Peter Plagens

Virginia Dwan’s support of artists, both through her galleries and direct financing, helped popularize figures like Robert Rauschenberg and Ad Reinhardt.

The novelist celebrated for ‘Les Misérables’ was also a talented artist, creating dreamy, menacing and presciently avant-garde works.

The contemporary painter’s largest U.S. museum survey to date is more impressive than likable.

The Neue Galerie features likenesses made during the Weimar Republic, when the art form flourished despite looming uncertainty in the world.

The avant-garde movement, often regarded as inscrutable, can be surprisingly accessible and even entertaining.

An exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum provides a glimpse into the evolution of the 20th-century American modernist’s signature style.

A pair of shows, one intimate and one expansive, look at the painter’s pioneering work in the genre.

The ever-creative Californian, who died last week at age 95, abandoned painting early on in favor of the pioneering installations and site-specific works that defined ‘light and space’ art.

Reopened after a renovation and expansion, the museum has a lively assortment of contemporary and modern art—including a breathtaking display of paintings by Clyfford Still—and a strong collection of recent acquisitions.

This show at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis includes work from the 1960s to the 1980s in its exploration of artists living behind the Iron Curtain in Central and Eastern Europe.