At the Whitney Biennial, mostly serious work for a serious age
Delayed by the pandemic, the nation's premier biennial returns with a sobering look at our world.
Phillips Collection show commemorates victims of domestic violence
Puerto Rico-born, Washington-based artist Marta Pérez García's installation "Restos-Traces" commemorates victims of domestic violence with hand-formed paper figures.
National Gallery enters new, overdue era with African diaspora show
National Gallery enters new era with African diaspora exhibit. It’s overdue.
The beauty in changing one’s mind
Kano Sansetsu’s six-panel screen illustrates the legendary story of the Chinese calligrapher Wang Ziyou.
An L.A. museum pays homage to film’s birthplace (hint: It isn’t L.A.)
A new exhibit showcases the birth of cinema, not in Hollywood but in 19th century Paris.
A thrilling new take on Winslow Homer — America’s favorite artist
Major exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in New York coincides with the release of a new biography.
National Portrait Gallery exhibition looks at Watergate 50 years later
Review: At the National Portrait Gallery, ‘Watergate: Portraiture and Intrigue’ marks the 50th anniversary of Watergate with an exhibition of portraits of major and minor players in the political scandal.
In the galleries: Fresh perspectives on the powerful presence of trees
Photos venture into cultural connections with ethereal beauty.
‘Coal and Ice’ exhibit won’t help you understand climate change
“Coal and Ice" at the Kennedy Center does little to overcome a trite, alienating narrative about the climate crisis.
MoMA is finally paying attention to great artists from Africa
A survey of the career of the Ivory Coast’s Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, one of the continent’s most celebrated artists, comes to New York.
This dashing self-portrait by Rembrandt is one of his greatest
Rembrandt painted self-portraits throughout his career. This 17th-cenury work is one of his best.
A deep dive into Picasso’s Blue Period at the Phillips Collection
The artist painted human misery in these undeniably compelling images, but was his empathy genuine?
Yayoi Kusama is back at the Hirshhorn. Here’s what you need to know.
A new mini exhibition, dedicated to works by Yayoi Kusama in the collection of the Hirshhorn, opens April 1.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s robe, briefcase, Lego likeness head to Smithsonian
Dozens of objects are joining the permanent collection as the American History Museum posthumously honors the Supreme Court justice with a Great Americans Medal.
Children at play in the midst of war
Henry Koerner was celebrated as one of America's pre-eminent war artists when he painted this haunted image. He had only recently found out that his entire family had been murdered by the Nazis.
America may finally be ready for Alberto Giacometti’s uncompromising art
Alberto Giacometti, known for stick-like sculptures of the human condition, has a major traveling exhibition.
A master of propaganda, artist Jacques Louis David helped sell Frenchmen on the Revolution
New drawings exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art documents the artist’s creative process as he both painted and perpetrated great storms in French history.