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Matthew Barney with pieces from his “Water Cast” series at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.

Matthew Barney’s Most Punishing Tour: ‘River of Fundament’

By RANDY KENNEDY

A new film, almost six hours long, and a body of sculpture inspired by the film are being exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.

The Whitney Taps Frank Stella for an Inaugural Retrospective at Its New Home

By DEBORAH SOLOMON

The artist, known for his “Black Paintings” in the late 1950s, has continued to work well into his 70s and is currently producing spindly and surprisingly lightweight sculptures.

Museum & Gallery Listings for Sept. 18-24

A critical guide to exhibitions and installations in the New York area.

The Great Hall of the newly refurbished Morgan Memorial Building, a double-height grand space flanked by smaller galleries.

Review: Wadsworth Atheneum, a Masterpiece of Renovation

By ROBERTA SMITH

After a five-year renovation, the museum is reopening the Morgan Memorial building and its European galleries.

“Red Slate Line,” a work by the British sculptor Richard Long from 2015.

‘Crescent to Cross’ by Richard Long Is at Sperone Westwater

By ROBIN POGREBIN

The sculptor’s new work was inspired by a long walk in Spain.

Adrian Frutiger, who whose work spanned hot lead to optical recognition, in an undated photo.

Adrian Frutiger Dies at 87; His Type Designs Show You the Way

By MARGALIT FOX

From the Paris Métro to Kennedy Airport, signs over the years have borne Mr. Frutiger’s imprint.

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For a Street Photographer, ‘The Weirder, the Better’

By JOHN LELAND

Jill Freedman photographed the hidden New York: “beggars, panhandlers, people sleeping on the street.”

Arts | Long Island

John Lennon and Yoko Ono at their home in Surrey, England.

The Spirit of the ’70s, in Pictures

By AILEEN JACOBSON

Photographs of John Lennon, Yoko Ono and other celebrities from the 1970s are being exhibited for the first time in East Hampton.

Arts | Connecticut

Ceramics by Toshiko Takaezu are surrounded by paintings, allowing the artwork to be experienced in a different context.

Contrasting Art and Creating Dialogue at Yale University Gallery

By SUSAN HODARA

An exhibition challenges the idea that artists who work in clay are somehow working in a lesser medium.

Installing lighting at the Staten Island Museum.

Staten Island Museum Is Reopening in Snug Harbor Complex

By ROBIN POGREBIN

Moving to a cultural hub and a vastly expanded space, the museum hopes to transcend its “outpost” identity and let its eclectic collection breathe.

Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri with two of his untitled paintings at Salon 94.

An Aboriginal Artist’s Dizzying New York Moment

By RANDY KENNEDY

Traveling from the remote Australian desert to the United States for his first solo show here, Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri has had much to adjust to.

Zaha Hadid Withdraws From Competition to Design Tokyo Olympic Stadium

By ROBIN POGREBIN

Two months after her design for a 2020 Olympic stadium in Tokyo was scrapped because of spiraling costs, the Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid has taken herself out of the running for the project’s next round of competition.

Male power figures, called Mangaaka, in the exhibition “Kongo: Power and Majesty” at the Metropolitan Museum.

Review: ‘Kongo: Power and Majesty’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

By HOLLAND COTTER

This tight, idea-filled and troubling show offers a rare view of surviving works from the Kongo civilization on the coast of Central Africa.

Mark Grotjahn’s, “Untitled (The Skies Remembered II, French Mask)” at the Anton Kern Gallery.

Review: Mark Grotjahn’s ‘Painted Sculpture’ Offers the Gorgeously Preposterous

By ROBERTA SMITH

The artist, who began painting on bronze casts of cardboard boxes a few years ago, goes bigger with this show at the Anton Kern Gallery.

“Facade,” 2015, in oil and powdered pigment on paper, by Keltie Ferris, whose work is at Mitchell-Innes & Nash.

Review: Keltie Ferris, Woman Warrior

By MARTHA SCHWENDENER

While Ms. Ferris shows strength and aggression in her artwork, she manages to conjure the ethereal at the same time.

Jessie Gold in “September Spring,” at the Kitchen.

Review: ‘September Spring,’ a Multimedia Memorial

By HOLLAND COTTER

Sam Falls has created a performance installation at the Kitchen, featuring dancers on paint-smeared canvases, to honor his collaborator Jamie Kanzler.

At left, a dollhouse made in 1912 by John Carlsson (with a motorized elevator), part of a Bard Graduate Center Gallery exhibition.

Review: ‘Swedish Wooden Toys’ Mix Ingenuity and Education

By KEN JOHNSON

This exhibition of playthings from the 1600s to today shows off Sweden’s woodworking prowess.

Detroit Institute of Arts Names New Director: Salvador Salort-Pons

September 16, 2015

Sale of Twombly Work to Help Fund Expansion of Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles

September 15, 2015

Tom Hanks Joins Panel Trying to Build Eisenhower Memorial

September 14, 2015

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A rendering of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, now in temporary quarters awaiting construction. Ellen Salpeter, of the Jewish Museum, will begin as director in Miami on Dec. 1.

Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Names Ellen Salpeter as Director

By BRETT SOKOL, HILARIE M. SHEETS and JOSHUA BARONE

Ellen Salpeter of the Jewish Museum starts in Miami on Dec. 1. Sandy Skoglund’s show at Ryan Lee Gallery will bring a 1979 photograph to life.

A vintage clock in the collection of the Timexpo museum in Waterbury, Conn. It was designed with backward numerals so that the time could be read correctly in a barber-shop mirror.

Timex Museum Prepares to Shut Its Doors

By EVE M. KAHN

After 14 years, Timexpo in Waterbury, Conn., dedicated to the history of the company and its clocks and watches, plans to disperse its colorful collection.

Antiques

Detail of a seal on a 1775 letter from Empress Maria Theresa to an Italian cardinal with a two-part “lock.”

A Trove of ‘Letterlocking,’ or Vintage Strategies to Deter Snoops

By EVE M. KAHN

An M.I.T. conservator has turned up ingenious examples of ways that people folded, slit or glued pages to prevent people from illicitly reading their letters.