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With "Making Choices," the Museum of Modern Art continues to rethink and rearrange its collection, and the results are eye-opening.

The flowing lines and sweeping shapes of a little-known medieval sculptor are enough to tarnish Rodin's reputation.

Trainloads of New Yorkers head to Long Island City for a new show surveying the year-2000 state of local art -- but where's the painting?

Because the ancients painted on wood, some of their most glorious art is dust; all the more reason to treasure the "mummy portraits" at the Met.

Nam June Paik has spent his career thinking inside the box -- the TV -- and his retrospective is broadband, with hundreds of fascinating channels.

Walker Evans's photographs, on exhibit at the Met, transcend all the platitudes -- providing a portrait of the American soul.

Two shows at the Museum of Natural History look at people who decorate their bodies and at butterflies, who have no choice in the matter.

The paintings of Jenny Saville, the latest prodigy from the Freud-Bacon school of British fleshmongers, amount to a kind of anti-advertising.

Artists once dreamed about the future; now they just worry about Y2K like the rest of us. Here, three shows look to the past for a vision of a brave new world.