Family as a fine art
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The literature of the American theater is chockablock with dysfunctional-family dramas, stories about fathers loathing mothers, wives resenting husbands, brothers and sisters who care too much
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The Metropolitan Museumâs show offers a supremely clear account of his maturation from brilliant, methodical young artist to a deeper, more lyrical, less predictable one.
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South Asian art is a hard sell here. Does it come across as too sexy, too spiritual, too naturalistic, too all of these? Asia Society smooths over the issue by offering a something-for-everyone array.
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A select group of New York artists this year brought vibrant dance from a multitude of generations.
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This season collections had a wide range of inspirations, from 18th century painters to 1980s hipsters
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By SHARON SHORT  Most of the items that decorate the walls in our home are pretty self-explanatory: family photos in most every room, framed book covers in my office, candles and vases, here and there.
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It is difficult to find anything positive about war, but the pictures in the news of children and their military fathers loving each other have been heart-rending. They remind us that there is nothing on Earth more precious and sacred than the love between fathers and their children.
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Foreign collectors want them. Newly minted local millionaires want them. The rise and rise of the country's modern artists
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Vivid but concentrated, this absolutely beautiful show presents, mostly through paintings, a cultureÂs version of its own origins.
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The Philadelphia Museum of Art's show of Renaissance portraits and drawings provides a gripping art experience, visually and psychologically.
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Being naturally creative, artists often excel at more than just making art. In some cases they so excel that they double up or even switch professions.
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Even for families vacationing closer to home than Venice, there is something to be said for inviting along a companion for a child or children.
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Ralph Eugene Meatyard's staged portraits capture the mysterious, inexpressible ties of family as seen at the International Center of Photography.
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Razia Iqbal explains why the Royal Academy's From Russia show is considered so important in the art world.
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Can artists do a better job than politicians at portraying politics as appealing? This is a question posed by the four contenders for this year&#39;s Turner art prize at Tate Britain.
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One of the world's finest art collections has finally got the kind of clean, modern space that old masters such as Goya, Velazquez and El Greco deserve.
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With 80 works ranging from folksy illustrations to precisionist Dutch-inspired landscapes and loose 20th-century abstractions, âBrushed With Light: American Landscape Watercolors From the Collectionâ offers a minihistory of American painting.