New Museum’s New Frontier
Elizabeth Peyton painted Michelle and Sasha Obama Listening to Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention August 2008 from an existing image.

Amy the Art Mom
Although I am now completely out of patience with the phrase "____(First Name) the ____(Occupation)," let's make room for one more version. It hasn't come up during campaign stump speeches,...

023 Gustave Courbet
Curator Gary Tinterow visits the New York studio of the painter John Currin to discuss the special exhibition Gustave Courbet.

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.

Thomas Chambers (1808-1869): American Marine and Landscape Painter
September 27, 2008 - December 28, 2008: The mysterious Thomas Chambers arrived in the United States from England in 1832, worked for three decades as a marine and landscape painter, and then disappeared after 1866, leaving behind a boldly expressive and puzzling body of work. This exhibition—the first major survey of Chambers’ work since his rediscovery in 1942—seeks to define his style, examine his sources, and investigate the popular audience for landscape and marine painting in the mid-nineteenth century.

Gregory Williams
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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.

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.

010 Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall: An Artist's Country Estate
Vivid descriptions, read from letters by Tiffany and his contemporaries, reveal the history behind one of his greatest artistic achievements.

Tear Downs
Credit crunch crushes MoMA’s houses of the future.

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.