Adrian Piper’s art plays with identity and confronts defensiveness.

St. Petersburg's Street Art Museum, housed in a working factory, negotiates contemporary art, Stalinist kitsch, and potent dissent.

Can a new gallery revive a fading art world star?

Writing was difficult for the author; drawing was joyful

Against the cult of novelty

Jasper Johns’s work does have a certain fidgety elegance. But his effects are so drearily localized that the refinements close down a picture instead of pulling us into a world that has an integrity all its own.

From 1960, a look at how the famous painter depicted relationships between the sexes.