Critic’s Notebook
Natural History Museum’s Expansion: Part Dr. Seuss, Part Jurassic Park
By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN
The $325 million addition hopes to be both spectacular and a good neighbor.
The $325 million addition hopes to be both spectacular and a good neighbor.
Expectations are lower and lots are fewer for next week’s big-ticket auctions of 20th- and 21st-century art in New York.
critical guide to exhibitions and installations in the New York area.
After lackluster sales on Wednesday, 47 scheduled lots brought in $306.7 million with fees, well above the low estimate.
A Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum show features 26 paintings by this Venice-born artist who devoted his talents mostly to religious commissions.
This exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History looks at the trillions of organisms crawling on and in the body.
The exhibition, drawn from the museum’s permanent collection, includes 30 or so artists, mostly European, who insisted on the primacy of the figure.
This Warhol portrait from 1962, which was sold at Phillips in 2013 and then sold eight months later, will be part of Christie’s sale on Tuesday.
The International Fine Art Print Dealers Association Print Fair offers prints from a range of eras and of production techniques. Here are highlights.
Mr. Bark made a photo booth his studio for several years, experimenting with the possibilities of the strips of pictures.
Pieces from, and inspired by, R.H. Quaytman’s show for the Tel Aviv Museum of Art make up her current exhibition at Miguel Abreu gallery.
The artist’s show at Zieher Smith & Horton harnesses a Rift headset and her near abstract paintings.
An overview at Venus reveals the playful and often satirical dimension Mr. Westermann brought to his paintings, woodcut prints, constructions and illustrated letters.
This exhibition explores the work of this stylish collaborative, who made the most of anything at hand in the 1930s and ’40s.
The show, “Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Couple of an Age,” opens on Nov. 13 at the Morven Museum & Garden in Princeton, N.J.
Prewar artisans in Germany designed playful furniture pieces. Then World War II began.
The artist works in a 1,875-square-foot space behind his home.
The auction brought $377 million with fees, just squeaking past the $375 million low estimate. The art world was looking to the Sotheby’s sale as an important test of the overall market.
The plan consumes less park space than expected, while introducing an aesthetic that evokes Frank Gehry’s Bilbao museum and the Flintstones.
A critical guide to exhibitions and installations in the New York area.
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For his new shows, the artist braved the elements to capture otherworldly outdoor portraits. He shares images from the series, as well as his favorite haunts in the area.
Wyatt Kahn’s Central Park puppet show features a rousing contemporary-art confab among versions of his works that have been brought to life.
This event, which was canceled in 2013, has welcomed scores of photographers to display their work until the end of the year.
Surreal, avant-garde works make up the new Art et Industrie retrospective.
Paintings in a new show of Troy Brauntuch’s early work come on loan from the collections of Larry Gagosian, Robert Longo and more.
In collaborating with Gagosian Gallery on an upcoming exhibition of Francis Bacon’s late paintings, Annabelle Selldorf made unconventional choices.
The U.S.S. Silversides Submarine Museum, in collaboration with Muskegon Community College, sponsors the series, which attracts both older adults and young students to this Michigan city.
“Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: Food in the Middle Ages and Renaissance” and “The Edible Monument: The Art of Food for Festivals” reveal the foodies of yore.
After almost four years as director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Mr. Tinterow has put his decades of experience in New York to good use.
Companies from Artsy to Amazon hope to use digital technology to improve a business that has long relied on the personal touch of traditional auction houses.
More than 50 cultural institutions have opened their collections for unrestricted use online, inviting members of the public to study and use the works as they like.
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This Warhol portrait from 1962, which was sold at Phillips in 2013 and then sold eight months later, will be part of Christie’s sale on Tuesday.
Prewar artisans in Germany designed playful furniture pieces. Then World War II began.
The show, “Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Couple of an Age,” opens on Nov. 13 at the Morven Museum & Garden in Princeton, N.J.
For his newest photo series, the artist spent time in upstate New York. He shares four photos from the series, as well as the haunts he discovered in the area.
Mr. Johnson’s new Manhattan show explores African-American identity while engaging in rich dialogue with other artists. Here is a visual tour of “Anxious Men” and its influences.
Today’s programs are focused less on specific outcomes and more on creative exploration and nurturing visitors.
Several art spaces have opened recently or are planned, enlivening an already rich cultural ecosystem.
This art fair at the Park Avenue Armory includes all kinds of surprising and amazing objects.
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