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Reality Leaves a Fingerprint on the Biennial
By CAROL VOGEL
In these recessionary times, the 2010 edition of the Whitney Biennial will be smaller than it has been in recent years, with just 55 artists.
From “The Red Book” by C. G. Jung (W. W. Norton & Company), via Rubin Museum of Art
An image on display in a new exhibition of work by Carl G. Jung at the Rubin Museum of Art.
A new exhibition at the Rubin Museum of Art offers a public look at a private chronicle the psychologist Carl G. Jung kept for 16 years in the early 20th century.
An Appraisal
A Populist Museum Chief With a Sense of Wonder
By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN
Thomas Hoving, the former director of the Metropolitan Museum who died on Thursday, wanted people to feel that same outsize thrill he felt standing in front of a picture.
In the Arts, Bigger Buildings May Not Be Better
By ROBIN POGREBIN
Many poured millions into building larger, flashier spaces in recent years, but critics wonder if it ever made sense.
Annie Leibovitz Tries to Regain Financial Footing
By ALLEN SALKIN
Annie Leibovitz is selling limited editions and weighing book deals in an effort to regain control of her homes and the copyrights to her work.
Art Review | '30 Seconds Off an Inch'
A Beating Heart of Social Import
By ROBERTA SMITH
The Studio Museum in Harlem’s show asks viewers to consider the ways in which social meaning is embedded formally within works of art.
Thomas Hoving, Remaker of the Met, Dies at 78
By RANDY KENNEDY
Mr. Hoving transformed the Metropolitan Museum of Art during his tumultuous decade-long tenure as director.
Art Deco Furniture Designs That Jazzed Up an Age
By ROBERTA SMITH
Passing through the array of Art Deco furnishings at the Metropolitan Museum can make visions of gray fox wraps, diamond-studded cigarette holders and Josephine Baker dance in your head.
Art Review | Anne Truitt
Where Ancient and Future Intersect
By KEN JOHNSON
In a splendid retrospective at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Anne Truitt’s sculptures resonate poetically on multiple levels.
Making a Name for Himself, With Just 3 Letters
By COREY KILGANNON
B.N.E., a surreptitious graffiti writer, painter and “sticker,” is the focus of an exhibition sponsored by an ad agency.
A Record for Rembrandt
By CAROL VOGEL; Compiled by JULIE BLOOM
A Rembrandt portrait that had been hidden in a private collection for nearly 40 years sold at Christie’s in London on Tuesday evening for $33.2 million.
New Prize to Honor Artists Under 35
By CAROL VOGEL
A new $100,000 prize for artists under the age of 35 is being announced on Tuesday by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation.
Basics
The Circular Logic of the Universe
By NATALIE ANGIER
Celebrating a shape, from Kandinsky to the cosmos.
Tweaking the Big-Money Art World on Its Own Turf
By DAMIEN CAVE
William Powhida stands out at Art Basel Miami Beach as an artist who takes on the establishment.
French Museums Open
By MAÏA DE LA BAUME; Compiled by RACHEL LEE HARRIS
The best-known museums in France were open on Sunday after a four-day strike.
Italian Police Seize Art
Compiled by RACHEL LEE HARRIS
Italian authorities have seized 19 art works belonging to Calisto Tanzi, founder of the Italian dairy company Parmalat, which collapsed in 2003, BBC News reported.
A Rembrandt Identity Crisis
By JORI FINKEL
The new exhibition at the Getty Museum lets viewers try their hands at determining authorship by pairing works by Rembrandt with those by his strongest students.
Punctuating Corporate Identity
By ALICE RAWSTHORN
In an effort to distinguish themselves and to keep their brands identifiable across the print and digital worlds, companies are getting creative with their logos.
'Who Shot Rock and Roll'
By GAIL BUCKLAND
Reviewed by ELSA DIXLER
Gail Buckland wants us to see the work of music photographers accepted as art in its own right.
'Dear James: Letters to a Young Illustrator'
By R. O. BLECHMAN
Reviewed by SARAH BOXER
With these plainspoken, charming “letters,” the renowned illustrator counsels an imaginary pen pal in his trade.
'Posing Beauty'
By DEBORAH WILLIS
Reviewed by JENNIFER BASZILE
More than 200 arresting photographs convey the complexity and scope of African-American beauty.
'The History of Paris in Painting'
Reviewed by CAROLINE WEBER
A look at the city’s metamorphoses as recorded by centuries of artists.
Visual Books
Reviewed by STEVEN HELLER
Visual books on typefaces, the use of text in art, codes, Japanese puppets and the illustrator Peter de Sève.
Art Review | Long Island
Something in the Air, the Light, the Water?
By BENJAMIN GENOCCHIO
An exhibition showcases important works by a rich vein of talented and overlooked artists from Huntington and its environs.
Arts | Westchester
Turning a Spotlight on Latin American Music and Art
By SUSAN HODARA
As the Latino population grows, local cultural institutions seek to respond to the changing demographics.
Art Review | Connecticut
Colorful, Witty, Noisy: A West Indies Mélange
By BENJAMIN GENOCCHIO
A once-in-a-while show that takes you out of your comfort zone and into a strange new world.
A Vanished San Francisco, Black, White and Colorful
By CHLOE VELTMAN
Photographs by Gerald Ratto poignantly recall the vanished landscape of the Fillmore district of San Francisco in 1952.
Malcolm Wells, Champion of ‘Gentle Architecture,’ Dies at 83
By BRUCE WEBER
Mr. Wells was an iconoclastic architect who advocated environmentally responsible design and promoted the idea of earth-sheltered architecture.
Golden Oldies All Over Chelsea
By HOLLAND COTTER
The art market may be riding out the economic storm, but dealers are taking no chances, which may account for the high percentage of golden-oldie fare this month.
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Strike Spreads in France Over Museum Staff Cuts
By MAÏA DE LA BAUME
A strike that is challenging a government plan to reduce the state workforce shut down about a dozen institutions, including the Louvre, on Thursday.
Classic Botticelli, Ethereal Ad Man
By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN
The Botticelli show at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt is a glamorous crowd pleaser, naturally, but it’s a mixed bag.
Art Review
Revealing the Hand of Velázquez
By KAREN ROSENBERG
“Velázquez Rediscovered” pulls back the curtain on some of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s mysterious activities.
Museums
For Poe, This Has Been the Year to Die For
By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
Celebrations have been widespread and plentiful in the bicentennial of his birth, including two exhibits in Richmond, Va., where Poe spent nearly a third of his life.
Art Review | Stuart Sherman
A Tabletop Conjurer, Rediscovered
By HOLLAND COTTER
Thanks to two exceptional exhibitions, the performance artist Stuart Sherman is back in a big way, big at least for him.
Art Review | Artur Zmijewski
An Artist Turns People Into His Marionettes
By KEN JOHNSON
Morally troubling, sociologically provocative videos by Artur Zmijewski are on view in two separately organized exhibitions.
Bilbao Museum Official Sentenced
Compiled by RACHEL LEE HARRIS
The former financial director of the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum was found guilty of embezzlement and falsifying documents last week and was sentenced to 32 months in jail, Agence France-Presse reported.
The Vision to Depict It Their Way
By CHRIS COLIN
An art event looks to change the wider-world perceptions of art by the visually impaired.
Art Review | Connecticut
Divergent Styles and Inspirations of Coastal Art Colonies
By BENJAMIN GENOCCHIO
An exhibition demonstrates how Impressionism predominated at the colonies in Connecticut, and styles of Modernism in Maine.
The Manly Art of Museum Curating
By WENDELL JAMIESON
Want to get men into your museum? Try exhibitions on steak, war and rock ’n’ roll.
The Ephemera of Protests, Carefully Hoarded, Is Going to an Archive
By COLIN MOYNIHAN
Old fliers and other materials from past Lower East Side protests are about to become part of a collection at New York University that records labor history and radical politics.
The Saturday Profile
China’s Impolitic Artist, Still Waiting to Be Silenced
By MICHAEL WINES
Ai Weiwei is perhaps China’s most famous living artist and its most vociferous domestic critic, titles of a sort the committed iconoclast disdains.
Abroad
City, and Artist, Under Construction
By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN
The Courtauld Gallery’s exhibition of Frank Auerbach’s paintings from the 1950s and early ’60s conjures up early postwar London.
Ruling Lets Atlantic Yards Seize Land
By CHARLES V. BAGLI
The last major hurdle to a $4.9 billion development in Brooklyn fell after a ruling by New York’s highest court.
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Matching Architecture to the Art in a New Miami Museum
By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF
The design for the Miami Art Museum is not a regurgitation of outmoded historical forms.
A Survey Shows Pain of Recession for Artists
By RANDY KENNEDY
A major new survey of American artists and how they are weathering the economic downturn has found that slightly more than half experienced a drop in income from 2008 to 2009.
The Reading Life: Judging Books by Their Covers
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Notes From Leonardo's Musical Dreams
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Waterfront Photographs
By NIKO KOPPEL
A new show at the Museum of the City of New York has historic waterfront images and contemporary pictures by Diane Cook and Len Jenshel, as Niko Koppel reports.
Multimedia
An Isle of Joy, for Art Lovers
From Chelsea to the Upper East Side, Manhattan art galleries offer a host of intriguing options. The art critics of The Times give their best bets.
Botticelli in Frankfurt
A popular new exhibition at the Städel Museum is the first large survey of the artist in the German-speaking world.
Celebrating Poe
Celebrations have been widespread and plentiful in the bicentennial of his birth, including two exhibits in Richmond, Va., where Poe spent nearly a third of his life.
Art by the Blind
Now in its 20th year, "Insights" is the country's pre-eminent selected exhibition of paintings, photographs and mixed-media pieces by legally blind artists.
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