New Orleans Journal

Want to Use My Suit? Then Throw Me Something

By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON

Chris Bickford for The New York Times

Last Friday, at a St. Joseph's Night parade in New Orleans, Santana Montana of the Monogram Hunters tribe went to greet his father, David Montana of the Yellow Pocahontas tribe.

The Mardi Gras Indians, whose costumes are part of New Orleans folklore, want compensation when others profit.

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On Governors Island, the university envisions an institute that would unite several academic disciplines around a subject like the urban future.

N.Y.U. Plans to Expand Campuses by 40 Percent

By ROBIN POGREBIN

New York University’s proposals have been met with skepticism from neighbors and preservationists.

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Art handlers compete in the static hold event, in which they held framed pieces of lead (at 50 or 60 pounds) against a wall while a “curator” barked orders.

Ready, Set, Hang: The Heavy Lifting Is On

By RANDY KENNEDY

The first-ever Art Handling Olympics were a chance for glory — well, at least some fun — for the people who lug art around.

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Architecture Review

Celebrating the Delicate Beauty of the Desert Landscape

By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF

Jean Nouvel’s design for the National Museum of Qatar may be that French architect’s most overtly poetic act of cultural synthesis yet.

Letters to and from Henry Strachey, secretary to the British commanders in chief, are being auctioned as the Copley Library sells its collection.

Headed for Auction: Back-Channel Gloom on Revolutionary War

By SAM ROBERTS

Letters from British generals and diplomatic officials in America during the Revolutionary War, some of them previously unpublished, will be auctioned by Sotheby’s.

Mapplethorpe Photos to Stay in Florence

Compiled by RACHEL LEE HARRIS

A ceremony in Florence on Monday will herald the donation of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe to two Italian state museums.

Design

Why @ Is Held in Such High Design Esteem

By ALICE RAWSTHORN

The Museum of Modern Art in New York has deemed the symbol to meet its standards on form, function, values, cultural impact and innovation.

Link by Link

Edward Tufte was appointed by the president to a panel advising the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board.

Take $787 Billion. Now Show Where It’s Going.

By NOAM COHEN

The information-design theorist Edward Tufte is using his critical eye to improve the recovery.gov Web site.

Willow Weilan Hai Chang, the director of the China Institute.

Curator of Collections and Connections

By CAROL KINO

Willow Weilan Hai Chang has put the China Institute on the map by mounting small, strategically focused exhibitions that illuminate different aspects of Chinese art and life.

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The Fine Art of Selling a Show

By ERIK PIEPENBURG

A look at some of the poster art ideas for the coming Broadway revival of “La Cage aux Folles.”

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Arts| Westchester

FUN AND FANCIFUL Bakelite has been put to many uses, including kitchen items and a toy projector.

A Celebration of Bakelite in the City Where It Was Born

By LAURA JOSEPH MOGIL

The exhibition “Bakelite in Yonkers: Pioneering the Age of Plastics” runs through June 6 at the Hudson River Museum.

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Cars and the City, Imperfect Together

By JAMES BARRON

An exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York explores the city’s role in the history of the automobile and the car’s role in shaping the city.

ALABAMA Police dogs attack demonstrators in Birmingham, 1963.

What the Still Photo Still Does Best

By HANK KLIBANOFF

Thoughts on the enduring power of photojournalism — and on the death of Charles Moore, one of its great practitioners.

Charles Moore’s Civil Rights Photographs

'Backing Into Forward'

By JULES FEIFFER
Reviewed by DAVID CARR

In this frequently hilarious memoir, the acclaimed cartoonist Jules Feiffer offers a vision of New York City during the cultural and political foment of the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s.

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Arts | Connecticut

Looking at Souvenirs and Seeing Art

By SUSAN HODARA

The “Exotic Encounters” exhibit at the Bruce Museum explores the complex relationship between travel and art.

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Who’s Afraid of Marina?

By RANDY KENNEDY

Visitors to the new Marina Abramovic retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, a survey of an often arduous strain of performance art, seem more intrigued than repulsed.

More Gods, Saints and Epic Flying Heroes

By HOLLAND COTTER

Anyone interested in Buddhist sacred art will want to sample some of these special, open-to-the-public exhibitions in Manhattan for Asia Week.

Lawrence B. Salander left court after his plea Thursday.

Art Dealer Pleads Guilty in $120 Million Fraud Case

By JAMES BARRON

Lawrence B. Salander, a noted art dealer on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, admitted he had bilked clients like the tennis star John McEnroe.

Times Topics: Lawrence B. Salander

Paired Artists, All Around Town

By THE NEW YORK TIMES

The Manhattan shows mentioned in the article.

From its perch at 1133 Broadway, an Antony Gormley sculpture surveys Manhattan.

Interlopers on the Skyline

By CAROL VOGEL

Antony Gormley has perched 31 slightly different naked sculptures of himself on rooftops around New York.

Exhibition Review | Hall of Human Origins

Searching the Bones of Our Shared Past

By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN

Long-term hominin evolution is the main concern of the impressive David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins, which opened at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.

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Art Review | 'Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art'

Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art Hokusai’s “Group of Mountain Climbers,” part of the Asia Society Museum’s exhibition.

On the Road With Seekers and Other Dharma Bums

By HOLLAND COTTER

The Asia Society is addressing peregrination and devotion directly in a deftly shaped exhibition called “Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art.”

Slide Show | More Gods, Saints and Epic Flying Heroes

Art Review | Josef Albers and Ken Price

Front, Ken Price’s “Long Shot”
and back, Josef Albers’s
“Homage to the Square.”

Bauhaus Meets Venice Beach

By ROBERTA SMITH

“Josef Albers/Ken Price,” a thrilling exhibition at the Brooke Alexander Gallery in SoHo, can make you feel as if your eyes were attached to a bigger, more perceptive brain.

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THE NEW BREED From left, the curators Clara Drummond, Rajendra Roy and David van der Leer are under-40 standouts in Manhattan’s art and museum circles.

The New Guard of Curators Steps Up

By CAROL VOGEL

Far from the stereotype of fusty academics, curators in their 30s and 40s are bringing eclectic backgrounds and a fresh eye to Manhattan’s museums.

An exhibition of selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation drawings collection, at the Museum of Modern Art in 2009.

Foundation Promotes Art as Well as Sole Trustee

By KEVIN FLYNN and ROBIN POGREBIN

A major beneficiary of the Judith Rothschild Foundation, besides the artists it promotes, has been its only trustee.

Books of The Times

'Backing Into Forward'

By JULES FEIFFER
Reviewed by MICHIKO KAKUTANI

The cartoonist Jules Feiffer traces the roots of his subversive stance in this funny, revealing and often biting memoir.

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WONDER CABINET A prosthesis from the Wellcome Collection in London, a museum conceived as a shrine to the human body.

The Thrill of Science, Tamed by Agendas

By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN

Science museums experiment in their struggle to define themselves.

STRONG SPIRIT “Ezili Danto,” a female voodoo deity, by the sculptor André Eugène in Haiti.

Out of Ruin, Haiti’s Visionaries

By HOLLAND COTTER

Many of Haiti’s museums were damaged in the country’s earthquake, but an exhibition scheduled there for 2012 hopes to revive the fortunes of the country’s creators.

20th Anniversary of a Boston Art Heist

By RANDY KENNEDY; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

The 1990 heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston — in which paintings and drawings worth well more than $300 million were taken — has long been exceptional.