An immense international festival in Germany shows that art can potentially change history, not just reflect it, our critic writes.
The artist specialized in light sculptures, brutal music and ignoring the establishment.
There is nothing simple about the work of Belkis Ayón, a printmaker who drew her inspiration from the Abaquá, a secret male society with an origin story based on female betrayal.
Five exhibitions celebrate Expo 67, revisiting that watershed moment of a great futuristic fair in Montreal, 50 years ago.
The political and often darkly comic art of this country in the 1960s and ’70s came out of a world of house parties and private handshakes.
New layers to the art of Betty Parsons; the painter Peter Shear gets his first New York solo show; and Leidy Churchman responds to the threat of the internet.
The playwright Lynn Nottage’s Brooklyn house is a standing-room-only theater-in-the-round of African-American art: its contents and its discontents.
The new museum dedicated to Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, in Springfield, Mass., left out some controversial political cartoons.
The artist donated his large sculpture “Bouquet of Tulips” to honor terrorism victims. The project is stuck in red tape, and its critics wish it would disappear.
The German-born Mr. Breder left New York for the University of Iowa to establish the first interdisciplinary art program of its kind.