New York Times Arts

An exhibit of hundreds of print ads and television commercials presents cigarettes ads from the 1920s through the early 1950s.

The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum plans to begin work in January on the renovation and expansion of its ornate Fifth Avenue mansion.

For members of Sosolimited, remixing presidential debates is an act both of political engagement and mischief.

Go see these six encased bits of ancient text at the Jewish Museum’s new exhibition, “The Dead Sea Scrolls: Mysteries of the Ancient World,” before it closes on Jan. 4.

A gift of art from New Guinea that was promised to the de Young Museum in San Francisco is in dispute.

Instead of crying over what can’t be built, why not refocus our energies on knocking down the structures that not only fail to bring us joy, but actually bring us down?

Sotheby’s will auction a painting by the Russian avant-garde painter Kazimir Malevich whose ownership was recently restored to the painter’s heirs.

It’s not every day that a painter with a 40-year career gets to feel like a hot young thing, but Mary Heilmann is coping.

The sleek, photo-based, politically incorrect across-the-spectrum art of the British artists Gilbert & George is as hard to love as it is to categorize.

A pair of shows spotlighting the style and influence of Louis Comfort Tiffany feature exceptional lamps as well as displays on how decorative glass and lamps were made.

Josef Koudelka at Aperture Foundation, Stephan Dillemuth and Nils Norman at Reena Spaulings Fine Art, Martha Rosler at Mitchell-Innes & Nash and more.

Selective listings from art critics of The New York Times.

Mr. Hantaï was a highly regarded, famously reclusive French painter whose work explored ideas of absence and silence.

In its latest exhibit, the Museum of the City of New York captures the beginning of the long liaison in fashion and design between Paris and New York.

An Aladdin’s cave of high-end jewelry, glass, silver and all manner of other household collectibles can be found at the latest edition of the International Art and Design Fair, now at the Park Avenue Armory.

Some artists are happy enough just having their work shown at the Whitney Museum, but 37-year-old Corin Hewitt is actually moving in, for three months.

Sothebys’s sale of works from the collection of Edward Peerman Moore, which includes a painting by Edward Hicks, is expected to total $7 million.

This year, Shepard Fairey, a star in the world of street art, has earned a new level of mainstream attention.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art plans to announce that it has received a $45 million cash gift and the promise of $10 million in artworks from Lynda and Stewart Resnick.

Officials in Ostia Antica hope that the decade-long restoration of four dwellings will focus new attention on this once-bustling port west of Rome.