with his stumps, Matthias Buchinger excelled in calligraphy, ornamentation, and micrography, the practice of making patterns with tiny letters. Ricky Jay’s book and a show at the Met explored the art and life of “The Little Man of Nuremberg.”

In a Brooklyn Museum exhibition of the artist's early paintings, some aspects of her story were conspicuous by their absence.

Sol LeWitt’s minimalist installations for synagogues and Jewish institutions have given the late Conceptual artist an afterlife he’d approve of.

Reality, illusion and the sublime converge in An-My Lê's photo of a Turner painting being restored, recently acquired by the Yale Center for British Art.

Museum exhibitions confront amnesia, restore lost narratives, and consider the legacy of the Middle Passage.

William Powhida and Jade Townsend are back with a satirical drawing of a lurid battleground where artists, posers, critics, dragons, Internet trolls, and Modernist ghosts fight for their lives.

As ’60s activist art enters museums, a new generation is creating an iconography of protest for today.

Pollock collection show at MoMA upends curatorial policy by uniting major paintings with prints and drawings.

A show at the Queens Museum celebrated mischief-making artist Zhang Hongtu, who has built a five-decade career out of skewering icons with deft irreverence.

A new doll is inspired by Adele Bloch-Bauer, Klimt’s famous Austrian Jewish model. It’s one of a new series of collector’s edition dolls dedicated to great works of art.

On the 150th birthday of Manet’s two most scandalous paintings, a show and a conference track the afterlives of the nudes, the dudes, the maid, and the cat.

In the Southwest, Crypto-Judaism is finally coming out of the closet.

Laurie Simmons, Jerry Saltz, Xu Bing, Holly Block, Teresita Fernandez, Elektra KB, and other art insiders took shelf portraits for us

Robin’s profile of Jack Levine, the American Social Realist painter who was an acerbic critic of politicians, the art world and just about every other establishment, republished as a memorial on the occasion of his passing in 2010.

Yinka Shonibare, Carla Fernandez, Jae Jarrell, Nick Cave and other creators turn up in this roundup of fabulous duds in museum shows.

Hank Willis Thomas, Shinique Smith, Kenny Scharf, and others are using the photo-sharing network to disseminate their work—and their fixations.

A channel-changing exhibition about imagination headlines a convergence of art from 88 countries.

With five New York art spaces showing maps, charts, and diagrams, it’s a great moment for flowchart art.