Our staff and contributors look back on a year in art, from museum reopenings to shows that make and remake history.

When Georgia B. Smith recently walked into the Metropolitan Museum of Art on June 24, she felt nervous. The 34-year-old wasn’t there to admire 18th-century paintings alongside New York City’s summer ...

Several of the films on my best-of-the-year list, including “Last Air in Moscow,” are fundamentally timeless expressions and ...

Caspar David Friedrich’s mystic landscapes, their romantic origins and his revival in 21st-century exhibitions ...

Los Angeles painter Tristan Unrau is making his name for himself by eschewing easy definition and confines of authorship.