The Russian Avant-Garde Book, 1910–34
The New Way of Tea

Two shows at the Museum of Natural History look at people who decorate their bodies and at butterflies, who have no choice in the matter.

2002 Biennial

A retrospective of Gilbert Stuart's portraits of George Washington.

Amid the cultural wreckage of postwar Germany, all ties to tradition severed, Sigmar Polke created visionary art that didn't look like "art."

The Met's huge "Egyptian Art" show manages to dazzle without mummies; whispers of loss in the photographs of Adam Fuss.

Staying true to its mission, MoMA pays final tribute to twentieth-century modernism while clearing its palette for the twenty-first.

The Met finally gives the best collection of ancient Greek art in the Western Hemisphere -- that is, its own -- the setting it deserves.

Alberto Giacometti

At the Whitney, an artist who didn’t try to change the environment so much as become a part of it, almost fusing her body with the earth.