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A provocative Museum of Modern Art show examines how, for better or worse, photography changed the face of fame.

In their Chelsea gallery shows, Tracey Moffatt and Cindy Sherman bring new life to an old subject, as each creates a theater of the perverse.

The overripe imagination of Gustave Moreau, who turned his back on the prevailing tastes of nineteenth-century Paris -- and on reality itself.

At the Met's exhibition of an eccentric physician's hoard of paintings, more veneration of Saints Vincent (Van Gogh) and Paul (Cezanne).

An exuberant show at the Whitney captures Henry Luce's notion of the American Century -- but has precious little to say about art.

The Met finally gives the best collection of ancient Greek art in the Western Hemisphere -- that is, its own -- the setting it deserves.

Amid the cultural wreckage of postwar Germany, all ties to tradition severed, Sigmar Polke created visionary art that didn't look like "art."

In MoMA's "Museum As Muse" show, artists cast a critical eye at the way museums go about the very act of presenting art.

Two shows at the Met bring "permanent" collections of art from the Middle Ages (one the museum's own, the other on loan from Assisi) back to new, vivid life.