Modern Machinery
With new curatorial direction, the MoMA should speed up, and the Guggenheim should slow down.

Museum and Gallery Listings
Selective listings from art critics of The New York Times.

026 The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions
Curator Helen Evans previews the exhibition "The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions," which opens October 24, 2008.

Pictured in Blue and White: English Ceramics of the Nineteenth Century
August 31, 2008 - December 31, 2008: Among the some thirty pieces in this installation are a number with views of Philadelphia landmarks including the Dam and Water Works on the Schuylkill River, the Bank of the United States and the Philadelphia Library Company building.

Leonetto Cappiello
Birra Itala Pilsen 1920 Ca. - to get a large picture and also get new history relating to this Leonetto Cappiello museum art work, advance through the artists name just above the thumbnail. You can also see purchasing, conservation framing and measurement guidance for this art picture. Leonetto Cappiello has produced numerous additional artist posters in the same style as "Birra Itala Pilsen 1920 Ca.", look over the artists directory for other gallerie pictures.

Gee’s Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt
September 16, 2008 - December 14, 2008: This exhibition takes a fresh look at the quilting tradition in Gee’s Bend, Alabama, introducing new artists and new motifs in works ranging from the early twentieth century through 2005.

Art Review: In Tribal Dresses, Life Stories, Intricate Labor and Female Bonding
More than 50 dresses are on view in “Identity by Design” at the New York branch of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.

Arts, Briefly: Italy Questions Items in Antiquities Auction
A former Italian culture minister says he is trying to stop Bonhams auction house in London from selling several archaeological artifacts that he contends may have been looted in Italy.