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  1. PhotoDesigners posit that buildings in the future will adapt to their surroundings. Air- and water-filled spheres by Lundén Architecture Company and others react to subtle shifts in an environment. 
    CreditEero Lundén, Ron Aasholm, and Carmen Lee; via Philadelphia Museum of Art; Joseph Hu

    Critic’s Notebook

    Design Shows Take On the Future. And It’s Not Pretty.

    Museum curators and mindful millennials seek visions of a “clean,” sustainable future. In Philadelphia, designers offer ideas to provoke.

    1. PhotoEd Ruscha in his Culver City studio with Dexter. The artist, long rooted in Los Angeles, has been thinking about the past. At right, Billy Al Bengston’s “The Dance (Moontang),” 1957; Julius Shulman’s 1950 photograph, “Freeman House” (built by Frank Lloyd Wright).
      CreditCarmen Chan for The New York Times

      Ed Ruscha: He Up and Went Home

      The artist on the Oklahoma roots of his new show, that $52.5 million painting, and meeting Walt Disney.

    2. Photo“Receipt” (2020), stacked reproductions of receipts from the artist’s purchase of ammunition at Walmart.
      CreditTeresa Margolles and James Cohan; Phoebe d'Heurle

      Critic’s Pick

      When Art Begins at the Scene of a Crime

      The Mexican artist Teresa Margolles makes unflinching art about violent death and its aftermath. Her newest photographs and installations are now in New York City.

  1. Critic’s Pick

    PhotoAndy Warhol, “Self-Portrait” from around 1980. An exhibition at Jack Shainman gallery includes nine Polaroid self-portraits of this icon of pop inscrutability.
    CreditThe Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

    Take a Look at These Rarely Seen Andy Warhol Photos

    Photography was Andy Warhol’s secret weapon — the architecture of his oeuvre. A new show highlights many of his rarely seen images.

  2. PhotoThe naturalist Martha Maxwell, perhaps the first female naturalist to shoot and prepare her own specimens, shown in one of her signature lifelike tableaus around 1879.
    CreditRubenstein Library, Duke University

    The Overlooked History of Women at Work

    A Grolier Club exhibition explores 500 years of women as scientists, midwives, writers, activists, undertakers and more.

  3. Show Us Your Wall

    PhotoThe SoHo home of Kathy and Steven Guttman with artwork from left: Arlene Shechet’s “Not Knot” (2010), Camille Henrot’s “Overlapping Figures” (2011) and Amy Sillman’s “PAT”(2017). The floor lamp is by Studio BBPR.
    CreditCamille Henrot/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris; Brittainy Newman/The New York Times

    Some Collectors Take a D.I.Y. Approach; Others Call in the Pros

    In this case, the art-lovers own storage and shipping centers that meet all their needs to rotate, hang and pack away their pieces.

  4. Art Reviews

    PhotoInstallation view of Nicky Nodjoumi’s new exhibition, “New York Times Sketchbooks (1996-1999),” at Helena Anrather.
    Creditvia Helena Anrather; Sebastian Bach

    What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries

    Nicky Nodjoumi’s dreamy serial paintings; Albert Oehlen’s “mirror paintings”; Clarity Haynes portraits of breasts; Kim Tschang-Yeul’s abstract brand of Pop Art

  1. Park Avenue Armory Celebrates Women’s Suffrage With 100 Artists

    To mark 100 years since the ratification of the 19th Amendment, the Armory and a group of 10 cultural institutions are commissioning works from women.

    By Devi Lockwood

  2. Klimt Painting Found in Museum’s Wall Is Authentic, Experts Say

    Gardeners found the painting in the wall of the Italian museum it was stolen from almost 23 years ago.

    By Alex Marshall

  3. The Outsider Art Fair 2020: 7 Must-See Exhibits

    Our critic explores Yuichiro Ukai’s pen-and-marker dinosaurs and samurai, ceramic animals from the Peruvian Amazon and the photography of Vivian Maier.

    By Will Heinrich

  4. She’s Your Guide to the Sound World of Fluxus

    Gelsey Bell, a wide-ranging singer, composer and scholar, is leading listening sessions of works from the MoMA sound archives.

    By Seth Colter Walls

  5. My Ten

    Gillian Anderson Listens to Fleetwood Mac and Loves Toni Morrison

    The London-based actress finds time for cultural enrichment between starring in “Sex Education” and “The Crown.”

    By Bruce Fretts

  6. 18 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend

    Our guide to new art shows and some that will be closing soon.

  7. Martin Luther King Jr. Day: 8 Places in New York to Remember His Legacy

    At events across the city, you can commemorate King’s achievements or follow his example of activism and service.

    By Peter Libbey

  8. Philadelphia Mayor: Museum Should ‘Strengthen’ Sexual Harassment Policy

    The mayor’s remarks come after a former Philadelphia Museum of Art boss was forced to resign from his Erie Art Museum post following a New York Times report.

    By Robin Pogrebin and Zachary Small

  9. At a Sculptor’s Marrakesh Estate, a Menagerie of Whimsical Artwork

    Jean-François Fourtou, known for his sculptures of animals, has channeled his creative energy to his 25-acre property in Morocco.

    By Aida Alami

  10. In Afghanistan, Being an Artist Is a Dangerous Job

    Despite the perils, Afghan artists have consistently portrayed their country and its many facets.

    By Farah Nayeri