Bold Aims for Art in a Staid Capital

By GRAHAM BOWLEY

Drew Angerer for The New York Times

Melissa Chiu, new director of the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington.

The new director of the Hirshhorn Museum, Melissa Chiu, says the international art scene will have a home in Washington.

Art

“La Traversée” (1996), by the Haitian-born American artist Edouard Duval-Carrié. Is on view in “Kongo Across the Waters.”

Sailing in Shackles, a Culture Survives

By HOLLAND COTTER

The subject of art’s global crosscurrents has produced a wonderful exhibitions in “Kongo Across the Waters” at the Princeton University Art Museum.

Museum & Gallery Listings for Oct. 24-30

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

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 29, 2014

Historical Society Exhibition to Commemorate Selma-to-Montgomery March

Photographs taken by a New York college student depict a turning point in American history, and will be displayed at the New-York Historical Society next year.

October 29, 2014

Director of Atlanta’s High Museum to Step Down

Michael E. Shapiro, who transformed and enlarged the collection of Atlanta’s High Museum, will leave next year.

October 27, 2014

Kean University Announces Michael Graves School of Architecture

The school’s curriculum will intensively utilize the New York metropolitan area and the Wenzhou region of China, where Kean has an English-speaking campus.

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Critic’s Notebook

Mayor de Blasio’s Plan for Parks Needs to Grow

By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN

Fixing long-neglected little parks in New York is nice, but it fails to address far larger problems.

Art Review

The Picasso Museum in Paris has reopened after a renovation that more than doubled its size.

With Self-Portrait of a Lifetime, Picasso Returns to Paris Pedestal

By HOLLAND COTTER

The Picasso Museum in Paris has reopened at more than twice its previous size, but the vast collection is arranged in a choppy, idiosyncratic way.

Video: Inside Picasso’s Camera

John Richardson, a Picasso biographer, is curator of “Picasso & the Camera,” opening Tuesday.

Wielding a Lens as Skillfully as a Brush

By CAROL VOGEL

“Picasso & the Camera,” organized by John Richardson, the artist’s longtime biographer and friend, looks at the role of photography in his life and work.

Sam Wagstaff in his New York apartment in 1976.

The Man Who Loved Photographs

By PHILIP GEFTER

The curator and collector Sam Wagstaff had a seminal influence on photography’s migration to the realm of high art.

Streetscapes

The Mail & Express Building, built in 1892 at Broadway and Fulton Street in Manhattan.

Refined in an Era of Superlatives

By CHRISTOPHER GRAY

The Mail & Express Building, built in 1892, was not the tallest, biggest or first skyscraper, but it was certainly the lightest, the most refined.

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Egon Schiele’s “Seated Woman With Bent Left Leg.”

Dispute Over Nazi Victim’s Art

By PATRICIA COHEN and GRAHAM BOWLEY

Sotheby’s and Christie’s are each auctioning an Egon Schiele work once owned by the Viennese cabaret star Fritz Grünbaum, but they disagree on whether his heirs should be compensated.

Art Review

Expatriate Humanist, Lens Up His Sleeve

By KAREN ROSENBERG

“Paul Strand: Master of Modern Photography,” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, reappraises Strand as a modernist turned humanist as well as a cinephile.

Art Review

In Weft and Warp, Earth, Heaven and Hell

By ROBERTA SMITH

“Grand Design,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, presents 19 large Renaissance tapestries designed by Pieter Coecke van Aelst.