Embracing myriad forms of experimental art and criticism in the 1970s and ’80s, Scott Burton brought a precise yet idiosyncratic intelligence to every project he undertook.

I GREW UP IN THE D.C. suburbs, in Maryland. My mother worked for the government, and my dad’s business often dealt with government.

A posthumous traveling retrospective confirms the sculptor’s role in boosting the status of ceramics over the past five decades.

A current retrospective shifts focus to the work— in a surprising range of mediums—that Jay DeFeo created before and after her best-known painting.

In the early 1980s, Art in America hosted a debate on emerging Neo-Expressionist art. Now, after three contentious decades, history seems to have declared a winner. But don’t be too sure.