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Once dismissed, now revered, El Greco was a Renaissance man with a deep religious streak. A show at the Met revels in this contradiction.

Ambitious photography shows at the Met and the ICP shed light on the way the camera can obscure the truth as much as reveal it.

An artist whose witty Conceptual gems from the Vietnam era to the present transcend the merely absurd to reveal deeper truths.

The imprisoned Chinese painter and writer Mu Xin blended East and West in his misty landscapes—and saved himself in the process.

Artists from around the globe take a hard look at the United States—and you probably won’t be surprised by what they see.

At MoMA QNS, a modernist painter who distinguished himself by bearing the weight of the world—and a delicious Pop contrast.

At the Met, a clear-eyed American translation of European modernism, and a movie that New Yorkers shouldn’t miss.

Recent events in the region add resonance to the Met’s magnificent gathering of ancient art from the Fertile Crescent; Malevich’s supreme Suprematism at the Guggenheim.

With its new space in a retrofitted 75-year-old factory in Beacon, New York, Dia takes sixties-style minimalism beyond Manhattan.

In the dreamy Whistler portraits of elegant nineteenth-century society ladies on view at the Frick, the clothes make the woman.