Food for Thought
Everyone agrees that portion sizes in depictions of the Last Supper have grown. Not everyone agrees why. Read More
Looking at Art
Wrestling with ‘Wrestlers’
Deaccessioned twice and the subject of multiple interpretations, a provocative Eakins sporting picture takes its place in a new collection and a new show. Read More
Uncovering Matisse
The first major survey of Matisse's output during World War I uses cutting-edge technology and old-fashioned connoisseurship to reveal his radical system of scraping, scratching, and repainting. Read More
A Head of Its Time
How a 500-year-old portrait sculpture made in what is now Nigeria changed the way people think about African art. Read More
Dancing with Degas
An exhibition explores Picasso's seven-decade obsession with a man he saw as not only an artistic predecessor but also a father figure. Read More
A ‘Desperate Beauty’
In her portrait of the Gruen family, Alice Neel tempers her penchant for the grotesque with a touch of the sublime. Read More
Yves Klein’s Leap Year
Two shows shed light on the story behind the iconic photograph. Read More
Looking at Art
Minding his A’s and E’s: How Saul Steinberg defined aesthetics in a nutshell. Read More
Disharmony in the Concert
His two Concerts show Titian imitating—and then turning away from—Giorgione. Read More
A Roman Emperor’s Tough Guy Image
The Met’s portrait of Caracalla is a consummate example of art as propaganda Read More
Irving Penn’s Modern Venus
In a photo recalling an ancient sculpture, he transformed a female nude into a timeless fertility goddess. Read More
Underrated/Overrated
Who are the great artists you never heard of? Who's hot who's not?. Read More