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“America I Am: The African American Imprint,” at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, offers proof that the history of America and the history of America’s blacks are inseparable.
Major Gift of Art Pottery to Adorn Met’s Restyled American Wing
The collector Robert A. Ellison Jr. plans to donate 250 American ceramics to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, filling a gap in the museum’s holdings.
Listening to Schroeder: ‘Peanuts’ Scholars Find Messages in Cartoon’s Scores
Musicologists and art curators have learned that there was much more than a punch line to Charles Schulz’s invocation of Beethoven’s music in his “Peanuts” strips.
Leonard E. B. Andrews, Buyer of Wyeth Art, Dies at 83
Mr. Andrews rocked the art world when he bought 240 previously unknown Andrew Wyeth works depicting a mysterious, sometimes nude woman known as Helga.
Museums Look Inward for Their Own Bailouts
Urban institutions rethink their missions in a push for survival.
Coosje van Bruggen, Sculptor, Dies at 66
Ms. van Bruggen was a critic, art historian and artist known for the colorful public sculptures she created around the world with her husband, the Pop artist Claes Oldenburg.
Philip Egan, a Designer of a Fabled Sedan, Dies at 88
Mr. Egan was an industrial designer and author who was one of the last surviving members of the Tucker ’48 design team.
'The Sky Below'
It’s hard not to be seduced by Stacey D’Erasmo’s selfish hero, an artist whose hunger for expression, for a father and for a home embodies a sense of entrapment that could make anyone behave badly.
Celebrating Animation
“It All Started Here” focuses on animation produced in New York City and, perhaps surprisingly, Westchester over the past 103 years.
Taking the Scenic Route, and Finding Bona Fide Art
With the help of models, an exhibition in Greenwich traces the evolution of set design from past to present.
Where Fashion Meets Its Artistic Match
“Fashion Forward,” at the Islip Art Museum, explores the linkages between art, design, architecture and fashion.
Stimulus Money for a Mob Museum. Got a Problem?
The godfathers of a plan to seek federal financing for a Las Vegas museum on organized crime say the museum and the city have become scapegoats.
Brooklyn Philharmonic's New Firehouse Home
The architectural firm that will redesign a former firehouse to serve as the new home of the Brooklyn Philharmonic has unveiled its plans, the real estate Web site GlobeSt.com reported.
Where Outsiders Come in From the Cold
Now in its 17th year, the Outsider Art Fair has forsaken the Puck Building for midtown, and the art rises to the occasion of the more refined environment.
In the Gloom, Seeing Rembrandt With New Eyes
Looking at Dutch painting from inside an economic collapse, with a market on the rocks, and a Gilded Age revealed as fool’s gold.
A Painter of Flags Unfurls His Emotions, Slowly
An exhibit of 87 paintings, drawings and prints at the Museum of Modern Art makes for an excellent introduction for anyone just getting to know Jasper Johns’s work.
Portraits Taken by the Writer as a Young Woman (in Hard Times)
Eudora Welty’s photographs of Mississippi and Manhattan, now on view at the Museum of the City of New York, create a compelling record of Depression-era life.
A Berliner’s Portraits of People and Her Familiar, and Foreign, Home
The photographer Gisèle Freund, whose work is on display in two different exhibitions in Berlin, wasn’t a great photojournalist, but she was a gifted pioneer.
Didier Aaron, 85, French Antiques Dealer, Is Dead
Mr. Aaron was the Paris antiques dealer whose gallery on Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré became the center of a mini-empire of fine French furniture.
Edd Cartier, 94, Pulp Illustrator, Dies
Mr. Cartier’s noirish illustrations for the pulp magazine The Shadow and action-packed, often whimsical illustrations for stories by L. Ron Hubbard, Isaac Asimov and other writers made him one of the leading science-fiction and horror artists of his time.
It Is What It Is: Portraits of the Human Figure
The painter Philip Pearlstein’s seven-decade career is the focus of a small, surprisingly varied exhibition at the Montclair Art Museum.
Judging an Elusive Artist by His Distinctive Covers
Barney Bubbles’s lusciously witty artwork for bands like Hawkwind and Elvis Costello and the Attractions has made him a hero to young designers.
Not in the Name of Love: Allegorical Imagery for Newlyweds
“The Triumph of Marriage,” a beautiful, compact show at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, displays 15 panels from Renaissance marriage chests.
Photographs Worth a Double Take
A close look a prosaic photograph by Friedhelm Denkeler, on display in the show “First Doubt: Optical Confusion in Modern Photography” at the Yale University Art Gallery.
Celebrating a Decade of Nurturing Artists on the Verge
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum checks in with veterans of a career-boosting visual arts program.
Design Loves a Depression
Few of the arts benefited from the late economic boom more than design, but a little austerity could give designers a new sense of relevance.
Oliver Lincoln Lundquist, Designer, Is Dead at 92
Mr. Lundquist, an architect and industrial designer, led the team that created the United Nations logo.
The Art of Cooking, and Vice Versa
The ingredients of “Seed Stage,” an installation by Corin Hewitt at the Whitney Museum, include performance, photography, sculpture and cooking.
Valuable Artworks Stolen in Berlin
An etching by Picasso and prints by Matisse and Braque were among 30 works stolen from a Berlin gallery during the New Year’s holiday.
Museum Director Is Briton of the Year
Neil MacGregor, the director of the British Museum, was named Briton of the Year by The Times of London.
Sir Michael Levey, 81, Art Historian, Is Dead
The prolific and wide-ranging art historian presided over the expansion of the National Gallery in London as its director.
Framing the Black Experience
The exhibition “America I Am: The African American Imprint” tells an epic American story through objects.
Schroeder’s (and Schulz’s) Muse
“Schulz’s Beethoven: Schroeder’s Muse,” at the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, Calif., looks at the composer’s role in the “Peanuts” strips.
Redefining the Museum
Urban institutions such as the Brooklyn Museum and the Detroit Institute of the Arts are rethinking their missions in a push for survival.
New Discoveries, New Artists
The Outsider Art Fair has forsaken the Puck Building for Midtown, and the art rises to the occasion of the more refined environment.
On Target
An exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art makes for an excellent introduction for anyone just getting to know Jasper Johns’s work.
‘One Writer’s Beginnings’
Eudora Welty’s early camerawork, now on view at the Museum of the City of New York, is a compelling record of Depression-era life.
Gisèle Freund in Berlin
The photographer, known for her portraits, fled her native Germany in 1933 and documented the changed Berlin she found when she returned.
Known for Nudes, but There Is More to See
An exhibition at the Montclair Museum of Art offers proof that the painter Philip Pearlstein has greater range than he has been credited for.
At the Galleries
Images from gallery shows by Farida Batool, Adeela Suleman and Tazeen Qayyum and others.
Long Forgotten in the Forbidden City
After decades of neglect, the Juanqinzhai is the first part of the 18th-century Palace of Tranquillity and Longevity to be restored.
Shots Between Takes
Film set photographer Mary Ellen Mark reflects upon her 40 years behind the scenes.
Links in the Chain
A look at “Artist’s Choice + Muniz = Rebus” at the Museum of Modern Art, a show curated by the photographer Vik Muniz.
Light in New York
New York provides its artists with all manner of illumination from which to draw their visions.
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The illustrator Christoph Niemann gives his visual take on the city he calls home.
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