A cultural summer in the city
New York is great in summer, but the art scene can sometimes be fleeting
Art exhibitions
Tuesday
Thursday
The divine Dalí and his ‘Christ’
In his imperfect, weird way, the artist was trying to understand something so deeply beautiful in itself, mere created beings cannot fully grasp it
Wednesday
The value — and worthlessness — of contemporary art
Should you spot a binder full of explanatory word salad at the entrance to an art exhibition, take it as a red flag
Saturday
Georgia O’Keeffe wants you to take your time
The new exhibition at MoMA relies on viewers being willing to hone in on detail
Sunday
What makes Berthe Morisot’s nudes so unique?
She provides a new lens to look at Impressionism
Monday
Murillo the masterful
The Spaniard’s painterly skill outshines his congenital weakness for schmaltz
Sunday
Dawn party
The Whitney Museum is digging back to the dawn of American Modernism
A chronicler of enormities
Leonard Baskin was not to everyone’s taste, and the feeling was mutual
Monday
Philip Guston in the padded room
After a controversial postponement, the Philip Guston retrospective has landed in Boston
Thursday
The one-note wonder
The Museum of Modern Art is seeing red with Matisse
Monday
Blues for Pablo
An exhibition of early Picasso has landed at the Phillips Collection in Washington
Thursday
Holbein at the Morgan
Holbein’s heroes have arrived in New York City
Monday
Hogarth framed
Great artists like Hogarth are getting the trigger-warning treatment
Monday
How did Walt Disney learn from Ancien Régime decoration?
Inspiring Walt Disney makes the case that Disney’s studio functioned in a similar way to an eighteenth-century decorative art manufactory
Thursday
A brush with Joan Mitchell
Joan Mitchell was a female star of the Abstract Expressionist boys’ club
Prints of Wales and elsewhere
Amid the turbulence of modernism, British artists made art for themselves