The Trump administration has presented an extraordinary challenge to the normal workings of government and the rule of law. What is to be done? Is impeachment the answer, or should all efforts be directed at defeating him in the 2020 election?

The problem with nasty Bouguereau was that it didn’t sell. The problem with nice Bouguereau was that it sold so well that it undermined the intermittent impulse to unleash nasty Bouguereau.

Some of James Nasmyth’s photographs can be seen in a superb exhibition, “Apollo’s Muse: The Moon in the Age of Photography,” now at the Metropolitan Museum. They are peculiar and fantastic, using plaster and staged lighting to create images of mountains and craters that could not yet be properly seen.

Paula Rego’s subjects are physically vulnerable, but it’s clear that she’s not painting victims.

David Zwirner Books and The New York Review of Books are pleased to announce POWER/CULTURE, a four-part series of public talks that will bring together leading writers, artists, and thinkers to explore the role of power within the cultural sphere.

Six women photographers are featured in an exhibition, now at the New York Historical Society, on how these women’s work “contributed to LIFE’s pursuit of American identity through photojournalism."

They say there are some musicians who are admired, and some who are loved. Imogen Cooper is very much admired, not least by other pianists, but as she marks her seventieth birthday on August 28, there can scarcely be any musician alive who is more truly loved.

While it should be possible for someone looking at Pat Steir's paintings to feel that they depict or suggest the flowing of water downward over rock or stone, that is to miss the point of works that are concerned much more with the potential of paint than the need to represent something in nature.

This month: Joseph Losey's vision of occupied Paris, a Fellini-esque take on Berlusconi, and 'Blue Velvet' in 4K.

This summer, sixteen years after he transformed the Turbine Hall, Olafur Eliasson has returned to Tate Modern with a retrospective exhibition, “In Real Life,” that ranges from his student days to special installations tailored to the occasion.