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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.

November 15, 2004
The Mona Lisa of Mount Vernon

Gilbert Stuart’s Washington portraits evoke art history’s most famous—and enigmatic—smile.

August 9, 2004
California Dreaming

How Ed Ruscha’s drawings and photographs— of signs, gas stations, parking lots—put viewers in an L.A. state of mind.

March 28, 2005
American Graffiti

“Basquiat” is a bit too reverent, but it catches the messy energy of the artist in his moment.

October 12, 1998
Finding Their Roots

Two African-American painters who turned to Europe for inspiration -- and found a home away from home.

October 4, 2004
Everything Is Illuminated

Atsuko Tanaka’s plugged-in dress has managed to do what most other performance art can’t: maintain its power for decades.

February 8, 1999
Victorian Secrets

In Julia Margaret Cameron's nineteenth-century photographs of women, glimpses of life as it is dreamed, not lived.

November 8, 2004
A Uniter, Not a Divider

Isamu Noguchi was a man of dualities: West and East, coarse and refined, optimist and realist.

November 6, 2000
Armani Ascendant

Giorgio Armani
Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum; through January 17.

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