Robin Cembalest

Laurie Simmons, Jerry Saltz, Xu Bing, and other art insiders took shelf portraits for us

To get to the top, you have to wear the right clothes

As the morphine craze gripped Paris, a new archetype of angry, scary women emerged in French prints. Collectors loved them

Using the Drawing Center's gallery space, a tricked-out Xbox Kinect, and the exaggerated rhythmic stylings of expert dancers and musicians, Rashaad Newsome created a template for sculptures like no…

Snapshots of creators and their creations at the Art Show, the Armory Show, and Volta

The color that seems softest can often speak most loudly

With five New York art spaces showing maps, charts, and diagrams, it's a great moment for flowchart art

The Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon was an international initiative to bring women's voices to the online encyclopedia--as editors and as subjects

A guide to weird and wild contemporary-art quilts by conceptualists, code-breakers, feminists, fashionistas, Afrofuturists, and street artists

Masterworks, manuscripts, mosaics, royal jewels, devotional sculpture, and blinged-out arms and armor feature in exhibitions devoted to the arts of Byzantium, Buddhism, Islam, West Africa, the…