Peter Schjeldahl visits the new Whitney: “The relocated museum makes me surprisingly hopeful for the near future of art in New York.” Leer más.
On the Jean Paul Gaultier retrospective: "It pays homage as much to Gaultier’s penchant for spectacle and provocation as it does to his clothing, somewhat ... to the detriment of the latter." Leer más.
“Vermeer’s Girl With a Pearl Earring is in New York for the first time since 1984, looking as fresh-faced as ever in a room of her own.” Through Jan. 19, 2014 Leer más.
“Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade”: “The show is more than a landmark in the study of decorative arts—it’s a model of how museums can deploy their collections in context.” Through Jan 5. Leer más.
On "Walker Evans American Photographs": Evans "made work that was at once plainspoken and eloquent—images that still define something essential and true about America and Americans." Through Jan. 26. Leer más.
Ellen Gallagher's "Don't Axe Me": "A 2010 video and slide installation about a shipwreck, housed in a fussily designed black box, is little more than atmospheric." (Through Sept. 15) Leer más.
"Imagine this summer’s show at the Guggenheim Museum as air-conditioning for the eye and, if you’re gamely susceptible, the soul." Leer más.
This 1832 red-brick row house was home to the Treadwell family for nearly a century. Touring it in 1989, Richard Brookhiser was “struck by the incongruities—austerity side-by-side with lavishness.” Leer más.
J. P. Morgan demanded strict safeguards for the rare objects kept here, stating in 1924 that “one soiled thumb could undo the work of nine hundred years, and a misplaced cough could be a disaster.” Leer más.
