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New York exhibition reveals the array of techniques artists used to conceal their subjects’ identities
German panthers and Hollywood lions more vivid than photographs populate his pictures, now on show in New York
The artist was a hero to ceramicists but unknown outside the art world when she died in 2011
The American artist anticipated the arrival of social media with her focus on herself but her work now seems dated
New York’s Grey Art Museum show adds nuance to the story of how modern art evolved, with works from Joan Mitchell and lesser-known names
Bard Graduate Center’s extensive show evokes the artist’s canny business mind too
‘The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism’ draws connections between European and African-American movements
The artist revelled in unexpected perspectives and drew inspiration from photography and fashion
The artist’s sculptures and collages, on show at Michael Rosenfeld gallery, reflected the turmoil of the times — and in her mind
The FT’s US art critic shares a few of her favourite works in a world-leading permanent collection
New York exhibition ‘Don’t Forget to Call Your Mother’ features mid-century Americana and contemporary Chinese artists
People pushed to the background of canvases are given their due at the American Folk Art Museum in New York
His use of Jewish and Nazi imagery was bound to outrage but his body of work has much more to it
An invigorating show at NYU documents how Al Ani portrayed the nation’s antiquities as witnesses to the aftershocks of modernity
The Argentine’s subversive, spectacular work mixes pleasure and politics in an earnest New York show
The Vietnamese-American artist has explored the tensions of modern life in her work
Five centuries of paintings, including Giotto, Rembrandt and Goya, are displayed with understated intelligence in the New York museum
The two great artists’ feverishly creative trip to southern France in 1905 and how it yielded a bold new style
Opulent paintings and ostentatious books at the Morgan Library show how merchants and bankers worried about wealth
A darkly thrilling survey of the German artist’s early work asks whether it simply expressed his pessimism — or was it a form of reportage?
An abundant retrospective embraces the full sweep of the artist’s frustratingly uneven work
She has used bloody sanitary pads, candy-coloured car bonnets and smoke machines in her work
Endowing his subjects with dignity and majesty, his paintings are a match for the Old Masters
The artist used the flowers, leaves and people around her in her luminous work
The Museum of the City of New York has assembled everything from film clips to graphic novels
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