NYTimes Arts

Art Review: In Tribal Dresses, Life Stories, Intricate Labor and Female Bonding
More than 50 dresses are on view in “Identity by Design” at the New York branch of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/arts/design/08iden.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/arts/design/08iden.html" border="0"/></a>

Italy Defends Treasures (and Laws) With a Show
Every statue, vase and archaeological shard on display in “Ruins and the Rebirth of Art in Italy,” a show that opened last week at the Colosseum in Rome, has a story to tell. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/arts/design/08heri.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/arts/design/08heri.html" border="0"/></a>

Exhibition Review | 'The Dead Sea Scrolls': Peering Into the Mystery of Those Enigmatic Fragments
Go see these six encased bits of ancient text at the Jewish Museum’s new exhibition, “The Dead Sea Scrolls: Mysteries of the Ancient World,” before it closes on Jan. 4. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/arts/design/07scrol.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/arts/design/07scrol.html" border="0"/></a>

With Software, Artists Put Yet Another Spin on the Presidential Debates
For members of Sosolimited, remixing presidential debates is an act both of political engagement and mischief. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/arts/design/07deba.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/arts/design/07deba.html" border="0"/></a>

Cooper-Hewitt Is Poised for an Expansion and a Sprucing Up
The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum plans to begin work in January on the renovation and expansion of its ornate Fifth Avenue mansion. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/arts/design/07coop.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/arts/design/07coop.html" border="0"/></a>

Advertising: When Doctors, and Even Santa, Endorsed Tobacco
An exhibit of hundreds of print ads and television commercials presents cigarettes ads from the 1920s through the early 1950s. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/business/media/07adco.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/business/media/07adco.html" border="0"/></a>

A Collection of Tribal Art Is Embroiled in a Modern Family Feud
A gift of art from New Guinea that was promised to the de Young Museum in San Francisco is in dispute. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/arts/design/06gift.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/arts/design/06gift.html" border="0"/></a>

Art: Swimming With the Big Fish at Last
It’s not every day that a painter with a 40-year career gets to feel like a hot young thing, but Mary Heilmann is coping. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/arts/design/05spea.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/arts/design/05spea.html" border="0"/></a>

Arts Review: Tiffany Times Two
A pair of shows spotlighting the style and influence of Louis Comfort Tiffany feature exceptional lamps as well as displays on how decorative glass and lamps were made. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/nyregion/long-island/05artsli.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/nyregion/long-island/05artsli.html" border="0"/></a>

Arts, Briefly: Heirs to Auction Russian Painter’s Work
Sotheby’s will auction a painting by the Russian avant-garde painter Kazimir Malevich whose ownership was recently restored to the painter’s heirs. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/arts/design/04arts-HEIRSTOAUCTI_BRF.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/arts/design/04arts-HEIRSTOAUCTI_BRF.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review | Gilbert & George: Provocative Duo, Naked and Natty
The sleek, photo-based, politically incorrect across-the-spectrum art of the British artists Gilbert & George is as hard to love as it is to categorize. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/arts/design/03gilb.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/arts/design/03gilb.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review | 'Paris/New York': French Taste Meets American Moxie
In its latest exhibit, the Museum of the City of New York captures the beginning of the long liaison in fashion and design between Paris and New York. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/arts/design/03pari.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/arts/design/03pari.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review | The International Art and Design Fair: Classic Modern: 20th-Century Antiques
An Aladdin’s cave of high-end jewelry, glass, silver and all manner of other household collectibles can be found at the latest edition of the International Art and Design Fair, now at the Park Avenue Armory. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/arts/design/03fair.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/arts/design/03fair.html" border="0"/></a>

Inside Art: Artist in Residence, Sort of, at the Whitney
Some artists are happy enough just having their work shown at the Whitney Museum, but 37-year-old Corin Hewitt is actually moving in, for three months. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/arts/design/03voge.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/arts/design/03voge.html" border="0"/></a>

Art in Review
Josef Koudelka at Aperture Foundation, Stephan Dillemuth and Nils Norman at Reena Spaulings Fine Art, Martha Rosler at Mitchell-Innes & Nash and more. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/arts/design/03gall.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/arts/design/03gall.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/2008/10/03/arts/design/03wart.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/arts/design/03wart.html" border="0"/></a>

Simon Hantaï, 85, Reclusive French Painter, Is Dead
Mr. Hantaï was a highly regarded, famously reclusive French painter whose work explored ideas of absence and silence. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/arts/design/03hantai.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/arts/design/03hantai.html" border="0"/></a>

Closer to Mainstream, Still a Bit Rebellious
This year, Shepard Fairey, a star in the world of street art, has earned a new level of mainstream attention. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/02/arts/design/02fair.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/02/arts/design/02fair.html" border="0"/></a>

Archaeologists Unveil Majestic Roman Ruins That Rival Riches of Pompeii
Officials in Ostia Antica hope that the decade-long restoration of four dwellings will focus new attention on this once-bustling port west of Rome. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/01/arts/design/01fres.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/01/arts/design/01fres.html" border="0"/></a>

Margot Gayle, Urban Preservationist and Crusader With Style, Dies at 100
Ms. Gayle marshaled shrewdness, gentility and spunk to save the Victorian cast-iron buildings of New York in a crusade that led to the preservation of historic SoHo. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/nyregion/30gayle.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/nyregion/30gayle.html" border="0"/></a>

Los Angeles Museum Receives Big Boost
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art plans to announce that it has received a $45 million cash gift and the promise of $10 million in artworks from Lynda and Stewart Resnick. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/arts/design/29muse.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/arts/design/29muse.html" border="0"/></a>

Marian Griffiths, Who Led Sculpture Center, Dies at 86
Ms. Griffiths was for two decades the director of the Sculpture Center, transforming it into a dynamic exhibition center that helped draw public attention to the medium. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/arts/design/29griffiths.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/arts/design/29griffiths.html" border="0"/></a>

Arts, Briefly: A Renoir Is Recovered
Italian police have recovered a Renoir painting that was stolen from a private collection 33 years ago, Agence France-Presse reported. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/arts/design/29arts-ARENOIRISREC_BRF.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/arts/design/29arts-ARENOIRISREC_BRF.html" border="0"/></a>

Arts, Briefly: Banksy Works Unsold
Five works by the elusive graffiti artist Banksy and other pieces by street artists failed to sell at an auction in London. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/arts/design/29arts-BANKSYWORKSU_BRF.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/arts/design/29arts-BANKSYWORKSU_BRF.html" border="0"/></a>

Architecture: New York City, Tear Down These Walls
Instead of crying over what can’t be built, why not refocus our energies on knocking down the structures that not only fail to bring us joy, but actually bring us down? <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/arts/design/28ouro.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/arts/design/28ouro.html" border="0"/></a>

Art: The Genius of Little Things
Tara Donovan’s visions are often contained in masses of mass-produced items, with big pieces defined by their details. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/arts/design/28kino.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/arts/design/28kino.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review: Face to Face With Stalinist Horrors
Boris Sveshnikov’s drawings bring us face to face with the horrors of life in a Stalinist labor camp in the 1950s. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/nyregion/new-jersey/28artsnj.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/nyregion/new-jersey/28artsnj.html" border="0"/></a>

Style: The Big Picture
Artist Josiah McElheny tests his own ideas on the Big Bang theory at the Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York City. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/magazine/28Style-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/magazine/28Style-t.html" border="0"/></a>

Arts And Entertainment: A Hawaiian Modernist, by Way of Russia
Architectural models, drawings, site plans and photographs by Vladimir Ossipoff are the subject of an extraordinarily interesting exhibition at the Yale School of Architecture. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/nyregion/connecticut/28artsct.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/nyregion/connecticut/28artsct.html" border="0"/></a>

Fabien Baron: The Art Director as Star
Over the last 20 years, Fabien Baron has revamped five magazines, including Italian Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and, his latest, Interview, where he is also editorial director. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/fashion/28FABIEN.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/fashion/28FABIEN.html" border="0"/></a>

Exhibition Review | Sant Ocean Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History: Diving Into a New World
The Sant Ocean Hall at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History is the largest renovation in the museum’s century-long history. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/27/arts/design/27ocea.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/27/arts/design/27ocea.html" border="0"/></a>

Architecture Review: New Face, Renewed Mission
The redesign of 2 Columbus Circle is not the bold architectural statement that might have justified the destruction of an important piece of New York history. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/arts/design/26desi.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/arts/design/26desi.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review | 'Second Lives': Using Old Materials to Put a New Face on a Museum
The opening shows at the new Museum of Arts and Design resemble an art seminar-cum-food-fight — an amazing cacophony that is by turns dismaying, enervating, infuriating and invigorating. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/arts/design/26live.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/arts/design/26live.html" border="0"/></a>

Milton Regained: A Helluva Party
The Williamsburg Art and Historical Center is celebrating John Milton’s 400th birthday with an exhibition of paintings and sculptures -- and a costume ball. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/books/26milt.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/books/26milt.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review | Catherine Opie: A Retrospective of Many Artists, All of Them One Woman
In her eye-catching studio portraits, Catherine Opie has consistently and brilliantly shown queerness to be the capacious category it is. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/arts/design/26opie.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/arts/design/26opie.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review | Jesper Just: Cinematic Images of Masculine Vulnerability
The Brooklyn Museum offers a fine introduction for viewers unfamiliar with Jesper Just’s films, which usually involve ambiguous, erotically charged relations between two men. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/arts/design/26just.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/arts/design/26just.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review | Susan Meiselas: Lives in a Danger Zone, Captured and Revisited
A sad, disturbing and fascinatingly problematic show at the International Center of Photography celebrates the photographer Susan Meiselas as a tireless champion of the dispossessed. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/arts/design/26meis.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/arts/design/26meis.html" border="0"/></a>

Art in Review
Lorraine O’Grady at Alexander Gray Associates, Nathan Carter at Casey Kaplan, Roe Ethridge at Andrew Kreps and more. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/arts/design/26gall.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/arts/design/26gall.html" border="0"/></a>

Antiques: Lions Gather With Lambs at Christie’s and Sotheby’s
Sothebys’s sale of works from the collection of Edward Peerman Moore, which includes a painting by Edward Hicks, is expected to total $7 million. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/arts/design/26anti.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/arts/design/26anti.html" border="0"/></a>

Inside Art: Modern Drawings Head for Auction
Christie’s Nov. 12 evening auction includes postwar master drawings from the collection of Richard S. Fuld Jr., the longtime chief executive of Lehman Brothers. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/arts/design/26voge.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/arts/design/26voge.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/2008/09/26/arts/design/26wart.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/arts/design/26wart.html" border="0"/></a>

Miroslav Havel, a Glass Master, Is Dead at 86
Mr. Havel was one of a pair of unlikely Czech immigrants to Ireland who together revived the Waterford glass industry after a century’s dormancy. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/business/26havel.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/business/26havel.html" border="0"/></a>

Abroad: Old School Bad Boy’s Messy World
The Francis Bacon retrospective in London at Tate Britain is a landmark, a knockout, and its timing turns out to be nearly perfect. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/arts/design/25abroad.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/arts/design/25abroad.html" border="0"/></a>

Museum Review: Renewed Vantage at Center of Battle
The Gettysburg Cyclorama is returning to public view on Friday after a five-year, $15 million restoration <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/arts/design/25gett.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/25/arts/design/25gett.html" border="0"/></a>

Architecture Review: A Building That Blooms and Grows, Balancing Nature and Civilization
If you want reaffirmation that human history is an upward spiral rather than a descent into darkness, head to the new California Academy of Sciences, in Golden Gate Park, which opens on Saturday. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/arts/design/24acad.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/arts/design/24acad.html" border="0"/></a>

Guggenheim Chooses a Curator, Not a Showman
The Guggenheim named Richard Armstrong of the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh as its next director. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/arts/design/24muse.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/arts/design/24muse.html" border="0"/></a>

Art: With Politics in the Air, a Freedom Free-for-All Comes to Town
“Democracy in America: The National Campaign” is a nonpartisan, nonelectoral but intensely political convention-as-art-exhibition. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/arts/design/23demo.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/arts/design/23demo.html" border="0"/></a>

Art and Science, Virtual and Real, Under One Big Roof
Eight years and $200 million in the making, the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center aims to be a technological pleasure dome for the mind and senses. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/science/23troy.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/science/23troy.html" border="0"/></a>

Exhibition Review: All About Mr. Elephant, in His Becoming Green Suit
“Drawing Babar: Early Drafts and Watercolors,” at the Morgan Library & Museum, is a compact, elegant exhibition. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/arts/design/22baba.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/arts/design/22baba.html" border="0"/></a>

Art: Home Views, Bound by Ice or Leather
Photographing her friends in royal style, Catherine Opie sought to dignify a subculture. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/arts/design/21shee.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/arts/design/21shee.html" border="0"/></a>

Art: After the Roar of the Crowd, an Auction Post-Mortem
The reaction to the auction has run the gamut from serves-you-right righteousness directed at the art world, to the crowning of Damien Hirst as superartist and speaker of deep truths. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/20/arts/design/20hirs.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/20/arts/design/20hirs.html" border="0"/></a>

Museum Review: Kids, Can You Say ‘Cultural Diversity’?
Exuberance, surprise and a playful approach to knowledge can be found at the newly renovated Brooklyn Children’s Museum. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/arts/design/19chil.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/arts/design/19chil.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review | Van Gogh: Nocturnal van Gogh, Illuminating the Darkness
The show of paintings, drawings and letters by Vincent van Gogh at the Museum of Modern Art is small and quirky: it is an anti-blockbuster. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/arts/design/19gogh.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/arts/design/19gogh.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review | Giorgio Morandi: All That Life Contains, Contained
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s show of Morandi’s still lifes and landscapes is something that anyone in love with painting and its very specific poetry will want to see. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/arts/design/19mora.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/arts/design/19mora.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review | 'America and the Tintype': Rough-Hewn Images for Rough-Hewn Times
The tintypes at the International Center of Photography form a group portrait of Americans struggling to adapt to the rapidly shifting social and economic conditions during the four decades after the Civil War. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/arts/design/19tint.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/arts/design/19tint.html" border="0"/></a>

Inside Art: Estate Troves on the Block
Death is always a good thing for auction houses, and this season Christie’s was able to secure two major estates: that of Rita K. Hillman and that of Alice Lawrence. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/arts/design/19voge.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/arts/design/19voge.html" border="0"/></a>

Art | The Week Ahead
Art. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/arts/design/06weekart.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/arts/design/06weekart.html" border="0"/></a>