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Review: ‘Scenes for a New Heritage’ at the Museum of Modern Art

By KEN JOHNSON

David Maljkovi;Thomas Griesel, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

A video by the Croatian artist David Maljkovic.

MoMA’s latest exhibition of works from its permanent collection features videos, installations, sculptures, drawings, prints and photographs by more than 30 artists during the past three decades.

Review: A Strange and Wonderful View of Outsider Art

By ROBERTA SMITH

“When the Curtain Never Comes Down,” at the American Fok Art Museum, art is fresh, innovative and view-altering.

Inside Art

Jeppe Hein’s “Appearing Rooms,” in London in 2009, will animate Brooklyn Bridge Park starting on May 17.

Brooklyn Bridge Park to Display Danish Artist

By ROBIN POGREBIN

Fire-engine-red benches that spike, arch and undulate are among the whimsical installations coming to Brooklyn Bridge Park.

March 26, 2015

Asia Week New York Rings Up $360 Million in Art Sales

The nine-day event saw about $270 million in auction sales and $90 million in gallery sales.

March 25, 2015

A Painting Sold by the Met Is Declared a True Rubens

A painting sold by the Metropolitan Museum of Art a few years ago because the Met decided it was not by Peter Paul Rubens has been authenticated by outside experts.

March 24, 2015

$20 Million Gift to Expand National World War II Museum

The donation was made by Donald T. Bollinger Jr., known as Boysie, a longtime supporter of the museum, and will be used, in part, to add a 150-foot-tall “Canopy of Peace.”

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Art in Review

Sculptures by John Chamberlain shown within a structure by Jean Prouvé at Gagosian Gallery.

‘Chamberlain/Prouvé’ at Gagosian Gallery

By ROBERTA SMITH

A single show highlights John Chamberlain and Jean Prouvé, two geniuses who used metal in new if nearly opposite ways.

Art in Review

Gaetano Pesce’s “Rag Armchair” (1970), made of rags and polyester resin, is at Allouche Gallery.

Gaetano Pesce: ‘One-of-a-Kind Iconic Works, 1967-2015’

By JOSEPH GIOVANNINI

A Noah’s ark of eccentric creatures, characters and objects — animal, human, animistic — surreptitiously delivering social commentary.

Under the Mexican Sky “Idilio Salvaje,” a montage of videos featuring work by the Mexican cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa, in this retrospective at El Museo del Barrio.

Gabriel Figueroa: A Cinematographer’s Luminous Art

By HOLLAND COTTER

This retrospective at El Museo del Barrio follows the path of this Mexican cinematographer, who collaborated well-known directors and emerged as an international star.

William King with one of his sculptures at the Lyceum Gallery in Riverhead, N.Y., in 2012.

William King, Sculptor Who Used Wit, Dies at 90

By BRUCE WEBER

Mr. King’s work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington.

Art in Review

“Broken Teeth” (2014), oil on linen, by Hayv Kahraman.

Hayv Kahraman: ‘How Iraqi Are You?’

By ROBERTA SMITH

The artist builds on the refined figuration of Persian miniatures that are part of her cultural background as an Iraqi.

Lina Bo Bardi in her Glass House in São Paulo, Brazil.

Latin American Design and Architecture Through the Years

By LARRY ROHTER

Exhibitions at the Americas Society and the Museum of Arts and Design, and a third opening on Sunday at the Museum of Modern Art, show a region’s desire to be both local and global.

Art in Review

Steve Keister’s “USO #69” (1981) is among his “Unidentified Suspended Objects” at the Mitchell Algus Gallery.

Steve Keister: ‘USOs: 1978-1981’

By KEN JOHNSON

With their snazzy, cheap surface treatments, these works project attitudes of skeptical irreverence about art’s utopian claims.

Art in Review

Lynn Hershman Leeson’s “Breathing Machine II” (1968/2011).

Lynn Hershman Leeson: ‘Origins of the Species’

By HOLLAND COTTER

Before Cindy Sherman was creating fictional histories for the camera, Ms. Hershman Leeson was living one.

Development plans set off a preservation fight over a 65-year-old mural in a condemned building.

A Fight to Save Pieces of the Past in a Reshaping Phoenix Enclave

By RICK ROJAS

A condemned building containing two murals by an artist known for depicting the American Southwest became the center of a preservation campaign.

A Christie’s sale in New York this May will be built around “Les Femmes d’Alger (Version ‘O’),” a 1955 Picasso painting with an exceptionally high estimate.

A Picasso Is the Center of Attention at Christie’s Auction

By SCOTT REYBURN

Picasso’s 1955 painting “Les Femmes d’Alger (Version ‘O’)” could fetch more than $100 million.

David Geffen, center, at Avery Fisher with Katherine G. Farley, chairwoman of Lincoln Center, and Jed Bernstein, its president.

How David Geffen’s $100 Million Lincoln Center Gift Came Together

By ROBIN POGREBIN

Some in the world of cultural philanthropy question whether Mr. Geffen’s gift is large enough to warrant the renaming of a building as prominent as Avery Fisher Hall.