Peter Schjeldahl visits the new Whitney: “The relocated museum makes me surprisingly hopeful for the near future of art in New York.” En savoir plus .
On the Jean Paul Gaultier retrospective: "It pays homage as much to Gaultier’s penchant for spectacle and provocation as it does to his clothing, somewhat ... to the detriment of the latter." En savoir plus .
“Vermeer’s Girl With a Pearl Earring is in New York for the first time since 1984, looking as fresh-faced as ever in a room of her own.” Through Jan. 19, 2014 En savoir plus .
“Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade”: “The show is more than a landmark in the study of decorative arts—it’s a model of how museums can deploy their collections in context.” Through Jan 5. En savoir plus .
On "Walker Evans American Photographs": Evans "made work that was at once plainspoken and eloquent—images that still define something essential and true about America and Americans." Through Jan. 26. En savoir plus .
Ellen Gallagher's "Don't Axe Me": "A 2010 video and slide installation about a shipwreck, housed in a fussily designed black box, is little more than atmospheric." (Through Sept. 15) En savoir plus .
"Imagine this summer’s show at the Guggenheim Museum as air-conditioning for the eye and, if you’re gamely susceptible, the soul." En savoir plus .
This 1832 red-brick row house was home to the Treadwell family for nearly a century. Touring it in 1989, Richard Brookhiser was “struck by the incongruities—austerity side-by-side with lavishness.” En savoir plus .
J. P. Morgan demanded strict safeguards for the rare objects kept here, stating in 1924 that “one soiled thumb could undo the work of nine hundred years, and a misplaced cough could be a disaster.” En savoir plus .
