Two Points of View, Miles Apart
By RANDY KENNEDY
Tony Cenicola/The New York Times
A run-through of “Passport” in Beacon, N.Y. There will be a simultaneous production in Montclair, N.J.
Robert Whitman specializes in the art of the ephemeral, in this case two performances, occurring at once, miles apart, that inform each other.
ART REVIEW
Sketches From the Man Of Steel
By ROBERTA SMITH
Mr. Serra is pushing the Metropolitan Museum of Art to new extremes in this first survey of his drawings to be mounted by an American museum.
EXHIBITION REVIEW
In Dinosaur Science, Size Is Just the Beginning
By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
A new exhibition, “The World’s Largest Dinosaurs,” at the American Museum of Natural History, shows how paleontology is changing along with our knowledge of the extinct creatures.
April 14, 2011
A Sendak Mural, Now on View in Philadelphia
A mural that Maurice Sendak spent months painting in a New York apartment in 1961 has been restored and put on display at the Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia.
April 14, 2011
Arts Group Calls for Worldwide Sit-In for Ai Weiwei
Artists and curators around the world will hold a sit-in outside Chinese embassies and consulates on Sunday to protest the detention of the artist Ai Weiwei.
April 13, 2011
Diller Scofidio + Renfro to Design Art Building at Stanford
Construction on Stanford University's new home for the art and art history departments is expected to start next year.
Science and Secrets in New York City Playgrounds
By LAUREL GRAEBER
Exploring five of the most unusual playgrounds among the nearly 1,000 in New York City, where every borough has more than one extraordinary play space.
CRITIC’S NOTEBOOK
Forward-Looking Sculptures by a Man Straddling Two Worlds
By KEN JOHNSON
“John Storrs: Machine-Age Modernist,” at the Grey Art Gallery, surveys the work of an expatriate enamored with the muscular confidence of the 1920s.
UP CLOSE
Tale of a Fateful Trip
By RUTH LA FERLA
Philip Monaghan, fashion creative director turned artist, displays paintings at N.Y.U. based on “Gilligan’s Island.”
The Serial Sleepover Artist
By PENELOPE GREEN
Kenya Robinson, an artist, has offered herself up as a guest to anyone who would have her as part of a 13-week-long performance-art piece, “The Inflatable Mattress.”
ON LOCATION
A Country Home, by a Modernist at Play
By ZOË BLACKLER
A unique 20th-century gem designed by John M. Johansen fits neatly into the weekend lives of a Manhattan architect and designer.
A Film Angers an Emirate Festival
By RANDY KENNEDY
Perhaps the curators of the Sharjah Biennial should have thought twice before inviting the participation of an Iranian-American filmmaker whose biggest hit to date was called “I Am a Sex Addict.”
Money Tight, Museums Mine Their Own Collections
By ROBIN POGREBIN
Museums are emphasizing exhibitions from their permanent collections instead of expensive loan shows.
Hedda Sterne, an Artist of Many Styles, Dies at 100
By WILLIAM GRIMES
Ms. Sterne was the last survivor of a famous 1951 Life magazine portrait of forward-thinking artists who included Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell and Mark Rothko.
A Bunker of History Begins to Open
By ROBIN POGREBIN
The New-York Historical Society is showing more details of renovations aimed at making it seem less remote to the public.
John McCracken, Sculptor of Geometric Forms, Dies at 76
By ROBERTA SMITH
Mr. McCracken brought a sense of play and spirituality to his work with slabs, blocks and columns.
That Noisy Woodpecker Had an Animated Secret
By MICHAEL CIEPLY
A scholar found that an animator embedded images paying homage to modern art into Woody Woodpecker cartoons in the 1940s.
For Cowboy Poets, Unwelcome Spotlight in Battle Over Spending
By ADAM NAGOURNEY
A once obscure gathering in Elko, Nev., became a target in the budget battle a world away in Washington, employed by conservatives as a symbol of fiscal waste.
SPECIAL SECTION
Museums
Dispatches from the intersection of social media, technology, the Internet and museums.
The Listings
Art in Review
Art in Review: ‘SOULFUL STITCHING’: ‘Patchwork Quilts by Africans (Siddis) of India’
Art in Review: GüNTHER UECKER: ‘The Early Years’
Art in Review: SASCHA BRAUNIG
Art in Review: ‘STARGAZERS’: ‘Elizabeth Catlett in Conversation With 21 Contemporary Artists’
Art in Review: ROCHELLE FEINSTEIN: ‘The Estate of Rochelle F.’
INSIDE ART
Josh Smith in Venice And Connecticut
By CAROL VOGEL
Josh Smith has a show opening May 7 at the Brant Foundation Art Study Center in Greenwich, Conn., and pieces at the Venice Biennale.
ANTIQUES
Tennessee Williams: Life Is All Memory
By EVE M. KAHN
Tennessee Williams items are on display at Columbia University and for auction at Bonhams; the Lod Mosaic moves to San Francisco; and “Cocktail Culture” opens at the Rhode Island School of Design.
‘The World’s Largest Dinosaurs’
Images from the show at the American Museum of Natural History.
Excerpt: 'The Loose Nut'
A clip from the Woody Woodpecker animated film, followed by the same clip slowed down to show in greater detail the abstract artwork within. (Courtesy of Universal Studios Licensing)
Homage to Destruction
A selection of images from a new exhibition at the Swiss Institute in New York.
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