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Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan

Andrew Jack on London's blockbuster show of the deepling alluring but often puzzling masterpieces by the Italian scientific visionary and artistic genius.

Cecil Beaton: The Artful Dodger Takes Manhattan

Alan Behr takes a closer look at the Cecil Beaton exhibition in New York and its companion book 'Cecil Beaton: The New York Years'.

The Steins: Patrons of the Parisian Avant-Garde

How an American expatriate family's early patronage of Matisse, Cézanne, Picasso and other artists of their day brought about a new standard of taste for modern art.

Jan Fabre: The Years of The Hour Blue

Known for his provocative theatre and dance works, where nakedness, crude sex and violence have become his trademarks, the Belgian Jan Fabre is also a sculptor, designer and illustrator whose creations have been shown in Venice, Berlin, Budapest and Sao Paulo.

Yasmina Chatila: Egypt Spring...on Manhattan's Upper East Side

Americans needn't travel to Cairo for an Egyptian revolution. They can witness one, in of all places, New York's Upper East Side.

Review: Manet, the Man who Invented Modernity

Patricia Boccadoro on the Manet exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.

People Tell Me I'm White and I Believe Them Auf Deutsch

While the American television comic Stephen Colbert's satirically inverted logic provokes young artists in Europe, the Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates investigates blackness in Latin America in a new PBS series.

Romare Bearden: Collage

Centennial solo show in New York of American artist Roman Bearden’s work focuses exclusively on collage.

A Bright Light En Bref: Basquiat at the Fondation Beyeler

Is the short, hot career and early death of Jean-Michel Basquiat the cause of his celebrity, or is it a diversion making the assessment of his work cliché-driven and shallow? The Fondation Beyeler wades into the debate.

Adrian Piper: A Retrospective, 1965 - 2000 and MEDI(t)Ations on view at The New Museum of Contemporary Art

Piper played a formative role in the emergence of Conceptual art, and an even more crucial role in identity-based art in the 1980s and 1990s, focused on bigotry, stereotyping, and xenophobia. The New Museum of Contemporary Art offers a retrospective on her work in several media.

African Masks: Magical Faces of Africa-- image gallery

Virtual Gallery accompanying the exhibition review of 'Magical Faces of Africa' at the Musee Dapper. Includes a dozen pictures of authentic African masks from the exhibition, each with descriptions and historical background.