Bigger names have come and gone, but few careers in painting have been more consistently interesting over the last 25 years than Carroll Dunham’s. Mr. Dunham, who is 58 and lives in New York, is known for his cartoonish paintings of blockheaded men with penis-shaped, bullet-firing noses, who star in hectic stories of sexual conflict [...]

Despite the grandiose title, this is neither the long overdue survey of American art we need in this country, nor even a small-scale “masterpiece” show that would whet the appetite for one. Instead, Dulwich Picture Gallery’s spring exhibition is a miscellany of works from the collection of the tiny Addison Gallery of American Art in [...]

A new exhibition at Asia Society captures the fleeting sensuality within the theaters, teahouses and brothels of Edo during the 17th and 18th centuries. A woodcut from the play, “A Medley of Tales of Revenge,” by Toshusai Sharaku In the theaters, teahouses and brothels of Edo, pleasure was a serious business. For a period during [...]

“Rebus” by Robert Rauschenberg, 1955 Organized by Ann Temkin, a curator in the Museum of Modern Art’s department of painting and sculpture, “Color Chart” looks at contemporary artists for whom color functions as a ready-made — something to be bought or appropriated, rather than mixed on a palette. As Frank Stella famously quipped, “I tried [...]

Gallery workers hang a painting entitled ‘The Golden Age 1530′ by the German artist Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

The Stamford Museum & Nature Center presents Architecture of the Imagination: The Lure of the LEGO® Brick Featuring Nathan Sawaya: The Art of the Brick™, on view through August 17, 2008. More than just child’s play, the nearly iconic LEGO® brick has become an art medium all its own. “LEGO® is a phenomenon,” explains Curator [...]

“Design and the Elastic Mind,” an exhilarating new show opening on Sunday at the Museum of Modern Art, makes the case that through the mechanism of design, scientific advances of the last decade have at least opened the way to unexpected visual pleasures. As revolutionary in its own way as MoMA’s “Machine Art” exhibition of [...]