Video artist Doug Aitken explores how we filter the world around us.

Carroll Dunham's first museum survey.

Thelma Golden and Lowery Sims

Never mind those hangarlike spaces on Broome or West 24th -- the art world's hottest new real estate is on Madison Avenue.

Maxwell Anderson wanted to reinvent the Whitney Biennial. And he has, with a crew of curators who have pointedly excluded the gallery world's fashionable set. Now, as the art community gears up for its favorite fracas, it isn't just the work that's going to be judged.

Soho is so eighties. Chelsea is so nineties. Long Island City is so aughts. But you want to see some art, maybe even buy a little something, and you don’t have the time or money to fly to Florence.

Head for the hills, and a restorative vacation at Casa Grande Mountain Retreat, a former coffee farm.

Four up-and-coming Chelsea galleries.

Washinton D.C.; June 19–20

The group approach to art-making has rarely been more visible. Sometimes artists pair up, sometimes other professionals join in -- and occasionally viewers are expected to lend a hand.