- May 22, 2000
- A View With Some Room
In his grandiose landscape paintings, Frederic Edwin Church staked out that typically American space between the sideshow and the sublime.
- August 25, 2003
- Dungeon Master
The imprisoned Chinese painter and writer Mu Xin blended East and West in his misty landscapes—and saved himself in the process.
- October 30, 2000
- Natural Woman
Lee Krasner
Brooklyn Museum of Art; through January 7.
Edward Steichen
Whitney Museum of American Art; through February 4.
- October 23, 2000
- The Great Gadfly
Alexander Girard splashed the gray face of postwar minimalism with a riot of color and infused modernist intellectual design with the giddy warmth of folk art.
- March 26, 2001
- Ahead of the Curves
Critics scoffed at Morris Lapidus's Fontainebleau and Summit hotels, but actual people loved their swoops and angles.
- December 24, 2001
- Mass Appeal
Eternal Egypt: Masterworks of Ancient Art From the British Museum
Splendid Isolation: Art of Easter Island
- May 5, 2003
- Belly Up
By embracing the past, contemporary Buddhist art—much in vogue—helps center us in the present.
- February 22, 1999
- War Stories
A Guggenheim exhibit of his works from the World War II era amounts to a case for Picasso as the quintessential twentieth-century artist.
- February 2, 2004
- Skin Games
An International Center of Photography look at the evolution of racial attitudes makes one wonder, How far have we really come?
- July 16, 2001
- Not Just Desserts
Wayne Thiebaud
At the Whitney Museum of American Art; through 9/23.

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