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Visionary clothing designer Issey Miyake, the subject of an exhilarating retrospective and book, just may be the most joyful artist working today.

Two African-American painters who turned to Europe for inspiration -- and found a home away from home.

At the Met, a show of Low Countries paintings from Van Eyck to Bruegel captures a defining moment -- when artists fell in love with the worldly.

Examining the old iconography of Communism and the consumerist images that are replacing it, artists from an evolving China find some common ground.

Nicholas Barker's disturbingly intimate "Unmade Beds" looks and listens intently as four singles search for love in New York City -- and, naturally, come up short.

At MoMA, the work of Rodchenko, who put down his brush to invent the look of the Russian Revolution -- only to be crushed by reality.

In the quotidian "Six Days, Seven Nights," Anne Heche glistens.

In the hands of Wolfgang Laib, pollen -- painstakingly, ritualistically gathered bit by bit over months -- becomes luminous art.

At the Jewish Museum, the visceral paintings of Chaim Soutine, one of the century's essential outsiders.