The Met’s new Greek and Roman galleries are perfect for scholars and Byronic dreamers alike.

Venice and Barcelona could accept impurity and flux better than most places—and were all the richer for it.

Yale photo guru Tod Papageorge has taught his share of art stars. Is it his turn now?

The Brooklyn Museum’s new feminist-art center shows us that sisterhood can be both powerful and clichéd.

Jeff Wall is the most exciting kind of contemporary artist—one who engages the past, and lives up to it.

Contemporary art is reflexively cynical. But a cynic is nothing without a utopian ideal.

A century ago, they really knew how to spend money.

Aitken’s video installation turns the museum inside out.

Yes, Kiki Smith’s art can shock. But she’d rather make you a little sad.

Two fresh looks at Saul Steinberg’s perfectly off-kilter urban landscape.