The ingredients of “Seed Stage,” an installation by Corin Hewitt at the Whitney Museum, include performance, photography, sculpture and cooking.

“Beyond the Canon: Small Scale American Abstraction, 1945-1965” at the Robert Miller Gallery mixes together unknown gems, golden oldies and undistinguished work.

Mr. Lundquist, an architect and industrial designer, led the team that created the United Nations logo.

Few of the arts benefited from the late economic boom more than design, but a little austerity could give designers a new sense of relevance.

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum checks in with veterans of a career-boosting visual arts program.

The prolific and wide-ranging art historian presided over the expansion of the National Gallery in London as its director.

An etching by Picasso and prints by Matisse and Braque were among 30 works stolen from a Berlin gallery during the New Year’s holiday.

Neil MacGregor, the director of the British Museum, was named Briton of the Year by The Times of London.

A close look a prosaic photograph by Friedhelm Denkeler, on display in the show “First Doubt: Optical Confusion in Modern Photography” at the Yale University Art Gallery.

Chinese and American conservators are restoring a mothballed Qing Dynasty retreat in the Forbidden City.

The rebuilding of the Hohenzollern Stadtschloss, a cultural misadventure from the start, captures Berlin in a nutshell as a city forever missing the point of itself.

Reviews of gallery shows by Farida Batool, Adeela Suleman and Tazeen Qayyum and others.

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More than 75 examples from Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s collection, including 30 ship models, can be seen in “Treasures of a President: FDR and the Sea.”

Once you get past its resplendent multiculturalism, Raqib Shaw’s art also reads as a series of homages to the artists he studied on his frequent trips to the National Gallery.

When it was quietly announced on Dec. 17 that this spring’s International Asian Art Fair would be canceled, many began to wonder about the fate of other art fairs.

Alanna Heiss’s last curatorial act as the director of P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center is a survey of the work of the elusive Italian artist Gino De Dominicis.

“Art’s Choice + Muniz = Rebus” is a marvelous teaching tool that lives up to its title with unusual extravagance if you give it enough time and attention.

The confounding photograph is the subject of an absorbing and thought-provoking exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery.

After two decades of neglect, Masstransiscope — an unusual piece of art that is part painting, part movie, part conceptual experiment — is once again playing to audiences on Manhattan-bound Q and B trains.