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Lengthy Layover at the Frick for Parmigianino Portrait

It’s Really Real!
The art world learns that a Vermeer painting, long suspected to be a fraud, is the genuine article

Shock of the Old: Christopher Dresser

About a Boy: Picasso’s Boy with a Pipe, a Rose period masterpiece, tops the $100 million mark and becomes the most expensive artwork sold at auction

Up on the Roof: Stone Houses, Andy Goldsworthy’s new installation at the Met, takes a commanding view

CultureWatch: Val Castronovo takes in the Guggenheim show of the sculptor Brancusi , known as a “genius of omission” for his radical simplification of form.

Portraits of Bohemia: The Jewish Museum brings Modigliani back to New York for a solo exhibition, the first major show of the artist’s work in the city in more than 50 years

Fra Carnevale: Not a household name but central to our understanding of Renaissance painting, a new exhibit at The Met proclaims

Michelangelo's First Painting; a little-known work has its American premiere at the Met

The O’Keeffe show at the Whitney is the first to study, and celebrate, her abstract works

Ladies and Gentlemen, The Starn Brothers Present Big Bambú: You Can’t, You Won’t, and You Don’t Stop

Van Cleef & Arpels Haute Jewelry Show at the Cooper-Hewitt Extended

She Was Just 17; The Gagosian Gallery Presents Picasso and Marie-Thérèse: L'amour fou

Celebrating Dickens' Bicentennial at the Morgan Library

Red Grooms at the Marlborough: New York, 1976-2011