The Times’s art critics select some of their favorite art books and books related to art of the year.
Kevin Beasley confronts King Cotton’s legacy in his solo museum show.
Would an appearance at Art Basel Miami Beach help ten women scale the barriers of rejection or aesthetic misunderstanding they found in Georgia?
Jean Curran’s dye-transfer prints from film frames, and a stop-time movie by Catherine Opie, continue the 60-year love affair with Hitchcock’s “Vertigo.”
The art critics of The New York Times tell you what rocked their worlds this year: notable art events, works in museums and galleries, emerging artists and how they found beauty in unexpected places.
Ronald Ollie, a retired mechanical engineer, and his wife, Monique, a project manager at Johnson & Johnson, met at the National Black Fine Art Show.
Denise Scott Brown’s photographs of Las Vegas; Kayode Ojo’s color prints and sculptures; Anna Maria Maiolino’s “poetic wanderings”; and Lyle Ashton Harris’s portraits.
Against the backdrop of a skidding stock market, declining endowments and a cooling of luxury real-estate values, another private museum announced its birth.
Projects supported by this round of grants include work to preserve the “auditory signatures” of historic sites and a timeline of African-American music.
Mr. Hollander persuaded Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell and other Abstract Expressionists to try their hands at lithography at his Manhattan workshop. Their proofs became some of his best work.