A pristine, stripped-down aesthetic conceals the messy realities of society.

The Brooklyn Museum’s new show—now shuttered due to coronavirus fears—captures a time that has never felt so distant.

The Museum of Modern Art has used an expansive renovation to both reintroduce and celebrate itself.

On Apollo 11's fiftieth anniversary, a new exhibition at the Met explores the moon's place in our cultural imagination.

How a starchitect’s dramatic design for LACMA was hacked to bits

A new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art depicts self-indulgence amid the disorder of a decaying world.

Can the artist’s things tell us what drove her?

A pioneer of abstraction, the Swedish artist made mysterious, cosmic paintings her life’s work.

The new art-world satire 'Velvet Buzzsaw' is schlocky, fun, and flashy. But is its critique fair?

A new exhibition is a beautiful investigation of a little-known corner of Sino-Soviet cultural history.

How an archaeological discovery involving lapis lazuli and an 11th-century skeleton turned into an online drama

Martha Rosler shows how the world really works.

William Kentridge’s new performance piece uses various media to tell the story of the unsung conscripts of World War One.

Edward Gorey’s lifelong experiments in the absurd and unsettling

New York is the stage for the "Mile Long Opera," a breakthrough work of public art.

A new exhibition of Yugoslav architecture at MoMA is a refreshing antidote to the online world's obsession with minimalism.

Artists head to the desert to build a utopia. But does their work hold up in the real world?

The venerable museum has "given back" some stolen Iraqi antiquities, but that does not mean it's ready to atone for its colonial-era sins.

How do you curate the work of a man who became a symbol?

Adrian Piper’s art plays with identity and confronts defensiveness.