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Medieval Foes With Whimsy

By KEN JOHNSON

Karsten Moran for The New York Times

Kings and pawns from the Lewis chessmen set.

“The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen From the Isle of Lewis,” the famous cache of pieces beautifully carved from walrus tusks by anonymous artisans, are on view at the Cloisters.

Video: From Elephants to Bishops

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This Gay American Life, in Code or in Your Face

By ROBERTA SMITH

“Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture,” at the Brooklyn Museum, is billed as the first major museum exhibition of its kind.

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Time Capsule With Pulse on Present

By KAREN ROSENBERG

The Museum of Modern Art has reunited five of the eight free-standing frescoes that the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera made for a 1930s retrospective at the museum.

November 17, 2011 2:10 PM ET

Dead Dog Comes Back to Haunt Artist

The sculptor Tom Otterness loses a contract in San Francisco.

November 17, 2011 11:18 AM ET

Newly Surfaced Tagore Manuscript Up for Auction

The manuscript includes poems and song lyrics and could fetch $250,000.

November 14, 2011

Margaret Atwood Named Mentor in Rolex Arts Program

Under the program, six mentors choose and work with emerging young talents.

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Award Unites Artists, Collectors and a Museum

By REYHAN HARMANCI

An auxiliary club of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has created a prize that brings together Bay Area artists, collectors and the museum.

Critic's Notebook

Bronx Park East, a new housing project by Jonathan Kirschenfeld, contains 68 small but self-contained apartments.

Imagining Housing for Today

By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN

Bronx Park East, a single-room occupancy residence, opens new possibilities for housing stock in New York.

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Al Boeke, Architect Who Sought Ecological Harmony, Is Dead at 88

By DENNIS HEVESI

Mr. Boeke tried to blend homes into the landscape in places like Sonoma County, Calif., and Oahu in Hawaii.

Pat Passlof, Abstract Expressionist Painter, Dies at 83

By MARGALIT FOX

Ms. Passlof, who has a gallery show opening this Saturday in Chelsea, was known for her thick brush strokes and luminous color.

A porcelain water carafe designed by Aldo Bakker for Thomas Eyck.

Keyed to Detail, No Matter How Crazy

By ALICE RAWSTHORN

For the Dutch designer Aldo Bakker, the little things translate into intelligent design.

An Outpost for Old Spain in the Heights

By FELICIA R. LEE

The Hispanic Society of America is making changes to raise its profile and to connect better with its Latino neighborhood.

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Bruce Nauman's “Green Light Corridor” (1970), left, and Harry Gamboa Jr.'s “Tree in the Galaxie” (1978).

A New Pin on the Art Map

By ROBERTA SMITH

“Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980” is a cacophonous, synergistic, sometimes bizarre colossus of exhibitions on view throughout the Los Angeles region.

Norton Dodge Dies at 84; Stored Soviet Dissident Art

By MARGALIT FOX

Mr. Dodge, an economics professor, made many trips to the Soviet Union during which he often collected nonconformist art under authentic cover of scholarly research.

Arts | Long Island

Coded Messages

By MARTHA SCHWENDENER

The works of Rimer Cardillo, a Uruguayan printmaker and graphic artist, employ insects, birds and burial sites to inform viewers of their global engagement.

Critic’s Notebook

The Museum of the Great War in Meaux, France, includes field reproductions to evoke the way life was lived during it.

Bringing the War Home

By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN

The emphasis of the new Museum of the Great War in Meaux, France, is less on the battles than on evoking the atmosphere of the war and its time.

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Inside Art

Five murals Diego Rivera created for MoMA in 1931, including “Frozen Assets,” above, are reuniting there.

Museum of Modern Art Reunites Rivera Murals

By CAROL VOGEL

The Museum of Modern Art reunites most of the murals from Diego Rivera’s famous 1931 exhibition; installation art by David Brooks in Times Square’s “last lot.”

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<strong>Cecil Beaton: The New York Years</strong> at the Museum of the City of New York includes Beaton's photograph of Cole Porter, from 1953.

A Conjurer of Beautiful People, Back in Town

By KEN JOHNSON

The work of Cecil Beaton, who captured an age and a social class with his camera and designed for the stage and films, is the subject of a new exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York.

Museum and Gallery Listings for Nov. 18-24

Inside Art

“Bird,” by Jacco Olivier, one of six animation installations that will be on display in Madison Square Park starting Dec. 15.

Highlighting Influence of Asia Behind Artwork

By CAROL VOGEL

“Sarah Sze: Infinite Line” at Asia Society will focus specifically on the artist’s work on paper; the Dutch artist Jacco Olivier will have six outdoor animation installations on view at Madison Square Park.

Antiques

Two Marie Zimmermann works: a steel dagger, with precious and semiprecious stones, and an Egyptian-inspired box.

Arts and Crafts Pioneer Is Subject of New Book

By EVE M. KAHN

A new scholarly book chronicles the life and work of Marie Zimmermann, who sought to prove that women could forge a career in metalsmithing.

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‘Hide/Seek’

Photos from the exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum.

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From Elephants to Bishops

Discovered in Scotland more than 800 years ago, the Lewis chess set, featured in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," is now on display at the Cloisters.

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Inside the New Clyfford Still Museum

Sandra Still Campbell narrates a look at a new museum in Denver that is dedicated to the work of her father, the artist Clyfford Still.

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Where No Museum Has Gone Before

A sneak peek at the exhibition “Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Exploration,” which opens Saturday at the American Museum of Natural History.

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‘Pacific Standard Time’

A look at some of the works on display in “Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980.”

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Fine Arts & Exhibits

Big museum shows, love affairs and art all night.

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Lounge Act | Moss and Maharam

November 10, 2011

Now Showing | 'Mobilier National'

November 8, 2011

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Collector as Artist: The Barnes Foundation

Take an interactive tour with Randy Kennedy through the Barnes Foundation, one of America’s strangest art museums since the day its doors opened in 1925.