We asked 100 scientists about unsolved problems in their fields. They sent back provocations — on the origins of life, the possibilities for human progress and much more.

A new book pays tribute to the female investors, curators, collectors and more without whom the Museum of Modern Art in New York likely would not exist.

Ann Temkin, head of MoMA’s painting and sculpture department, will transition to a new role for the museum’s 100th anniversary.

Why Deana Lawson, one of photography’s greatest contemporary portraitists, suddenly found herself drawn to the “wall of shame.”

Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock are the focus of a blockbuster show at the Met Museum. Four paintings reveal how their high-intensity relationship became a laboratory for ideas.

Famous for sidewalk merchants and street traffic, Canal has long been a rough and tumble corridor of commerce and creativity. The city wants to make it safer.

Making climate-conscious art at scale and in public is arduous, expensive and often exhausting. Agnes Denes, Mary Mattingly, Maya Lin and their peers have built substantial careers, sustain themsel…

We’re starting to learn more about how the technology can change us.

She had to settle for the kitchen as her studio but Lee Krasner finally gets her share of the spotlight at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Only by being exhibited alongside her husband, Jackson Pollock, can Lee Krasner fully and finally emerge from his shadow.

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Gallerists have uncovered rare works by Marguerite and William Zorach, shining light on the pioneering collaborators. Their modern art love story bows at the Independent 20th Century fair.

It’s remarkable that not one or two, or a handful, but 50 women in 1913 were accepted by the all-male Association of American Painters and Sculptors, and showed side by side with the most pro…

Taryn Simon’s new show at the Guggenheim Museum is an audacious attempt to document the story of modern America through the life of one F.B.I. agent.

It’s remarkable that not one or two, or a handful, but 50 women in 1913 were accepted by the all-male Association of American Painters and Sculptors, and showed side by side with the most pro…

It’s remarkable that not one or two, or a handful, but 50 women in 1913 were accepted by the all-male Association of American Painters and Sculptors, and showed side by side with the most pro…

The species, called a tilcayo, is smaller than a house cat and lives in the cloud forests of the Andes Mountains in Bolivia.

Art is long, but autumn will be here and gone before you know it. Head to one of these exceptional new shows to refresh, relax, rediscover old treasures, and re...

Isabella Rossellini, Lonnie Ali, Anderson Cooper and other relatives of those who figured in the celebrated photographer’s portraiture bolster a new exhibition at the Jack Shainman Gallery.

A landmark retrospective by the late Japanese artist invites visitors to surrender individual identity and step into an infinite cosmos.

Sofonisba Anguissola was the Renaissance's most famous woman painter, but history has forgotten her four artist sisters.

The medieval masterpiece has traveled from France to England for a once-in-a-lifetime show. It is not what our critic Jason Farago expected.