Winslow Homer

Documenting the recovery of a Chinese spy balloon off South Carolina, a Navy photographer produced some spectacular images with surprising art-historical undercurrents.

This was a year whose high points included an adult-feeling Whitney Biennial, a major survey of contemporary Puerto Rican art, and one of the great big-little exhibitions of all time.

In Homosassa, a tiny town along Florida’s Gulf Coast, the famed artist created some of his most luminous watercolors, capturing an area rich in aquatic life.

A show of masterworks at the Met snaps into sharp focus the great American artist’s contemporary relevance.

Desert X, as the show is to be called, will invite artists to respond to the California desert’s history, geology or mythology, or otherwise to create site-specific works.

The Museum of Modern Art plans to mount an exhibition of Picasso sculptures, with substantial loans from the Picasso Museum in Paris.

Censured for having auctioned off a painting to pay its bills, the Delaware Art Museum nonetheless plans to sell even more works.

“Winslow Homer: Making Art, Making History,” is really two narratives: that of Homer’s artistry, and the story of two people who collected his art, Sterling and Francine Clark.

New art books look at Winslow Homer in Maine, Mati Klarwein’s album covers, Joel Sternfeld photographs, the gaudy romanticism of Gustav Klimt and the Abstract-Expressionist Alps of Robert Motherwell.