Jason Farago

Commencement is the rare American ritual that still has rules. That’s why it’s ripe for disruption.

An exhibition in downtown Manhattan showcases more than a dozen grass-roots efforts to rebuild war-stricken cities.

President Biden’s toughest opponent may not be his predecessor. It is the cultural meaning, built up through centuries, that we assign to being old.

Born into slavery, Guillaume Lethière became one of France’s most decorated painters. For the first time, a major exhibition gives us the full view of his scenes of love and war.

In video footage, everything was pandemonium. It was still images that defined the attack and its aftermath.

Misunderstood for decades, the sculptor and filmmaker is pushing ceramic to its limits. He’s dancing. He’s making the best work of his career.

When the athletes march in — or float in, as they will in Paris on Friday — you can enjoy the illusion that it’s a small world after all.

Once, the word signified supernatural things. In the mouth of Kamala Harris’s running mate, weirdness is much more earthbound.

Who needs Brooklyn? From Ithaca to Buffalo, the art is overflowing in upstate New York.

The sprawling California festival “PST Art” promises a dialogue between “two cultures.” But painting and physics may have more in common than their practitioners know.