Art Review | 'Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present'

Performance Art Preserved, in the Flesh

By HOLLAND COTTER

Joshua Bright for The New York Times

“Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present”: A visitor at MoMA walks between Jacqueline Lounsbury, left, and Layard Thompson, both naked in a doorway.

With the opening of “Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present,” a long-building energy wave of performance art hits the Museum of Modern Art full force.

Slide Show | Video: 'Maria Abramovic Presents'

Art Review | Otto Dix

“Mealtime in the Trench,” by Otto Dix, part of a retrospective of the artist’s works at the Neue Galerie. Dix was born in 1891 in Germany and saw action in World War I.

Always Outrageous, Frequently Disturbing

By ROBERTA SMITH

This retrospective of Otto Dix’s unforgiving art, the first show of its kind ever held in North America, is engrossing yet sadly flawed.

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Art Review | 'Twilight Visions'

Twilight Visions: Surrealism in Paris at the International Center of Photography includes Dora Maar’s 1933 portrait of Leonor Fini.

Once Shocking, Now Poetic

By KEN JOHNSON

Many photographs in this absorbing show at the International Center of Photography set up poetic contrasts between the new and the old.

Violins from the 1500s to the 1700s, including a Stradivarius, second from left, at the recently reopened André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Museum Sets Grand Stage for Strings and Horns

By DANIEL J. WAKIN

The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently reopened its André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments after eight months.

Art Review | 'To Live Forever'

To Live Forever: Art and the Afterlife in Ancient Egypt An anthropoid shaped wooded coffin for “the Servant of the Great Place,” from about 1339-1308 B.C., is in this show at the Brooklyn Museum.

Taking It With You in Ancient Egypt

By KEN JOHNSON

The Brooklyn Museum has assembled an exhibition that explores all facets of the Egyptian funerary industry.

A poster for a 1980 Grateful Dead show. The group is the focus of a New-York Historical Society exhibition.

In Archive and Exhibit, the Dead Live On

By LARRY ROHTER

An exhibit at the New-York Historical Society is the first large showing of items from the Grateful Dead archive.

Abroad

An admirer photographs Caravaggio's “Annunciation” at the Quirinale in Rome.

An Italian Antihero’s Time to Shine

By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN

By one new metric, Michelangelo has been bumped from his perch atop the Italian art charts by Caravaggio.

Times Topics: Caravaggio

Bruce J. Graham, Chicago Architect Who Designed Sears Tower, Dies at 84

By WILLIAM GRIMES

Known for his integration of modernist design and sophisticated engineering in buildings, Mr. Graham played a role in changing Chicago’s skyline.

Architecture Review

Claude Parent: Graphic and Built Works, at the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine in Paris, features the Église Sainte-Bernadette du Banlay, in Nevers.

All Ramps and Spirals and Mosquito Landings

By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF

There’s something both touching and disturbing at the heart of “Claude Parent: Graphic and Built Works.”

Jewel of the collection: Christie's is expected to sell Picasso's “Nu au Plateau de Sculpteur (Nude, Green Leaves and Bust)” for more than $80 million.

Christie’s Wins Bid to Auction $150 Million Brody Collection

By CAROL VOGEL

The art collection of the Los Angeles philanthropist Frances Lasker Brody will be sold at Christie’s in New York in May.

A view of Ken Price’s exhibition at the Matthew Marks Gallery. Mr. Price, known for both ceramics and sculptures, is featured in several other New York shows.

The Blobs Aren’t Talking

By NICK STILLMAN

Ken Price remains a remarkably productive sculptor and renderer of graphic, cartoonlike drawings.

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Ted Gardiner, a government witness in an artifacts inquiry, killed himself last week. Two defendants committed suicide last year.

Suicide Raises Legal Issues in Indian Artifacts Cases

By KIRK JOHNSON

The effect of a central federal witness’s death, the third suicide related to a sprawling inquiry into artifact theft, is unclear.

Architectural Records Saved at Last Minute

Compiled by Dave Itzkoff

Street Art That’s Finding a New Address

By JOHN STRAUSBAUGH

Pop Pluralism is the skateboarding, graffiti-tagging, sometimes bratty and rebellious younger sibling of the art shown in most Chelsea galleries.

Interactive Feature: Pop Meets the Street

Visuals

The World as Their Canvas

By STEVEN HELLER

Visual books about maps, the design firm Unimark International and African and Central Asian “war rugs.”

Frank Williams with a model of Moscow's Mercury City Tower. Right, the Trump Palace, the Upper East Side's tallest building.

Frank Williams, Architect of Skyscrapers, Dies at 73

By DENNIS HEVESI

Mr. Williams was the lead architect or collaborated with other prominent designers on 20 buildings in Manhattan.

Arts | Long Island

Polly Wood-Holland is recreating wall art that graced an heiress’s bedroom at Coe Hall nearly a century ago.

A Plush Boudoir Welcomes the Curious

By JAMES KINDALL

Polly Wood-Holland is recreating an early-20th-century mural at Coe Hall, a mansion at Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park.

Times Topics: Long Island Arts | Long Island Arts Listings

Art Review | New Jersey

Reviving the Exotic to Critique Exoticism

By BENJAMIN GENOCCHIO

In the exhibition “Lalla Essaydi: Les Femmes du Maroc,” the photographer plays with stereotypes by placing Moroccan women in scenes from Orientalist paintings.

Times Topics: New Jersey Arts | New Jersey Arts Listings

Art Review | 'Skin Fruit'

Terence Koh’s “Untitled (Chocolate Mountains)

Anti-Mainstream Museum’s Mainstream Show

By ROBERTA SMITH

The New Museum’s exhibition of artworks from the collection of Dakis Joannou, one of its trustees, did not sound like a good idea. Seeing it up close does not change that.

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Art Review | 'The Armory Show'

A pirate by Peter Coffin at Emmanuel Perrotin’s booth.

Ahoy From Nudes, a Pirate and Scrooge McDuck

By KEN JOHNSON

There is not a lot of socio-politically provocative art to be found in the Armory Show. There are, however, many works in the bite-the-hand-that-feeds department.