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  1. PhotoIn the central atrium at the Brooklyn Museum, “Superstition and the Enchanted Garden” features dresses at center by Maria Grazia Chiuri, Dior's creative director.
    CreditMohamed Sadek for The New York Times

    Exhibition Review

    Fashion Returns to the Museum

    With “In America” at the Met and “Christian Dior” at the Brooklyn Museum, our critics debate the nuances of showing fashion in art institutions, and find a depth of influence among young American designers.

    By Vanessa Friedman and Zachary Woolfe

  2. PhotoMickalene Thomas, “March 1976,” 2021; rhinestones, glitter, acrylic and oil on canvas. The artist uses collage to establish privacy for her subject.
    CreditMickalene Thomas/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

    Critic’s Picks

    A New Level of Ambition in Art by 3 Women

    Three gallery shows of new work by veteran artists who happen to be women highlight their different ways and means of development, and the way they are taking new risks.

    By Roberta Smith

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      CreditTschabalala Self, via Baltimore Museum of Art; Photo by Mitro Hood

      FalL Preview

      A Harmonic Convergence of Signature Art Surveys

      Greater New York, the New Museum triennial and the Performa biennial, which all open in October, should allow us to take stock of what the year has wrought.

      By Roberta Smith

    2. PhotoYolanda López’s “Portrait of the Artist as the Virgin of Guadalupe” will be featured in a retrospective of her work at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.
      CreditYolanda López

      Fall Preview

      Counting New Art Blessings Amid the Uncertainty

      Overdue career tributes and shows on West African textiles and the Great Migration demonstrate museums responding to global movement and demographic shifts.

      By Holland Cotter

  1. Fall Preview

    Photo“Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy,” a painting by Artemisia Gentileschi, will be included in “By Her Hand” at the Wadsworth Atheneum.
    CreditVenice Fondazione Musei Civici, Palazzo Ducale

    Seeking Historical Exhibits That Speak to the Here and Now

    New galleries for Dutch and Flemish art in Boston, and the arrival of “Afro-Atlantic Histories” in Houston, will complicate serene pictures of the past.

    By Jason Farago

  3. PhotoA photo illustration utilizing a 1970s image of Jasper Johns, whose paintings, drawings and prints — many that feature twinned images — will be on display in a two-venue show in New York and Philadelphia.
    CreditIllustration by Lola Dupre; Photograph by Hans Namuth/Getty Images

    Seeing Double With Jasper Johns

    Two major museums teamed up for “Mind/Mirror,” only to realize they disagreed. Alike yet different, the two shows offer a revelatory look at America’s most famous living artist.

    By Deborah Solomon

  4. PhotoJasper Johns, “Slice” (2020), partly inspired by an astrophysicist’s map of the universe, includes a trompe l’oeil image of a drawing of a knee by a student from Cameroon.
    CreditJasper Johns/VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

    All the World in a ‘Slice’ of Art

    The newest painting by Jasper Johns was inspired by a fan letter from an astrophysicist. Here’s a first look.

    By Deborah Solomon

  5. PhotoHenri Matisse, in “The Red Studio,” from 1911, painted a show of his own work. The surviving paintings and sculptures depicted will be shown as a group at MoMA in May. The work was a radical way of depicting three-dimensional space.
    CreditThe Museum of Modern Art, New York. Succession H. Matisse/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

    A Deep Dive Into Matisse’s ‘The Red Studio’

    In a coming exhibition, MoMA will feature the artworks within this famed painting. Two of them will be on public view for the first time in 50 years.

    By Robin Pogrebin

  1. Up Next

    A Multifaceted Designer Gets a New Platform

    Emmanuel Olunkwa is named editor of Pin-Up, the fashionable architectural and design magazine.

    By Alex Hawgood

  2. New York Public Library to Keep Picture Collection Browsable

    A plan to archive the resource, used by many artists, including Warhol, has been shelved.

    By Arthur Lubow

  3. Some Asked, ‘Does Chattanooga Need a Lynching Memorial?’

    Yes, said Jerome Meadows, who designed the Ed Johnson Memorial to help bring the city’s history to light, with reconciliation and healing.

    By Chris Moody

  4. Prosecutor in Geneva Drops Criminal Inquiry in $2 Billion Art Dispute

    The move ends the criminal cases against Yves Bouvier initiated by the collector Dmitry Rybolovlev. The collector plans to appeal.

    By Graham Bowley

  5. Wrapped Arc de Triomphe Is Christo’s Fleeting Gift to Paris

    Planned by the conceptual artist 60 years ago, the posthumous work transforms a great monument with a glistening cloak. It feels like a liberating moment for the city.

    By Roger Cohen

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  6. Fall Preview

    These Are the Art Shows and Events to See This Season

    From an enormous roundup of Black American portraits to a two-city retrospective of Jasper Johns, the new art season is buzzing again — and as busy as it ever was.

    By Will Heinrich

  7. Critic’s pick

    Review: In ‘Sun & Sea,’ We Laze Away the End of the World

    Seemingly sweet yet insistently ominous, this opera installation turns a sandy beach into a spectacle of a changing climate.

    By Jason Farago

  8. Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now

    Check out Alvaro Barrington’s Neo-Expressionist paintings with a political edge; and Jill Freedman’s visceral photos of street cops from the ’70s.

    By Roberta Smith and Arthur Lubow

  9. Weekend Roundup

    5 Things to Do This Weekend

    Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually and in person in New York City.

  10. Johanna Burton Is Designated to Lead Los Angeles Museum

    The contemporary art museum had split its directorial duties into two jobs but has made a quick about-face with Klaus Biesenbach’s departure.

    By Robin Pogrebin