At the Wrightwood 659 gallery in Chicago, an expansive, century-spanning show charts the period of art when “homosexuality” was a new concept.

If you want to feel the charge of excitement that great art — no imaginative limits — and new thinking about it can bring, head to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s redesigned and reconceived ...

Some of the founders of New Perspectives Art Partners have known each other for decades. Caption (L to R): Brett Gorvy, Philip Hoffman, Ed Dolman, Patti Wong, Alex Dolman.

The painter Derrick Adams, 55, came of age in New York in the late 1990s, at a time when artists of color were often relegated to showing their work in off-the-grid spaces like coffee shops, or ...