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Leon Golub: Paintings, 1950-2000
Between Street and Mirror: The Drawings of James Ensor

The best thing about the Met’s “Manet/Velázquez,” a look at the influence of Spain on French art, is the chance to see such a huge number of great paintings under one roof.

The spectacular third installment in the Met’s Byzantine series may focus on an era of decline, but you wouldn’t know it from the art.

At the Met's exhibition of an eccentric physician's hoard of paintings, more veneration of Saints Vincent (Van Gogh) and Paul (Cezanne).

Ralph Eugene Meatyard’s eerie, gorgeous portraits of children walk a line between sentimental and gothic.

A new mural celebrates the Brooklyn Museum’s emergence from the past with a vision of the future. It isn’t pretty (unless you’re a roach).

In the soot drawings and elaborate organic-looking sculptures of Lee Bontecou, glimpses of the eternal.

Gilbert Stuart’s Washington portraits evoke art history’s most famous—and enigmatic—smile.

How Ed Ruscha’s drawings and photographs— of signs, gas stations, parking lots—put viewers in an L.A. state of mind.