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In the dark, cartoonish paintings of Carroll Dunham, currently on display at the New Museum, a veneer of slapstick can't conceal the underlying savagery.

Two big grab-bag shows demonstrate the pleasures of letting the art speak for itself; a Bill Viola video installation evokes the great religious frescoes of old.

Two retrospectives argue that the painters Chassériau and Gottlieb -- often forgotten because neither fits neatly into any single movement -- are worth a second look.

In the smudged, partially erased chalk-on-blackboard images of Gary Simmons, nothing -- and everything -- is black and white.

As sex becomes so mainstream that there's now an entire Manhattan museum devoted to the subject, whither smut?

A big Met retrospective of his portraits shows that even when the great Richard Avedon traveled to unfamiliar places, he saw his subjects through a New Yorker's eyes.

An amusing and eye-opening exhibit reveals the lengths to which Victorian artists would go to justify their portrayals of nudity. Has anything changed?

MoMA QNS
New York: Capital of Photography

The Paintings of Joan Mitchell

Thomas Eakins