Given this checkered history, in which so many gifted people have said so many foolish things about abstract art—and we haven’t even mentioned the openly declared enemies of abstraction—why does one ...

Award-winning illustrator Christoph Niemann, documents city life in this collection of charmingly inventive illustrations, culled from his visual blog posts for the New York Times.

These shows confirm Willis’s preeminence even while his work already resides at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, and the Guggenheim Museum.