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Annie Block, Mark McMenamin, and Meghan Edwards -- Interior Design, 5/1/2009 12:00:00 AM

Infinitely Intriguing

Subversive, sure. Hypnotic, certainly. In an almost 30-year career, this German artist has taken her predilection for visual metaphors, culled from society's collective experience, and transformed them into arresting room-engulfing sculptures—installations, really. They'll be among 80 works when "Katharina Fritsch" opens at the Kunsthaus Zurich on June 3. >>More

Mother Africa, Father Time

Squadrons of headless fiberglass mannequins invade New York's Brooklyn Museum on June 26. They're part of "Yinka Shonibare MBE," which features sculpture, painting, photography, and film by a London-based Nigerian whose work tackles themes of contemporary African identity and the interactions between dominant and colonized cultures. >>More

Come Together

Two New York cultural institutions, the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Numismatic Society, spent decades sitting quietly side by side, off a remote stretch of upper Broadway. When the society moved downtown, its 1930 building by H. Brooks Price could be joined with the academy's 1923 home by McKim, Mead & White. >>More

Across Generations

Change is good—except when global warming is involved. "Radical Nature: Art & Architecture for a Changing Planet, 1969–2009," opening at London's Barbican Art Gallery on June 19, brings together 70 photographs, drawings, and commissioned installations by 25 international visionaries, among them Joseph Beuys and Mark Dion. >>More