In six years, Mark Bradford, 45, has gone from being a self-proclaimed “beauty operator” at his mother’s beauty shop in South Los Angeles to navigating the tangled, lucrative weave that is the international art scene.

Hiring a new director for the Guggenheim will be tricky.

The museum’s next director, whoever he or she is, has to do one thing first: Dump Thomas Krens.

More shows to see in their final days.

A workshop that’ll stick with you.

Remembering Elizabeth Murray.

A design expert discerns the good, the bad, and the odd in curbside culture.

Original New Yorkers (and friends) convene.

This colossal photograph by Barry Frydlender, a Tel Aviv artist, looks journalistic, but it’s anything but.

Before all the galleries close and their staffs make the customary late-summer retreat to cooler climes, we offer this guide to the season’s final must-sees.