His intense style, which includes shooting the faces of passers-by close up with a flash, is laid bare by a confronting retrospective in New York
This mind-altering show features chromatic overload with heavy curatorial input
A New-York Historical Society exhibition covers department stores, a theatre where Houdini played and forgotten herds of pigs
His works capture a vanished time when outsiders partied with the gleam of movie stars
Her paintings of mothers and children can seem cloying — but a new show argues that there’s more than meets the eye
A New York show foregrounds the brilliance of the German Expressionist, who died at 31
The American artist’s oblique sayings were a hit at the museum in 1989 but her more recent work falls short
The photographer captures the downtrodden as individuals with history and agency in a rigorous but uneven New York show
Our US art critic’s personal voyage through one of the world’s greatest — and largest — permanent collections
The FT’s US art critic Ariella Budick helps us define what we like and what we don’t
A show of ‘art brut’ at the American Folk Art Museum illustrates how a psychiatric hospital became an artistic incubator
The artist has translated children’s schooldesk drawings into real-life works in a New York rooftop commission
The German artist’s dark oeuvre highlighted social problems with devastating power
New York exhibition reveals the array of techniques artists used to conceal their subjects’ identities
German panthers and Hollywood lions more vivid than photographs populate his pictures, now on show in New York
The artist was a hero to ceramicists but unknown outside the art world when she died in 2011
The American artist anticipated the arrival of social media with her focus on herself but her work now seems dated
New York’s Grey Art Museum show adds nuance to the story of how modern art evolved, with works from Joan Mitchell and lesser-known names
Bard Graduate Center’s extensive show evokes the artist’s canny business mind too
‘The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism’ draws connections between European and African-American movements
The artist revelled in unexpected perspectives and drew inspiration from photography and fashion
The artist’s sculptures and collages, on show at Michael Rosenfeld gallery, reflected the turmoil of the times — and in her mind
The FT’s US art critic shares a few of her favourite works in a world-leading permanent collection
New York exhibition ‘Don’t Forget to Call Your Mother’ features mid-century Americana and contemporary Chinese artists
People pushed to the background of canvases are given their due at the American Folk Art Museum in New York