The new art-world satire 'Velvet Buzzsaw' is schlocky, fun, and flashy. But is its critique fair?

A new exhibition is a beautiful investigation of a little-known corner of Sino-Soviet cultural history.

How an archaeological discovery involving lapis lazuli and an 11th-century skeleton turned into an online drama

Martha Rosler shows how the world really works.

William Kentridge’s new performance piece uses various media to tell the story of the unsung conscripts of World War One.

Edward Gorey’s lifelong experiments in the absurd and unsettling

New York is the stage for the "Mile Long Opera," a breakthrough work of public art.

A new exhibition of Yugoslav architecture at MoMA is a refreshing antidote to the online world's obsession with minimalism.

Artists head to the desert to build a utopia. But does their work hold up in the real world?

The venerable museum has "given back" some stolen Iraqi antiquities, but that does not mean it's ready to atone for its colonial-era sins.

How do you curate the work of a man who became a symbol?

Adrian Piper’s art plays with identity and confronts defensiveness.

The artist looks back over a legendary career in comics.

What the Met Gala said about the relationship between Catholic art and contemporary America

A new show of French garden art at the Met explores the politics of verdant leisure spaces.

More art is being produced and sold than ever before, at ever higher prices.

By slicing through buildings in his art, Matta-Clark wanted to rescue them from neglect.

Three recent documentaries track the ingenious ways that banned literature, films, and music circulated in the Soviet Union.

Can the museum tell a new story about art—and reshape the Gulf's image?

A new retrospective at the Met struggles against its claustrophobic setting, but ultimately triumphs.