Four shows around town offer fresh looks at some familiar painters. Who knew there was anything more to learn about Modigliani?

Gritty and grounded, Max Ernst managed to dig out the more substantive side of Surrealism.

In Dieter Roth’s disorderly art, the ideas sometimes fare about as well as the rotting fruit and other detritus that formed his palette.

The New Museum’s survey of the East Village art scene is loose and shaggy—but so was the real thing.

BitStreams

For its millennial show on the human figure, MoMA rearranges some familiar works in its permanent collection -- with eye-opening results.

Behind Closed Doors: The Art of Hans Bellmer

A century’s worth of proletarian portraits gives the Arab world a very different face.

Susan Rothenberg
Brice Marden

Jack Goldstein and Gregory Crewdson continue dancing on the line between earnest and distanced.