NYTimes Arts

Art: A Man Who Loves Big Museums
In Chicago, a passionate advocate of the international trade of antiquities. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/arts/design/18fink.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/arts/design/18fink.html" border="0"/></a>

The Medium: Pixels at an Exhibition
Art, mystery and the meaning of YouTube. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/magazine/18wwln-medium-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/magazine/18wwln-medium-t.html" border="0"/></a>

Matter: Hedging Their Bets
To keep up with the times, a venerable English antiques company goes back to its roots. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/magazine/18style-matter-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/magazine/18style-matter-t.html" border="0"/></a>

Exhibition Review: Rethinking Locally: New Jersey Opens Big Museum Doors Again
The New Jersey State Museum’s main building reopens in Trenton on Saturday after four years of renovation, but appeals for celebration are premature. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/17/arts/design/17muse.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/17/arts/design/17muse.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review: Unwrapping the Secrets of Ordinary Objects
“Here’s the Thing: The Single Object Still Life” is a visually and philosophically engaging exhibition at the Katonah Museum of Art. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/17/arts/design/17kato.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/17/arts/design/17kato.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review: When Artworks Collide
“Who’s Afraid of Jasper Johns?,” a group show at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in Chelsea, is the latest proof that you don’t have to be a museum to shake things up. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/arts/design/16shaf.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/arts/design/16shaf.html" border="0"/></a>

Exhibition Review | 'The Horse': Man’s Best Friend, Hoofed Department
Without horses, where would we be? The answer is revealed in a sprawling, charming and illuminating exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/arts/design/16hors.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/arts/design/16hors.html" border="0"/></a>

Art: Rauschenberg Got a Lot From the City and Left a Lot Behind
Here’s what’s on view right now and what will be brought out of storage or rearranged to honor Robert Rauschenberg in the coming weeks. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/arts/design/16raus.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/arts/design/16raus.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review: From Around the Globe, a Mustering of the Tribes
The New York International Tribal & Textile Arts Show assembles a forceful, entrancing ensemble of tribal art from Africa, Oceania, Asia and North and South America. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/arts/design/16trib.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/arts/design/16trib.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review | 'Polaroids: Mapplethorpe': Spontaneity Was the Medium and the Message
The beloved instant photograph could not have hoped for a better sendoff than the Whitney Museum’s exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe’s Polaroids. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/arts/design/16mapp.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/arts/design/16mapp.html" border="0"/></a>

Inside Art: Bacon’s ‘Dyer’ Expected to Attract Big Numbers
At Sotheby’s contemporary-art auction in London, one of the star paintings will be a portrait of George Dyer, Francis Bacon’s companion, who committed suicide in 1971. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/arts/design/16voge.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/arts/design/16voge.html" border="0"/></a>

Antiques: Tending to the Legacy of a Deco Master
Jules Leleu never achieved the international fame of other 20th-century French designers, but he was just as successful and probably more prolific. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/arts/design/16anti.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/arts/design/16anti.html" border="0"/></a>

Art in Review
The New York Photo Festival in Dumbo, Brooklyn, Elizabeth Peyton at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise and Josephine Meckseper at Elizabeth Dee Gallery. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/arts/design/16gall.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/arts/design/16gall.html" border="0"/></a>

After a Hectic Week, a Partylike Evening at Phillips de Pury Brings in $59 Million
The sum seemed small compared with Sotheby’s and Christie’s totals on Tuesday. But it was a respectable result, and of the 64 works up for sale, only 9 failed to sell. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/nyregion/16auction.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/nyregion/16auction.html" border="0"/></a>

Museum and Gallery Listings
Selective listings from art critics of The New York Times. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/arts/design/16wart.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/arts/design/16wart.html" border="0"/></a>

Bacon Triptych Auctioned for Record $86 Million
A 1976 triptych by Francis Bacon brought $86.3 million on Wednesday night at Sotheby’s, becoming the most expensive work of contemporary art ever sold at auction. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/15/arts/design/15auction.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/15/arts/design/15auction.html" border="0"/></a>

Robert Rauschenberg, American Artist, Dies at 82
Mr. Rauschenberg, who time and again reshaped art in the 20th century, defied the traditional idea that an artist stick to one medium or style. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/arts/design/14rauschenberg.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/arts/design/14rauschenberg.html" border="0"/></a>

Dance: Rauschenberg and Dance, Partners for Life
Something inherently theatrical about him prompted Robert Rauschenberg to his boldest, freshest conceptions on stage. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/arts/dance/14coll.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/arts/dance/14coll.html" border="0"/></a>

Weekend in New York | Jewish Arts: Loosen Your Borscht Belt and Raise Your Highbrows
The city’s Jewish population defies definition, from secular to Orthodox, from the Upper West Side to Borough Park, from Ashkenazi to Sephardic. The art scene is hardly less diverse. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/travel/18weekend.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/travel/18weekend.html" border="0"/></a>

At Christie’s, Bidding Is Strong for Even a House
At Christie’s, bidders paid top dollar for everything from an abstract canvas by Mark Rothko to a painting of a naked fat woman by Lucian Freud. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/nyregion/14auction.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/nyregion/14auction.html" border="0"/></a>

Architecture: Redesigning a Building to Preserve Peace in the Neighborhood
Should the plan for the Parke-Bernet Gallery building be approved, it would only underscore the bizarre thinking behind decisions governing historic landmark cases today. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/arts/design/14fost.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/arts/design/14fost.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review: An Artist’s Concocted World, Starring Himself, Is Too True to Be Real
“Mike’s World: Michael Smith & Joshua White (and other collaborators)” is a terrifically entertaining and philosophically compelling survey, at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, of Mr. Smith’s 30-year career. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/13/arts/design/13ica.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/13/arts/design/13ica.html" border="0"/></a>

Art: How to Think Like a Surreal Cartoonist
In her two-day writer’s workshop, Lynda Barry sings, tells jokes, acts out characters and even dances a creditably sensual hula. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/arts/design/11kino.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/arts/design/11kino.html" border="0"/></a>

At a Haven for Creative Souls, a Prolific Talent Is Affirmed
An eccentric, lost talent was revived at the Chelsea Hotel when the lives of two artists, a generation apart, intersected. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/nyregion/11chelsea.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/nyregion/11chelsea.html" border="0"/></a>

Exhibition Review: Mystics and Militants: A Look at the Rastafari Kingdom
“Discovering Rastafari!” at the Smithsonian’s Natural History museum reveals far more about Rastafarian culture than familiar symbols and the show’s modest size might suggest. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/arts/design/10rast.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/arts/design/10rast.html" border="0"/></a>

Arts, Briefly: Design Change Sought for King Memorial
The United States Commission of Fine Arts has asked the creators of a sculpture of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for the Washington Mall to change it. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/arts/design/10arts-DESIGNCHANGE_BRF.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/arts/design/10arts-DESIGNCHANGE_BRF.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review | 'Superheroes': Power Dressing
The Metropolitan Museum offers a playful look at comic book costumes and their influence on radical haute couture. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/arts/design/09cost.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/arts/design/09cost.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review | 'Life on Mars': An Alien Sighting on Planet Pittsburgh
Lately, it seems, biennial exhibitions don’t do much except sit there, looking good and offending no one. The 55th Carnegie International is no exception. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/arts/design/09carn.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/arts/design/09carn.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review | The International Fine Art Fair: Contemporary May be Hot, but Here the Focus Is on Comfort
The International Fine Art Fair at the Park Avenue Armory, now in its 15th year, is a good place to find highly decorative examples of familiar styles. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/arts/design/09armo.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/arts/design/09armo.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review | 'Double Album': Two Boys Past Adolescence Still Just Being Boys
The New Museum’s intermittently interesting but ultimately disappointing exhibit features two artists in their 40s who share a fascination with male adolescence. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/arts/design/09albu.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/arts/design/09albu.html" border="0"/></a>

Inside Art: Met’s Nautical Mural Has a Return Voyage
A grand Art Deco mural is made whole for the first time since the Normandie sank. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/arts/design/09voge.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/arts/design/09voge.html" border="0"/></a>

Art in Review
Anton Kannemeyer at Jack Shainman, Cornelius Quabeck at Friedrich Petzel Gallery, Amy Bessone at Salon 94 and more. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/arts/design/09gall.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/arts/design/09gall.html" border="0"/></a>

Antiques: Rococo Eye-Openers at Two Auction Houses
This month both Christie’s and Sotheby’s are showing a few spectacular Rococo antiques that are not to be missed. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/arts/design/09anti.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/arts/design/09anti.html" border="0"/></a>

Museum and Gallery Listings
Selective listings from art critics of The New York Times. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/arts/design/09WART.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/arts/design/09WART.html" border="0"/></a>

Victor Christ-Janer, Modernist Architect, Dies at 92
Mr. Christ-Janer was a member of a group of influential architects who built Modernist homes and offices in New Canaan, Conn. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/08/arts/design/08christ-janer.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/08/arts/design/08christ-janer.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review | Fausto Melotti: Italian Sculptor Attuned to the Harmonic Occupation of Space
Fausto Melotti’s work defies convention and unites disparate strains of 20th-century Italian art. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/08/arts/design/08melo.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/08/arts/design/08melo.html" border="0"/></a>

Serra’s Monumental Vision, Vertical Edition
France is making a fuss this week over Richard Serra, the 68-year-old American bantamweight who fashions elegant, gargantuan art out of steel. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/arts/design/07serr.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/arts/design/07serr.html" border="0"/></a>

An Auction of New Chinese Art Leaves Disjointed Noses in Its Wake
The sale of some 200 works by some of China’s hottest names has stirred indignation among many of the artists and their dealers and some curators. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/arts/design/07coll.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/arts/design/07coll.html" border="0"/></a>

Abroad: Simmering Anti-Semitism Mars a Vibrant Hungary
A more conspicuous Jewish culture meets open hatred in Budapest. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/arts/design/07anti.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/arts/design/07anti.html" border="0"/></a>

Record Price for Monet at Auction
An 1873 canvas by Monet of a riverbank landscape with two trains atop a railway bridge sold for $41.4 million at Christie’s. It was a record price for the artist. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/arts/design/06cnd-auction.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/arts/design/06cnd-auction.html" border="0"/></a>

Arts, Briefly: Jane Jacobs Honorees Are Chosen
Jane Jacobs Medals and $100,000 each will be awarded to Peggy Shepard and Alexie Torres-Fleming. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/arts/design/07arts-JANEJACOBSHO_BRF.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/arts/design/07arts-JANEJACOBSHO_BRF.html" border="0"/></a>

Ted Key, 95, Creator of ‘Hazel’ Cartoon, Is Dead
Mr. Key’s cartoon creation was an independent-minded, impertinent maid who came to be known as Hazel, a name that became synonymous with live-in housekeepers. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/arts/design/06key.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/arts/design/06key.html" border="0"/></a>

Art: For Sale: Art and Optimism
Despite increasing anxiety over the economy, sales estimates at the auction houses are more robust than ever. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/arts/design/04voge.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/arts/design/04voge.html" border="0"/></a>

Art: This Is His Life: A Blue Whale and Hello Kitty
Boyish wizardry — rather than the acts of rebellion for which he is best known — is what now most interests the artist Tom Sachs. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/arts/design/04shee.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/arts/design/04shee.html" border="0"/></a>

Domains | Andrew Stanton: An Animated Life
Andrew Stanton, the Oscar-winning director and writer of “Finding Nemo,” “A Bug’s Life” and the coming “Wall-E,” lives outside San Francisco in a 3,500-square-foot “neobungalow” style house. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/magazine/04wwln-domains-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/magazine/04wwln-domains-t.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review | 'Action/Abstraction': Rivalry Played Out on Canvas and Page
This exceedingly handsome show features works by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Barnett Newman. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/arts/design/02acti.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/arts/design/02acti.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review | Philip Guston: Primal Instincts Hooked to an Art Against Artifice
The Morgan Library & Museum offers a spellbinding survey of Philip Guston’s drawings. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/arts/design/02gust.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/arts/design/02gust.html" border="0"/></a>

Art in Review
Mary Cassatt at Adelson Galleries, Gary Panter at Clementine, Mel Bochner at Peter Freeman Inc. and more. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/arts/design/02gall.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/arts/design/02gall.html" border="0"/></a>

Inside Art: Sampling a Lifetime of Eclectic Collecting
A sampling of an eccentric collector’s collection will be auctioned on July 9 at Sotheby’s in London. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/arts/design/02voge.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/arts/design/02voge.html" border="0"/></a>

Antiques: An Architect’s Eye Reflected in Silver
A show of metalworks at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, covers work by 37 architects. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/arts/design/02anti.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/arts/design/02anti.html" border="0"/></a>

Museum and Gallery Listings
ART. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/arts/design/02wART.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/02/arts/design/02wART.html" border="0"/></a>

Architecture: Whitney’s Downtown Sanctuary
Optimism is in the air again at the Whitney Museum of American Art, which has just released a preliminary design by the Italian architect Renzo Piano for its proposed satellite museum downtown. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/arts/design/01whit.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/arts/design/01whit.html" border="0"/></a>

Design Notebook: In Inner Mongolia, Pushing Architecture’s Outer Limits
Architecture firms from 27 countries were recently commissioned to design luxury homes in the Chinese desert region of Inner Mongolia. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/garden/01mongolia.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/garden/01mongolia.html" border="0"/></a>

Amid Asian Art Boom, Manhattan Gallery to Open Branch in Beijing
It was only a matter of time before a major Manhattan art gallery announced plans to put down roots in Beijing. The first to do so is PaceWildenstein, which this summer will open Pace Beijing. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/29/arts/design/29pace.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/29/arts/design/29pace.html" border="0"/></a>

Art: Cover Story: The King of Visceral Design
A new exhibition honors George Lois, the man who gave Esquire magazine a distinctive look to match its attitude. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/arts/design/27mcgr.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/arts/design/27mcgr.html" border="0"/></a>

Art: At the Ready When Artists Think Big
Jeff Koons might imagine a gigantic balloon dog, but it’s Carlson & Company that actually brings the stainless-steel beast into being. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/arts/design/27fink.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/arts/design/27fink.html" border="0"/></a>

Style: Green With Envy
Eco-fabulous and no apologies. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/magazine/27Style-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/magazine/27Style-t.html" border="0"/></a>

The Medium: Sepia No More
Forget the art-school aesthetic. Photo-sharing Web sites have their own ideas about beauty. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/magazine/27wwln-medium-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/magazine/27wwln-medium-t.html" border="0"/></a>

What Darwin Saw Out Back
The New York Botanical Garden is replicating his work and experiments in a stunning, multipart exhibition called “Darwin’s Garden: An Evolutionary Adventure.” <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/arts/design/25darw.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/arts/design/25darw.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review | Asa Ames: Filling in the Contours of a Surprising Golden Age
Three-dimensional wood portraits by a little-known American sculptor form a stunning little show at the American Folk Art Museum. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/arts/design/25ames.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/arts/design/25ames.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review: Hair-Raising Convergence of the Mystical and the Mundane
Still-life paintings, portraits, scenes from the lives of saints and biblical images form a rich, uneven stew of a show at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/arts/design/25grec.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/arts/design/25grec.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review | 'New York Cool': Looking Past the Cliché to See a Bit of the Edge
A new show at the Grey Art Gallery subjects the late ’50s and early ’60s — a period normally seen as a transitional phase between Abstract Expressionism and Pop, Pollock and Warhol — to intense scrutiny. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/arts/design/25cool.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/arts/design/25cool.html" border="0"/></a>

Inside Art: Tamayo’s ‘Trovador’ Is Again Up for Sale
The financially troubled Randolph College is offering one of its paintings by the Mexican master Rufino Tamayo for sale on May 28 at Christie’s in New York. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/arts/design/25voge.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/arts/design/25voge.html" border="0"/></a>

Antiques: Making Their Way Back to the Garden
The Antique Garden and Furniture Show and Sale in the New York Botanical Garden this weekend will feature works from Louisiana to Jakarta, Indonesia. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/arts/design/25anti.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/arts/design/25anti.html" border="0"/></a>

Art in Review
“Subtraction” at Deitch Projects, Peter Coffin at Andrew Kreps Gallery, David Claerbout at Yvon Lambert Gallery and more. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/arts/design/25gall.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/arts/design/25gall.html" border="0"/></a>

Museum and Gallery Listings
Selective listings from art critics of The New York Times. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/arts/design/25wart.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/arts/design/25wart.html" border="0"/></a>

Philadelphia Raises Enough Money to Retain a Masterpiece by Eakins
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts have now managed to raise the entire $68 million needed to keep an Eakins masterpiece, “The Gross Clinic,” in Philadelphia. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/24/arts/design/24gros.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/24/arts/design/24gros.html" border="0"/></a>

Design Notebook: Survivalist Spirit at the Milan Furniture Fair
Designers at the Milan Furniture Fair explored how they can help us navigate recession, environmental crisis and design’s neurosis about its role in a saturated consumer culture. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/24/garden/24milan.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/24/garden/24milan.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review: A Panoramic Backdrop for Meaning and Mischief
The Cantor Roof Garden at the Metropolitan Museum of Art proves to be an inhospitable site for Jeff Koons’s enlarged sculptures, which are currently on display. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/22/arts/design/22koon.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/22/arts/design/22koon.html" border="0"/></a>

Well: Pain as an Art Form
From Frida Kahlo to the Pain Exhibit, artists paint, draw and sculpt to express their pain. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/22/pain-as-an-art-form/index.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/22/pain-as-an-art-form/index.html" border="0"/></a>

Art: You Bet Your Tintype, Buckaroo
A Texan inspired by his roots uses a style of early photography to portray the roughhewn cowpunchers of the West. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/arts/design/20kenn.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/arts/design/20kenn.html" border="0"/></a>

Close Reading: Now You See It, Now You Don’t
Developers have become magicians in the way they tailor architectural renderings for public consumption. Case in point: the design for the West Side railyards. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/arts/design/20ouro.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/arts/design/20ouro.html" border="0"/></a>