- March 1, 2004
- Futurist Tense
A Guggenheim exhibit shows how Umberto Boccioni’s portrait of his mother turned Cubism on its head—and irked the French.
- March 29, 1999
- Getting Medieval
Two shows at the Met bring "permanent" collections of art from the Middle Ages (one the museum's own, the other on loan from Assisi) back to new, vivid life.
- March 12, 2001
- Paper Chase
Picasso Cafe
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Caffè Linda
145 East 49th Street (646-497-1818).
- June 11, 2001
- Goya's Children
Leon Golub: Paintings, 1950-2000
Between Street and Mirror: The Drawings of James Ensor
- March 24, 2003
- Spanish Lessons
The best thing about the Met’s “Manet/Velázquez,” a look at the influence of Spain on French art, is the chance to see such a huge number of great paintings under one roof.
- April 5, 2004
- Golden Years
The spectacular third installment in the Met’s Byzantine series may focus on an era of decline, but you wouldn’t know it from the art.
- May 31, 1999
- A Healer's Art
At the Met's exhibition of an eccentric physician's hoard of paintings, more veneration of Saints Vincent (Van Gogh) and Paul (Cezanne).
- January 17, 2005
- His Old Kentucky Home
Ralph Eugene Meatyard’s eerie, gorgeous portraits of children walk a line between sentimental and gothic.
- May 10, 2004
- Boro Hell
A new mural celebrates the Brooklyn Museum’s emergence from the past with a vision of the future. It isn’t pretty (unless you’re a roach).
- August 16, 2004
- Matter of Life and Death
In the soot drawings and elaborate organic-looking sculptures of Lee Bontecou, glimpses of the eternal.

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