Jason Farago

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.

Exactly 150 years ago, Monet, Degas, Renoir and their pals spurred an artistic revolution. Can we still see the defiance behind the beauty, and the schmaltz?

A shimmering dream on the Nile has inspired creativity from the Harlem Renaissance to Kara Walker to Beyoncé. But how much can you play with the past?

Now we fret about chatbots. An earlier age worried about automatons, the uncanny humanoid contraptions whose voices could trigger love or mania.