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.

“Basquiat” is a bit too reverent, but it catches the messy energy of the artist in his moment.

Two African-American painters who turned to Europe for inspiration -- and found a home away from home.

Atsuko Tanaka’s plugged-in dress has managed to do what most other performance art can’t: maintain its power for decades.

In Julia Margaret Cameron's nineteenth-century photographs of women, glimpses of life as it is dreamed, not lived.

Isamu Noguchi was a man of dualities: West and East, coarse and refined, optimist and realist.

Giorgio Armani
Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum; through January 17.

In his grandiose landscape paintings, Frederic Edwin Church staked out that typically American space between the sideshow and the sublime.

The imprisoned Chinese painter and writer Mu Xin blended East and West in his misty landscapes—and saved himself in the process.