The Whitney’s retrospective cuts through the superstar baggage to focus on an artist with a refined eye and pure creative gift

History has caught up with the American artist’s fierce critique of pop culture

From the interracial Paris of Manet to today, black female subjects have often been absent from the story of modern art

Much of the artist’s work has lost its impact over the years, though some pieces are upsettingly powerful

The artist’s pioneering abstractions feel right at home on the spiral ramp of New York’s Guggenheim

On show at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, White’s paintings are the work of a quietly polemical artist

The artist’s in-your-face take on sexual politics brings diminishing returns in New York

New York’s Grey Art Gallery traces the uneasy encounter between neorealist photographers and the impoverished south

This indoor survey provides fascinating insights into an artist known for her ambitious outdoor installations

A New York show celebrates the artist’s rarely seen sculptures, produced in Crete and embracing a global aesthetic

An exhibition at the New Museum finds the German artist both hymning consumerism and repudiating it

A celebration of a ‘living landmark’ who documented the city’s shifting fashions

A Massachusetts exhibition of 19th-century female painters reveals — and mourns — long-suppressed talents

The artist’s furious responses to the Aids crisis of the 1980s are revealed in a provocative New York retrospective

Münter — subject of a show in Copenhagen — was an artist of fitful brilliance who deserved to be recognised in her own right

Fabulous beasts from the Middle Ages still throw light on human fears and aspirations

The African-American sculptor uses everyday detritus to create a resonant memorial to the victims of racial violence

The New York museum’s retrospective shows not a prophetic genius, but an artist who spoke most eloquently for himself

An exhibition that explores how artists in the 18th century interpreted a complex, conflicted land

The Congolese sculptor created cities as he wished them to be

Filipina-American artist Maia Cruz Palileo reflects on the Philippines’ colonial history in a series of richly allusive paintings

A New York show of the director’s early work as a photographer reveals his strengths — and limitations

Romantics once gloried in nature’s terrors — now artists seek the sublime in the clash between humans and nature

This show is a beguiling expedition through the artist’s domestic obsessions

At a time when many art collectors chase the same big names, Perlstein’s idiosyncrasies look visionary