Holland Cotter

This was a year whose high points included Joan Jonas’s luminous survey, the extravaganza “PST ART,” and the 24-karat beauty of a show “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350.”

The art critics of The Times select their favorites, from the biography of a “famously unknown” artist to an ode to the Louvre from 100 poets.

The glowing works from Siena, now at the Met, are revelatory for their emotional intensity and 24-karat beauty.

The sprawling PST festival of more than 70 exhibitions doesn’t quite live up to its theme of art and science colliding. But there is a handful of impressive entries.

A new American wing draws on feminist and racially and ethnically diverse thinking to spotlight 400 exceptional works in its collection.

Music’s in the air, and there’s painting and sculpture in imaginative variety as an art museum gives rare treatment to an ephemeral medium.

Sublime Sienese art at the Met, Pan-African art throughout Chicago, a 200th anniversary at the Brooklyn Museum: These extravaganzas are not to be missed.

Nearly lost, Mary Sully’s discovered drawings riff on Modernist geometries and Dakota Sioux beadwork and quilting. Our critic calls it “symphonically bicultural.”

Fifty-five years after Stonewall, a new tourist center suggests that what the riots stood for is old history. But is everything now OK?

The documentary photographer honors those who turn their energies to a social good. And our critic says this artist does the same.