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In a bold new hang of the Met's European painting galleries, women artists, Black figures, and modern art take center stage.

Max Beckmann: The Formative Years, 1915-1925 explores the dark early works of an artist traumatized by World War I.

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Before the war (the First World War, I mean; with so many wars one can lose count), Max Beckmann was painting clean, traditionalist self-portraits and

A real vigor emerges in this exhibition at the Neue Galerie, which focuses on the painter’s unflinching Weimar scenes.

Rock legend John Mellencamp shows in his exhibit of new portraits at DTR Modern in Soho that he "ain't even done with the night." 

Julia Friedman on the art world’s response to war & the current chaos at “Artforum”.

Juanita McNeely, an uncompromising painter who used the language of expressionism to immortalize the sweetest and most brutal moments of her own femal

Her searing paintings, which could be sweet but also brutal, reflected her interest in the female body and what it could do.

Juanita McNeely, a groundbreaking feminist artist who bravely depicted her illegal abortion in a 1969 painting, has died at age 87.