The Museum With a Bulldozer’s Heart

Madeline Arakawa Gins, Visionary Architect, Dies at 72

By MARGALIT FOX

Ms. Gins and her husband, the artist Arakawa, advanced theories of design they believed could make mortality a thing of the past.

Portraits From Clips and Bytes

By HILARIE M. SHEETS

The artist R. Luke DuBois takes a data-mining approach to his work, drawing on Google searches and surveillance technology for video and graphics pieces.

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Art Review

Shifting His Tectonic Plates

By MARTHA SCHWENDENER

In his show “New Sculpture,” at the Gagosian Gallery, Richard Serra continues along the road that emerged from the hugely successful “Torqued Ellipses” of the ’90s, but also circles back to his earlier oeuvre.

Art Review

Beyond Beefcake in the Work of a Gay Pioneer

By KEN JOHNSON

“Devotion,” an exhibition at New York University’s 80WSE, shows a surprising range in the work by Bob Mizer, known for his erotic photographs of men.

Critic’s Notebook

The Fascination of the Unfinished

By ROBERTA SMITH

The Metropolitan Museum is dotted with paintings that have been left incomplete, giving viewers hints into the impulses behind the genius of Degas, Bassano, Greuze, Rembrandt and others.

Diligence Promised in Studying Looted Art

By MELISSA EDDY

Ingeborg Berggreen-Merkel, head of a task force on Nazi-looted art, says revealing a timetable would create pressure.

For Fans of Photographer, a Window of Opportunity

By PATRICIA COHEN

The photographer Larry Clark, whose portraits can command thousands of dollars, is selling some of his smaller prints for $100 each.

Ambitious Redesign of MoMA Doesn’t Spare a Notable Neighbor

By ROBIN POGREBIN

The Museum of Modern Art unveiled a sweeping redesign of its Midtown building and reaffirmed its intention to demolish the former American Folk Art Museum.

Exhibition Traces Bauhaus Luminary’s Struggle With His Past

By ALICE RAWSTHORN

An exhibition in Berlin follows the trajectory of the graphic artist Herbert Bayer, who in the 1930s created Nazi propaganda, though he claimed to be apolitical.