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Renovating the U.N., With Hints of Green
Planning for the five-year, nearly $2 billion renovation of the United Nations headquarters included deciding which parts of the 39-story building’s art and architecture were worth preserving. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/22/arts/design/22nati.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/22/arts/design/22nati.html" border="0"/></a>

Cheeseburgers Get Into the Mix in the Italian Debate on Museums
The Italian art world is in an uproar over plans, led by a former McDonald’s executive, to turn Italy’s cultural sites into revenue generators. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/22/arts/design/22dire.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/22/arts/design/22dire.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review | 'Art and Love in Renaissance Italy': Eternal Objects of Desire
“Art and Love in Renaissance Italy” at the Metropolitan Museum promises romance, desire, expensive gift items and possible sex in the land of Romeo and Juliet and delivers on all counts. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/arts/design/21love.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/arts/design/21love.html" border="0"/></a>

A Piece of Cleveland With a New York Accent
Hundreds of artifacts are being prepared for the opening on Tuesday of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex NYC, a $9 million branch of the Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/arts/music/21rock.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/arts/music/21rock.html" border="0"/></a>

Museum Review | The National Museum of American History: America’s Attic, Ready for a Second Act
When the National Museum of American History reopens, it may begin to shed its reputation as one of the more cramped and confounding corners of the Smithsonian Institution. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/arts/design/21hist.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/arts/design/21hist.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review | 'Beyond Babylon': Global Exchange, Early Version
“Beyond Babylon,” a big, prescient, concentration-taxing exhibition, is the latest in the museum’s illustrious line of panoramic archaeological shows. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/arts/design/21baby.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/arts/design/21baby.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review | Pipilotti Rist: Tiptoe by the Tulips (or Stretch by the Apples)
“Pour Your Body Out,” a site-specific installation by the Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist, is arguably the first project to humanize the atrium of the Museum of Modern Art. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/arts/design/21rist.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/arts/design/21rist.html" border="0"/></a>

Endowment Drying Up, a Museum Seeks Help
Faced with a severe financial crisis, officials of the Museum of Contemporary Art have had talks about a possible joint venture or merger with several other Los Angeles institutions. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/arts/design/21museum.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/arts/design/21museum.html" border="0"/></a>

Eli Broad Plans Another Art Space
Eli Broad, the philanthropist whose gift financed a new contemporary-art building this year at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is planning to build another exhibition space for his vast collection. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/arts/design/20broa.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/arts/design/20broa.html" border="0"/></a>

Pact Will Relocate Artifacts to Italy From Cleveland
The Cleveland Museum of Art has agreed to hand over 13 ancient artifacts and an early Renaissance cross to Italy after long negotiations. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/arts/design/20arti.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/arts/design/20arti.html" border="0"/></a>

Jan Krugier, Dealer in Modern Art, Dies at 80
Mr. Krugier survived two years in Nazi concentration camps and went on to become a highly regarded dealer of work by artists like Picasso, Morandi, Balthus and Giacometti. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/arts/design/20krugier.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/arts/design/20krugier.html" border="0"/></a>

At Meeting, Smithsonian Practices New Openness
The Smithsonian Institution held the first public board meeting in its 162-year history on Monday. The first question: “Why did you not all resign?” <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/arts/18smithsonian.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/arts/18smithsonian.html" border="0"/></a>

In Faltering Economy, Auction Houses Crash Back to Earth
Recent art auctions seemed to signal a new era in sales, one that featured the return of the seasoned collector and more-sober business practices. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/arts/design/17auct.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/arts/design/17auct.html" border="0"/></a>

Arts, Briefly: LeWitt Retrospective
After months of drafting and painting work by a team of 65 artists and art students, the exhibition “Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective” is ready for the public. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/arts/design/17arts-LEWITTRETROS_BRF.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/arts/design/17arts-LEWITTRETROS_BRF.html" border="0"/></a>

Grace Hartigan, 86, Abstract Painter, Dies
Ms. Hartigan was a second-generation Abstract Expressionist whose gestural, intensely colored paintings often incorporated images drawn from popular culture. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/arts/design/18hartigan.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/arts/design/18hartigan.html" border="0"/></a>

Architecture: Saving Buffalo’s Untold Beauty
For all its historic value, Buffalo’s architecture has for decades seemed strangely frozen in time. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/arts/design/16ouro.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/arts/design/16ouro.html" border="0"/></a>

Art: Mapping an Imagined Order, Page by Page
An exploration of a mind’s landscape and its symbolism, sometimes under hypnosis. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/arts/design/16spea.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/arts/design/16spea.html" border="0"/></a>

What Is Art For?
The poet, philosopher, translator and scholar Lewis Hyde has spent his life trying to figure that out — and became a literary cult figure in the process. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/magazine/16hyde-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/magazine/16hyde-t.html" border="0"/></a>

Style: The Big Picture
Garrett Finney is helping to design a rover that will comfortably house two people in the absolute discomfort of outer space. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/magazine/16style-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/magazine/16style-t.html" border="0"/></a>

Visions of the Holocaust, and of an Artist’s Joys
A retrospective of the work of Arbit Blatas brings together brightly colored landscapes, portraits and stage designs with bronze bas-reliefs that he cast as memorials to the Holocaust. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/nyregion/16gallery.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/nyregion/16gallery.html" border="0"/></a>

The Exile’s Palette
A biography of Marc Chagall explores his impulses, his art and his complicated relationship with Russia. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/books/review/Boxer-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/books/review/Boxer-t.html" border="0"/></a>

From Ashes, Reviving a Place of Wild Dreams
A February fire destroyed most of Deyrolle, the legendary taxidermy store in Paris, but the shop’s supporters are vowing to rebuild. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/15/arts/design/15taxi.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/15/arts/design/15taxi.html" border="0"/></a>

Architecture Review | Art Gallery of Ontario: Gehry Puts a Very Different Signature on His Old Hometown’s Museum
The famed architect’s renovation of the Art Gallery of Ontario, his first commission in his native city of Toronto, balances exuberance with restraint. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/15/arts/design/15gehr.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/15/arts/design/15gehr.html" border="0"/></a>

A Budding Ambassador for Latin American Art
Estrellita Brodsky combines the connections of an arts philanthropist with the scholarly perspective of a graduate student to raise the profile of Latin American art. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/15/arts/design/15brod.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/15/arts/design/15brod.html" border="0"/></a>

Art: Chelsea: Art Chockablock With Encyclopedic Range
Chelsea currently provides an ever-humbling, close to encyclopedic survey of the possible modes of art-making and art-showing. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/arts/design/14chel.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/arts/design/14chel.html" border="0"/></a>

Art: Lower East Side: Art Shoehorned Amid Charm
Among the art neighborhoods of Manhattan, the Lower East Side is by far the most picturesque. With its synagogues, tenements and graffiti, it’s a visual event whether you’re visiting galleries or not. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/arts/design/14les.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/arts/design/14les.html" border="0"/></a>

Art: SoHo: Provocations, Reflections and Abstractions
From historic to spanking new, intimate to spectacular and minimalist to surrealistic, the art on view in the galleries of SoHo and the lower West Side covers a lot of territory. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/arts/design/14soho.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/arts/design/14soho.html" border="0"/></a>

Upper East Side: Linger (Quietly) for a While
The Upper East Side is a quieter, more idiosyncratic experience to Chelsea. Older work by blue-chip artists is the norm, and even possible to find a museum-quality show without the museum admission charge. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/arts/design/14ues.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/arts/design/14ues.html" border="0"/></a>

Phillips Sale Totals Less Than Half the Low Estimate
Results at Phillips de Pury & Company on Thursday proved dreary, with about 40 percent of the art unsold and those works that did sell going for a fraction of their estimates. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/arts/design/14auction.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/arts/design/14auction.html" border="0"/></a>

Exploring Old Rome Without Air (or Time) Travel
Google Earth has embraced a frontier dating back 17 centuries: ancient Rome under Constantine the Great. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/arts/design/13anci.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/arts/design/13anci.html" border="0"/></a>

Sale Plans Hit Haven for Women in the Arts
The home of Pen and Brush, a century-old former club in Greenwich Village devoted to female artists and writers, is for sale. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/arts/design/12brus.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/arts/design/12brus.html" border="0"/></a>

Mixed Results for Contemporary Art Sale at Christie’s
Of the 75 works on the block, nearly 0ne-third failed to sell, including a 1964 self-portrait by Francis Bacon. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/arts/design/13auction.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/arts/design/13auction.html" border="0"/></a>

Art: Once Inspired by a War, Now by the Land
The designer of the Vietnam memorial is finding that her three career strands are related. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/arts/design/09kino.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/arts/design/09kino.html" border="0"/></a>

ArT: Yesterday’s Pristine Vistas, Frozen in Time
In a new exhibition, aesthetic explorers document the Arctic that was. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/arts/design/09unge.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/arts/design/09unge.html" border="0"/></a>

Art of the Steal
How several well-to-do American museums came to deal in contraband antiquities. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/books/review/Eakin-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/books/review/Eakin-t.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review: A Dedication to Realism in Sculpture and Tableaux
At a retrospective at Montclair State University, a commitment to the human form and condition comes through in George Segal’s work. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/nyregion/new-jersey/09artsnj.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/nyregion/new-jersey/09artsnj.html" border="0"/></a>

A Night Out With | Joseph Arthur: Doing Things You’re Not
Hanging out with Joseph Arthur, the singer, songwriter and artist, who has created his own little artistic paradise in the Dumbo section of Brooklyn. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/fashion/09nite.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/fashion/09nite.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review | William Eggleston: Old South Meets New, in Living Color
In “William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2008,” a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Mr. Eggleston’s images look like influential classics. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/arts/design/07eggl.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/arts/design/07eggl.html" border="0"/></a>

Gris Sets Record in Slow Christie’s Auction
A Cubist painting by Juan Gris brought a record price of $20 million, but many works remained unsold at Christie’s auction of Impressionist and Modern art on Thursday. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/arts/design/07auction.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/arts/design/07auction.html" border="0"/></a>

Museum Review | Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum: Military Muscle Retooled, Ready for Tourist Action
Standing on the deck of the U.S.S. Intrepid, the aircraft carrier turned museum that reopens on Saturday, you begin to grasp the scale of enterprise and battle it represents. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/arts/design/07intr.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/arts/design/07intr.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review | The Jewish Museum: When Modernism and Judaism Converged on the Moscow Stage
“Chagall and the Artists of the Russian Jewish Theater, 1919-1949” at the Jewish Museum tells a fascinating tale of two vanguard theater companies that flourished in Moscow after the Bolshevik Revolution. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/arts/design/07chag.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/arts/design/07chag.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review | Art20: A Small Show Where Some Sleuthing Is in Order
The seven-year-old Art20, devoted to 20th-century art, is one of the smaller and more manageable fairs on the calendar — which is both a positive and a negative. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/arts/design/07fair.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/arts/design/07fair.html" border="0"/></a>

Away: Our Place Just Above the Road
An architect and paleontologist built their country home into the slope of a mountain, complete with a guest yurt and view of a 30-foot waterfall in Saugerties, N.Y. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/greathomesanddestinations/07away.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/greathomesanddestinations/07away.html" border="0"/></a>

Last Chance: When Newspaper Photographs Are Worth a Thousand Paintings
In two galleries, steps apart on West 24th Street, you encounter large brushy grisaille paintings based on newspaper images or other photographs. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/arts/design/06chan.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/arts/design/06chan.html" border="0"/></a>

Bleak Night at Christie’s, in Both Sales and Prices
Works by artists from Renoir to Rothko failed to sell, and many went for far less than was likely a year ago. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/arts/design/06auction.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/arts/design/06auction.html" border="0"/></a>

Auction Season Opens With Little Enthusiasm
During an auction at Sotheby’s, the results were spotty, a relief to those who thought the appetite for art was all but dead, but hardly the success story of seasons past. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/arts/design/04auction.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/arts/design/04auction.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review | Prospect.1: Kaleidoscopic Biennial for a Scarred City
New Orleans has joined the biennial rush with Prospect.1, the sprawling exhibition that opened across the city over the weekend. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/arts/design/04pros.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/arts/design/04pros.html" border="0"/></a>

Grave Warnings of Disease, With the Adman’s Flair
The “An Iconography of Contagion” exhibition in Washington features public health posters from numerous countries on an array of diseases. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/health/04post.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/health/04post.html" border="0"/></a>

Highest Pedigree Yields No High Bids for Cello
It was a remarkable cello and by all accounts it was primed to draw a record price as serious bidding began Friday morning. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/03/arts/design/03tari.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/03/arts/design/03tari.html" border="0"/></a>

A Museum With No Exhibits, but Plenty of Ideas
Artist Filip Noterdaeme set up the Homeless Museum of Art, a stand located near the New Museum of Contemporary Art and the Bowery Mission homeless shelter. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/03/nyregion/03homeless.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/03/nyregion/03homeless.html" border="0"/></a>

Art: Tapped Out?
With the market easing, the big auction houses brace for the fall sales. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/arts/design/02voge.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/arts/design/02voge.html" border="0"/></a>

Art: Pictures Worth Thousands of Words
A fresh look at Proust’s dreamlike writing focuses on the works of art that inspired it. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/arts/design/02kenn.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/arts/design/02kenn.html" border="0"/></a>

Art: Work Stands Out Before It Blends In
The artist Andy Goldsworthy takes on what will be his tallest project in North America: building 100-feet-long spires in the forest of the Presidio. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/arts/design/02fink.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/arts/design/02fink.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review: Social Commentary in Evocative Prints From Goya
Goya’s prints at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum should not be missed by anybody with a serious interest in the visual arts. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/nyregion/new-jersey/02artsnj.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/nyregion/new-jersey/02artsnj.html" border="0"/></a>

Albert Boime, Leading Art Historian, Dies at 75
Professor Boime, who wrote the four-volume “Social History of Modern Art,” was a scholar of art history who took the history every bit as seriously as the art. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/arts/design/02boime.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/arts/design/02boime.html" border="0"/></a>

The Nation: The Best Buttons of 2008, in One Man’s Opinion
Buttons have a long history as badges of political allegiance. Here’s a nonpartisan look at some of the best from the 2008 presidential race. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/weekinreview/02heller.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/weekinreview/02heller.html" border="0"/></a>

Flamboyance Gets a Face-Lift
The Fontainebleau hotel chases its former glory and the crowds of South Beach. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/fashion/02HOTEL.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/fashion/02HOTEL.html" border="0"/></a>

Style: Rear Window
From the front, this 1950s Frank Lloyd Wright house looks innocent enough — but the view is killer. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/magazine/02Style-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/magazine/02Style-t.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review | 'theanyspacewhatever': Museum as Romantic Comedy
The Guggenheim’s exhibition “theanyspacewhatever” aims to resensitize people to their everyday surroundings and, moreover, to one another. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/arts/design/31gugg.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/arts/design/31gugg.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review | Joan Miró at MoMA: Miró, Serial Murderer of Artistic Conventions
“Joan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927-1937” is an absorbing, invigorating and — Miró would be mortified — beautiful show at the Museum of Modern Art. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/arts/design/31miro.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/arts/design/31miro.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review | Jan Lievens: A Forgotten Baroque Painter, Shown Free of Rembrandt’s Shadow
Jan Lievens, the subject of an interesting exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, is not a household name now, but in his time he was famous for his portraits and his religious and history paintings. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/arts/design/31liev.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/arts/design/31liev.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review | International Fine Print Dealers Association Print Fair: Stretching the Concept of Print to Its Outer Limits
In what is shaping up to be a subdued art season, the annual International Fine Print Dealers Association Print Fair at the Park Avenue Armory is a reassuring presence. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/arts/design/31fair.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/arts/design/31fair.html" border="0"/></a>

New Orleans Rising, by Hammer and Art
Prospect.1 New Orleans, a new art biennial, is billed as the largest exhibition of contemporary art ever on American soil and is intended to help restore the cultural vibrancy of New Orleans. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/arts/design/29pros.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/arts/design/29pros.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review: Making Secular Art Out of Religious Imagery
“NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith,” at the P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in Queens, is a quiet, meditative, spare-to-the-point-of-thin-looking exhibition. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/arts/design/29neo.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/arts/design/29neo.html" border="0"/></a>

Abroad: In a Faceoff, the Masters Trump Picasso
No show in Europe at the moment bids to be more spectacular, or ends up being more exasperating, than “Picasso and the Masters.” <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/arts/design/28abro.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/arts/design/28abro.html" border="0"/></a>

Picasso Work Is Withdrawn From Sotheby’s Sale
A Picasso Cubist painting that was to have been a star of Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern art sale has been abruptly withdrawn from the auction. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/arts/design/28picasso.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/arts/design/28picasso.html" border="0"/></a>

In Rome, a New Museum Invites a Hands-On Approach to Insanity
Overturning preconceptions about mental illness is the leitmotif of the eight-year-old Mind’s Museum, which reopened last week after a high-tech overhaul. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/arts/design/28insa.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/arts/design/28insa.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review | Mark Rothko and Ammi Phillips: Yankee Spirit in Disparate Masters
The small exhibition of works by Mark Rothko and the 19th-century folk artist Ammi Phillips at the American Folk Art Museum reveals the artists’ parallel ways of dealing with surface, color and light. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/27/arts/design/27ligh.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/27/arts/design/27ligh.html" border="0"/></a>

Art: Shining a Light on a Movement That Maybe Isn’t
THE title is the first indication that the exhibition is a bit of a departure for the Guggenheim Museum: “theanyspacewhatever.”. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/arts/design/26shat.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/arts/design/26shat.html" border="0"/></a>

Art: Modern Motifs, With Echoes of Brazil
Today the career of the Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes seems as jampacked as her paintings themselves. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/arts/design/26kino.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/arts/design/26kino.html" border="0"/></a>

Visuals: Designed to Sell
New visual books about the “creative revolution” in advertising, the typography of Jan Tschichold; Alexander Calder’s Paris years; and cave art. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/books/review/Heller-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/books/review/Heller-t.html" border="0"/></a>

Arts, Briefly: Sotheby’s Suffers Losses on Guaranteed Prices
Disappointing art auctions in London and Hong Kong this month cost Sotheby’s $15 million in losses on guarantees to sellers, Bloomberg News reported. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/25/arts/design/25arts-SOTHEBYSSUFF_BRF.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/25/arts/design/25arts-SOTHEBYSSUFF_BRF.html" border="0"/></a>

Arts, Briefly: Council Votes to Remove Banksy Mural in London
A council in London has ordered that a 23-foot Banksy mural must be removed from the wall of a building on Newman Street. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/25/arts/design/25arts-COUNCILVOTES_BRF.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/25/arts/design/25arts-COUNCILVOTES_BRF.html" border="0"/></a>

Architecture: Treading Carefully but Not Timidly in a Civic Masterpiece
News that the New York Public Library has hired Norman Foster and his London firm for the job is one of a string of shrewd decisions by the library that should put our minds at ease. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/23/arts/design/23ouro.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/23/arts/design/23ouro.html" border="0"/></a>

British Architect to Redesign City Library
Norman Foster, the eminent British architect, has been selected for a major renovation of the New York Public Library’s landmark 1911 main building. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/23/arts/design/23libr.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/23/arts/design/23libr.html" border="0"/></a>

Art: London’s Annual Frieze Fair Spawns Provocative Action on Its Fringes
It’s something of a London tradition: the scrum of events, exhibitions and gallery shows timed to coincide with the Frieze Art Fair in Regent’s Park. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/arts/design/22frie.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/arts/design/22frie.html" border="0"/></a>

Architecture: Art and Commerce Canoodling in Central Park
The Chanel Pavilion that opened Monday in Central Park sets out to drape an aura of refinement over a cynical marketing gimmick. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/21/arts/design/21zaha.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/21/arts/design/21zaha.html" border="0"/></a>

Exhibition Review: Ambivalence as Part of Author’s Legacy
An exhibition about Irène Némirovsky at the Museum of Jewish Heritage includes the manuscript of her “Suite Française.” <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/21/arts/design/21nemi.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/21/arts/design/21nemi.html" border="0"/></a>

Museums Fear Lean Days Ahead
Across the country museum directors are bracing for the effects of an economic crisis that could change everything from exhibitions to endowment funds. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/20/arts/design/20muse.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/20/arts/design/20muse.html" border="0"/></a>

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council to Run Artists’ Space on Governors Island
The selection of the council is the latest effort to transform the 172-acre island in New York Harbor into a destination that is an integral part of city life. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/20/arts/design/20gove.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/20/arts/design/20gove.html" border="0"/></a>

Ardeshir Mohassess, Iranian Cartoonist, Is Dead at 70
Mr. Mohassess pushed the art of the cartoon to almost Surrealist satire of his native land in work both popular and profound. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/20/arts/design/20mohassess.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/20/arts/design/20mohassess.html" border="0"/></a>

Inside Art: Auction Slump Has Silver Lining for MoMA
After the recent drop in auction prices, artworks that were once out of reach for museums have suddenly become affordable again. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/arts/design/21voge.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/arts/design/21voge.html" border="0"/></a>

Antiques: The China Trade, Portrayed in Porcelain
Kentshire Galleries is hosting a selling exhibition of Chinese export porcelain in its Manhattan shop at 700 Madison Avenue, at 62nd Street. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/arts/design/21anti.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/arts/design/21anti.html" border="0"/></a>

Art in Review
Martín Ramírez at the American Folk Art Museum, “I Am a Man” at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Zaha Hadid at Sonnabend and more. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/arts/design/21gall.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/arts/design/21gall.html" border="0"/></a>