In Janet McKenzie's "The Holy Family" the unknown reality of first-century peasants has been transposed into another key.

A new show of American paintings at the Met seeks to find clues to shifts in American self-understanding.

R. Crumb’s illustration of the Book of Genesis does not gloss over anything. It’s all here in graphic detail.

John LaFarge anticipated the art of the Impressionists in his simplified landscapes and exquisitely painted flower studies.

The Russian-born artist believed his time was one of spiritual crisis. “The nightmare of materialism…[has] turned life into an evil, senseless game.”