The painter Glenn Brown keeps good company. His London studio is in Rochelle School, Shoreditch, built in 1895 and now chicly refurbished, housing a fashionable restaurant, studios and spaces for artists, publishers, and fashion and graphic designers.

A current exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art examines the early work of 30 artists constituting the last major art movement of the 20th century.

Braving unpredictable New York winter weather and an even more unstable economic climate, some 200 galleries from around the world gathered on Hudson River Piers 92 and 94 at 52 St., to help launch New York's spring art season with the Armory Show, March 4-8.

Like America’s new president, street artist and designer Shepard Fairey has used grassroots action to great effect. A 20-year survey at the Boston ICA traces his creative (r)evolution.

On view through April 9th at Perry Rubenstein Gallery, the lush paintings in Kamrooz Aram’s current exhibition draw on a global range of imagery both sacred and profane, as well as a deep well of dream-born hybrids. In works that teem with decorative and narrative detail, the Iranian-born artist traces affinities between his heritage and global visual culture.