MacArthur-winning painter Jordan Casteel '14MFA talks about her portraits.

The hermetic artist opens a provocative show at New York’s New Museum.

Jimmie Durham, Native American identity, federal legislation, and a lot of controversy

A new museum on an island on the Bolivian side of Lake Titicaca raises tantalizing questions about who buried a cache of thousand-year-old ceramics there—and why.

Confronted with urgent demographic realities, art-museum directors are drawing on game theory, interactive technology, and a host of other new strategies to help people feel welcome and engaged

Venerable Conceptual artist withdraws from 'Radical Presence' at Grey Art Gallery, asserting it marginalizes African American artists.

A show at David Zwirner explored links between Ad Reinhardt's identity as abstract painter and as cartoonist, satirist, crusader, explicator, and slide-show maker.

Before “Black Lives Matter” and I Can’t Breathe,” there was “A Man Was Lynched Yesterday.” I reported on the show featuring objects from Russian revolutionary posters to NAACP protest banners to work by contemporary artist-provocateurs like Dread Scott. Published in the Wall Street Journal, Dec. 9, 2015.

Where are the great men artists?: The story of the famous cover of the ARTnews October 1980 issue

Using art history, chemistry, and detective work, conservators at the Museum of Modern Art uncover intriguing details in three classic paintings.

An exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art searched for the Jewish roots of Rembrandt’s Jesus and revisited the Dutch master’s misunderstood relationship with Judaism

Carvings, castings, and other sculptural objects created by Jackson Pollock are turning up in New York galleries—raising intriguing questions about how they relate to his paintings.

The artist who notoriously said “what you see is what you see” is revealed as a master of double entendres that interconnect with visual puns and literary wormholes in his survey at the Whitney Museum.

Dogon, Flavin, Outkast, Dave Chappelle, the Incredible Hulk, and more coexist in Robert Pruitt's identity-expanding drawings of women at the Studio Museum.

A guide to weird and wild contemporary-art quilts by conceptualists, code-breakers, feminists, fashionistas, Afrofuturists, and street artists

Drawings at the Whitney reveal the step-by-step process that Edward Hopper used to create his iconic painting of a New York diner at night.

The spectacular, panoramic, pasted-paper mural that Saul Steinberg created for the American Pavilion of the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair is reassembled for the first time at the Ludwig Museum.

The first thing to understand about “Caribbean: Crossroads of the World,” the cluster of exhibitions opening concurrently at El Museo del Barrio, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Queens Museum of Art in June, is that these aren’t shows of Caribbean art. They’re shows of art about the Caribbean.

As a Black woman artist and activist whose goal has been to “deal with American history as it is not told,” Howardena Pindell long faced exclusion on many levels. In recent years, she has become recognized as pioneer and thought leader whose influence goes far beyond the studio.

Carolee Schneemann's classic, erotic, transgressive work from the '60s takes center stage in Miami.