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Elizabeth Murray embraced Pop Art’s playfulness without succumbing to chilly detachment.

How Van Gogh rendered his flickery world in the hard lines of pen and ink.

Our buildings are boring, our cultural institutions tentative, our sex lives constrained. Maybe a world-class city shouldn’t be quite so thoroughly babyproofed.

Masterpieces abound in the Guggenheim’s �Russia!��but it all seems too official.

The mad geniuses of �Obsessive Drawing� doodle around the outside edges of outsider art.

One could easily have written off Joan Snyder as too earnest and cuddly. But there’s steel under those warm fuzzies.

The Guggenheim’s Mapplethorpe exhibit places the artist in a Mannerist frame.

The Matisse and Cézanne shows prove that smart curators can refresh even the most overexposed artists.

The Whitney brings a little of Robert Smithson’s outward-looking art back into the white box.

Two ICP shows demonstrate that the earliest photographers were artists as well as technicians.