“Beyond the Canon: Small Scale American Abstraction, 1945-1965” at the Robert Miller Gallery mixes together unknown gems, golden oldies and undistinguished work.
“Protecting the Word: Bookbindings of the Morgan” presents 55 of about 1,000 books that the Morgan Library & Museum has set aside in its special bindings collection.
“Art and Love in Renaissance Italy” at the Metropolitan Museum promises romance, desire, expensive gift items and possible sex in the land of Romeo and Juliet and delivers on all counts.
Art is selling at this week’s fair in London, but there was a sense that the market was so precarious that a shake-out, when it came, would be far-reaching.