The paintings of Kenyan artist Michael Armitage present a particularly resonant response to the expanded, repackaged, and redefined offerings at the reopened MoMA.

Thomas Micchelli
Thomas Micchelli is an artist and writer.
The Gnarly, Sassy Minimalism of Tom Doyle
Doyle’s sculpture offers an opportunity to contemplate the beauty of pure form, but without a hint of nostalgia.
Strokes of Conflict
The exhibition Wars at David Nolan evokes political and personal violence as facts of modern life.
An Unlikely Matchup of Paper and Steel
An odd pairing of drawings by Eva Hesse and sculptures by John Chamberlain sets up unintended comparisons between two artists who otherwise seem to share only an ingrained rebelliousness.
Piero Manzoni and the Reinvention of Art
Manzoni’s work can be viewed as slight and Herculean, tragic and buoyant, mystical and materialist, minimal and baroque.
Leonardo and His Double
Leonardo da Vinci would have found a deep connection to the ostracism of Saint Jerome at the hands of the envious and the hypocritical.
The Searing Beauty of Nancy Spero
With their free interplay of image and text, Spero’s Codex Artaud and the even more ambitious Notes in Time are nothing less than a personal redefinition of the nature and meaning of visual art.
Visions of Home, from Dream Memories to Trump Country
The disparity between what we expect from domesticity and what lurks beneath the surface generates a finely wrought tension that coils throughout this show.
Lucian Freud’s Mountains of Flesh
Freud’s forlorn, isolated figures and grotty interiors resonate appallingly with the steep cultural and social decline fated by Brexit, if it ever takes effect.
Escaping the Neo-Conceptualist Bubble
An exhibition that questions whether art can be based on formulas without becoming formulaic.
The Colors of the Sixties
Spilling Over: Painting in the 1960s at the Whitney Museum expands the common understanding of a pivot point in American art, while basking unapologetically in the pure pleasure of looking.