ARCHIVES

Lee Krasner
Brooklyn Museum of Art; through January 7.
Edward Steichen
Whitney Museum of American Art; through February 4.

Alexander Girard splashed the gray face of postwar minimalism with a riot of color and infused modernist intellectual design with the giddy warmth of folk art.

The third of MoMA's brawny surveys of its collection covers the period from 1960 to 2000 -- a time in art, as in the larger world, of violent change.

Richard Meier's expansive, light-suffused design for the U.S. Courthouse in Islip is as passionate about modernism as it is about democracy itself.

An exhibit at NYU's Grey Gallery shows how Japanese makeup giant Shiseido spent a century making Asian women fashionably beautiful.

Despite the silly title, the Guggenheim makes the case for six masters of the Russian avant-garde -- all of whom happen to have been women.

A stolid pedestrian ramp at the NYSE is transformed with the luminous fluidity of a data stream; wrong turn at the Crossroads of the World.

An overdue retrospective reveals Barbara Kruger as a visionary who uses Madison Avenue techniques to subvert Madison Avenue values.

In the humble still lifes of Chardin -- many painters' favorite painter -- you can find everything you need to know; it's the fleeting moments that matter in Sargent.

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill finally offers a plan for Columbus Circle that emboldens one of the city's great intersections -- but does it go far enough?