Hilton Kramer rejected political correctness to champion aesthetics and standards in art.
Duane Michals’s photography show at the Morgan Library is beautifully arranged, honest, and fresh.
A retrospective of Cindy Sherman’s photographs at London’s National Portrait Gallery
A Manhattan philanthropist and Whitney Museum trustee becomes a casualty to the social-justice mob.
The Whitney’s review of American art contains some extraordinary talent and technique, but the production as a whole is overdetermined.
A show about J.R.R. Tolkien will delight his fans.
A stunning new exhibit about Armenia illuminates the world’s first Christian nation.
A clever exhibit documents the history of a color.
The work of Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele shows us what art looked like in Central Europe before the lights went out.
An exhibition of Stanley Kubrick’s early photojournalism is piercingly brilliant and forecasts his cinematic genius.
The Baltimore Museum of Art looks to trade its classics for the hottest new thing.
The Whitney’s Grant Wood retrospective spotlights a uniquely Midwestern genius.
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