Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

For show of her sculptures and paintings at a Fulton Market gallery, she mined "the might in which the Black community built ...

The vendor who sold the banana received only a quarter for the fruit. The buyer of the conceptual work has offered his stand ...

Ms. Tramer’s first table theme was “Helen’s Birthday Party,” a study of a lonely cat lady whose party guests included her ...

Harmony & Dissonance” at the Guggenheim Museum is a mood-lifting, masterpiece-studded show that offers an in-depth look at ...

Using the maps from his daily runs, Duncan McCabe took the Strava art trend to new heights by creating an animated stickman ...

The artist organizes a show of seldom-seen paintings at Gagosian to cast a fresh eye on Balthus’s enigmatic 1933 tableau, ...

Beyond the headline-grabbing sales of the fall auction season, the market tries to soar beyond its two-year slump.

Art is Contagious" is the first museum show for Margery Ryerson, who taught and painted portraits of children at New York ...

I have not a shred of religion in me, but I find enormous satisfaction reading the old lives of the saints, visiting forlorn relics of the monastic age and staring at the quiet, contemplative art of ...

A 74-year-old immigrant who works outside Sotheby’s shares a basement in the Bronx and works 12-hour shifts. He was stunned ...

A cryptocurrency entrepreneur who had bought a piece of conceptual art consisting of a simple banana, duct-taped to a wall, ...