New York Times - Art & Design

Despite the rocky economy and the recent announcement of government cutbacks for arts financing, the Tate Modern in London is growing.

Corneille was one of the founders of the Cobra group of artists who stressed color and vitality.

Maya Lin’s “Storm King Wavefield” can be observed through the changing seasons.

The performance artist Ann Liv Young returned on Sunday to MoMA P.S. 1 to discuss her appearance in February, which ended in the museum turning the lights off on her.

Two coming exhibitions shed new light on the glory days of Max’s Kansas City, an oasis for artists in the 1960s and ’70s.

Harvey Pekar, the obsessive chronicler of everyday lives, was collaborating at the end of his life on a Web project whose fate in print remains uncertain.

Mr. Conrad’s editorial cartoons in The Los Angeles Times and other papers slashed presidents, skewered pomposity and exposed what he saw as injustice for six decades.

An exhibition of American and Native American works at the Montclair Art Museum, drawn from its own collection, spans more than 800 years.

The museum said it had pushed back the planned opening of its new site from April to September or October 2011.

Tom Doyle said he still planned to sue a friend who claimed to have lost his $1.35 million painting, “Portrait of a Girl,” declaring, “I’ve really got a lot of people mad at me.”

An exhibition counters the notion that late work by Dalí is bad, and that most Dalí is late work.

“Bad art” — rescued from trash heaps and thrift shops — has become a genre in itself, with its own fans.

Takashi Murakami's superflat characters about 40 feet long when their balloon incarnations are completed, and about three stories tall when filled with helium.

A selected guide to the visual arts in New York and the region.

An exhibition about the Pennsylvania carver and sculptor Wharton Esherick, known for his mid-20th-century undulating furniture, opens on Sept. 7 in galleries at the University of Pennsylvania.

“Underground Pop,” at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, N.Y., highlights the tension between college-trained sophistication and fictions of naïveté.

Lorenzo Dow Turner dug deep to find many African-inflected elements in the Gullah language and culture.

Lee Friedlander’s “America by Car,” opening Saturday at the Whitney Museum, consists of black-and-white photographs taken from inside cars.

A member of the expert team that declared that a box of negatives bought at a California garage sale were the lost work of Ansel Adams has changed his mind.

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