Beginning in the early years of the 1900s, America, land of purple mountain majesties and fruited plain, saw the development of a different kind of landscape--a world of urban restlessness, regeneration, struggle and optimism. That transformation is examined in all its varied guises in "Portrait of a City: A Century of American Photography," an exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London through Oct. 4. Featuring era-defining photographers of the 20th century--Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Mary Ellen Mark, Diane Arbus, Saul Leiter, and Richard Avedon, among others--the exhibition traces both the construction of the modern urban environment and the language of photography.

If you’ve been looking for an excuse to step inside the former Whitney Breuer Building since Sotheby's New York took it over, the time is now. Botero in New York—curated by Anna Di Stasi, Global Head of Latin American Art—gathers roughly 37 rare, early paintings and several small sculptures made by Fernando Botero (1932-2023) between 1960 and 1973, the years during which the Colombian master lived, struggled, and painted in the Big Apple. And it comes in t...