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Collage in Dialogue

Also: The new piano bar So and So’s; Robert Downey, Jr., in “McNeal”; the Philly soul singer Bilal; and more.

An exuberant exhibit shows that, when it comes to art, the community should be known for far more than its furniture.

The Met’s new exhibition on Siena—the first of its kind in America—shows how the possibilities of strange, colorful ooze sparked the Renaissance.

The art endures partly because it’s rooted in the moment—the surrender of one person to another.

Asher Wertheimer was a Jewish tycoon who asked John Singer Sargent to paint him. The results are strange, slippery—and some of the artist’s best work.

Also: Interpol’s “Antics” turns twenty, Kyle Abraham fills Drill Hall, new work by the photographer Jeff Wall, and more.

Luna Luna, Forgotten Fantasy

If the Buddhist art is meant to guide us to enlightenment, it just as often reveals the blood, beauty, and mystery of earthly life.

His still-lifes are at once transcendent and playful, toying constantly with the laws of physical space.