Art Review

A show at the Getty Museum examines the British writer, painter and printmaker, who aspired in his work to achieve the mythical.

Two exhibitions look at the arc of the Young British Artist’s career, from a mid-’90s performance work to some of her most recent paintings.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, mounts an exhibition on the role of dress, performance and identity in John Singer Sargent’s work, but it misses the essence of his artistry.

A show at the Phillips Collection examines the interchange between African and African-American artists in a time of burgeoning independence and civil-rights struggles.

The West Coast painter’s first career-spanning survey, currently at the Whitney, celebrates the black experience with stunning portraits and mysterious narratives.

A sweeping show at the Baltimore Museum of Art and an exhibition at Washington’s newly renovated National Museum of Women in the Arts attempt to correct gender imbalances in the art-historical canon.

The painter’s first solo show in a decade, at PPOW, offers an imaginative alternate history set immediately before, during and after the War Between the States.

The Hammer Museum’s sixth iteration of its survey show includes painting, sculpture, weaving and even a tour of Los Angeles neighborhoods in an old Volvo.

London’s National Gallery mounts a major exhibition devoted to the Dutch Golden Age artist, whose virtuosic portraits still resonate in their eloquent naturalism.

From the vintage to the freshly pressed, the prints on view at this show in New York reveal a lively, multidimensional art form

A show at the Neue Galerie reveals the many different aspects of the German painter’s work during a decade that saw the ravages of World War I and the struggles and developing styles of the Weimar era.

At the New Museum, the artist’s first New York survey shows that there’s plenty to appreciate in her oeuvre beyond ‘The Dinner Party’

The artist spent the summer of 1921 working in a makeshift studio in the town south of Paris, creating four monumental masterpieces that are now reunited in a brilliant show at the Museum of Modern Art.

Commissions for the storied museum’s Great Hall and facade show its commitment to contemporary art but fail to live up to the spaces’ potential

An enchanting, community-curated show at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Vilcek Foundation features more than 100 works by indigenous Southwestern potters.

At the Art Institute of Chicago, two stunning Caravaggios—‘The Cardsharps’ and ‘Martha and Mary Magdalene’—are shown alongside works by those who were inspired by his talents.

One sculptor creates hauntingly voyeuristic works, while the other grapples with inner turmoil

At the Art Institute of Chicago, an exhibition of the Spanish-born artist, who fled Europe during World War II and painted spare, inventive scenes that blended the ordinary and the fantastic.

A show at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art includes the 20th-century pioneer’s remarkable assembled-wood sculptures, as well as a collection of prints and drawings.

An exhibition at the Guggenheim offers the first North American exploration of a movement pioneered during a tumultuous time in South Korea’s history