This summer's bag of goodies includes the Brooklyn Museum's refreshing "Impressionists in Winter" and Surrealists at the uptown Guggenheim.

Ambitious photography shows at the Met and the ICP shed light on the way the camera can obscure the truth as much as reveal it.

Norman Rockwell: Pictures for the American People
At the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; through 3/3/02.

As sex becomes so mainstream that there's now an entire Manhattan museum devoted to the subject, whither smut?

In the dark, cartoonish paintings of Carroll Dunham, currently on display at the New Museum, a veneer of slapstick can't conceal the underlying savagery.

In their Chelsea gallery shows, Tracey Moffatt and Cindy Sherman bring new life to an old subject, as each creates a theater of the perverse.

Thomas Eakins

Philip Guston went from refined to raw, making the high-low struggles of twentieth-century painting his punch line.