Exhibition Review

Understanding Wasn’t Mutual

By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN

Lexey Swall for The New York Times

“Nation to Nation,” focusing on treaties, indicates a new, more historically serious direction for exhibitions at the National Museum of the American Indian.

Museum & Gallery Listings for Oct. 17-23

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

The Louis Vuitton Foundation, a private cultural center and contemporary-art museum designed by Frank Gehry, opens to the public next week.

An Architect’s Big Parisian Moment

By JOSEPH GIOVANNINI

In Paris, Frank Gehry’s new Vuitton Foundation museum is drawing all eyes, and the Pompidou Center is giving the architect a major career retrospective.

Belal Khaled in his studio at a Gaza refugee camp.

Artists’ Work Rises From the Destruction of the Israel-Gaza Conflict

By JODI RUDOREN and FARES AKRAM

Palestinian artists have gotten attention for their war-inspired creations by posting them on social media networks, where thousands have “liked” or shared them.

October 21, 2014

Kevin Rudd to Head Asia Society Policy Institute

Mr. Rudd, a former prime minister of Australia, will become the first president of the institute, which is devoted to putting Asia at the center of global policy discussions.

October 20, 2014

Celebrity Selfies as Art, Via John Baldessari

The current issue of Visionaire is devoted to works by John Baldessari with celebrity self-portraits providing the raw material.

October 20, 2014

Smithsonian Details New Fundraising Approach

The Smithsonian Institution has forged a new fundraising strategy as it tries to augment its government financing with large donations from individuals and corporations.

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Art

An untitled work by Judith Scott from 2003-4 at the Brooklyn Museum.

Wrapped in Complexity

By KAREN ROSENBERG

The sculptures of Judith Scott, cocoonlike bundles of yarn, fabric and found objects, look perfectly on-trend.

Sandhini Poddar, adjunct curator at the Guggenheim Museum, has organized a retrospective on the Indian modernist painter V. S. Gaitonde, that opens Friday.

Indian Modernist, Artist of Mystery

By ARTHUR LUBOW

A retrospective of the paintings of the Indian modernist V. S. Gaitonde, who died in 2001, will open on Friday at the Guggenheim Museum.

Streetscapes

The fire bell tower at the Jefferson Market in Greenwich Village around 1870.

In Old New York, Shouting ‘Fire’ With a System of Bells

By CHRISTOPHER GRAY

A network of quaint towers was displaced by technology and a growing city.

The Louis Vuitton Foundation's museum near the Bois de Boulogne in Paris. Designed by Frank Gehry, it opens on Oct. 27.

LVMH Flaunts Its Billowing Gehry Trophy in Paris

By DOREEN CARVAJAL

The Louis Vuitton Foundation’s new museum, designed by Frank Gehry, reflects the growing clout of private art patrons in Paris and beyond.

Last Chance

A Natural Painter’s Singular View of the Natural World

By ROBERTA SMITH

The first formal exhibition of Bill Lynch’s warm paintings on plywood ends next week at White Columns.

Art Review

At Home in a Wider World, Before It Was the Rage

By KAREN ROSENBERG

“Marisol: Sculptures and Works on Paper,” at El Museo del Barrio, is the artist’s first solo exhibition at a New York City museum.

Art in Review

Rob Pruitt’s show at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise includes examples of his “Suicide Paintings” and, rear, his “Therapy Paintings.”

Rob Pruitt: ‘Multiple Personalities’

By ROBERTA SMITH

Mr. Pruitt’s new show at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise has three rooms, each with a style of its own that may make you think of others’ art.

Art in Review

‘Fin de Siècle’

By KEN JOHNSON

This exhibition at the Swiss Institute turns chairs into characters in a florid theatrical production.

Art in Review

‘Thread Lines’

By KAREN ROSENBERG

“Thread Lines” a multigenerational show at the Drawing Center, features artists who illuminate the intersection of drawing with the mediums of sewing, knitting and weaving.

Art Review

It Was Hip to Be Square

By ROBERTA SMITH

“Cubism: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art showcases Picasso, Braque, Gris and Léger and one man’s generosity.

Art Review

Cosmic Grumbling, Awash With Acid

By HOLLAND COTTER

“Goya: Order and Disorder,” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, offers the broadest view of this artist’s career in America in more than two decades.

Art in Review

A photograph from Ishiuchi Miyako’s exhibition.

Ishiuchi Miyako: ‘Here and Now: Atomic Bomb Artifacts, Hiroshima 1945/2007’

By HOLLAND COTTER

This Japanese photographer is exhibiting pictures she took of personal artifacts from the victims of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

BEFORE Current parking at a superblock-size East Harlem housing development.

Critic’s Notebook

Trading Parking Lots for Affordable Housing

By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN

Parking lots can be turned into development sites to expand and improve affordable housing in New York City, three fellows at the Institute for Public Architecture propose.

Interactive Feature

Fall Arts Preview - Times 100

How to wade through the crush of culture coming your way this season? Here’s a guide to 100 events that have us especially excited, in order of appearance.

Inside Art

Cindy Sherman’s “Untitled Film Still #17” (1978). Images from this series will be auctioned by Christie’s next month.

Cindy Sherman’s ‘Untitled Film Stills’ Go to Auction

By CAROL VOGEL

Christie’s will auction 21 of Cindy Sherman’s “Untitled Film Stills” in a single lot next month, and those photographs are expected to sell for $6 million to $9 million.

Antiques

A 1938 portrait of Henry Walters, who, along with his father, built the foundation for the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.

Behind the Scenes at Museums in Boston and Pasadena

By EVE M. KAHN

The history of American museums, including their methods and misfires, is glimpsed in various exhibitions.

Museum & Gallery Listings for Oct. 17-23

Multimedia

Slide Show

David Lynch’s Paintings and Drawings

A new exhibition of the artist and filmmaker’s work is at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Slide Show

Behold! New Lebanon

A new tourism project in the Hudson Valley town of New Lebanon, N.Y.

Graphic

A Model Room Becomes Real

Redesigned patient rooms at the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro have more space for patients and families, but some features still frustrate.

Video

The Race to Record the Ruins

As land values rise, Peru’s ancient sites are under threat from development. To respond, Peru is creating a drone air force to map, monitor and safeguard its endangered treasures.

Video

Artists Claim Responsibility for Flags

The German artists Mischa Leinkauf and Matthias Wermke submitted this video as proof that they hoisted two white flags atop the Brooklyn Bridge earlier this summer.