The big picture.

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• Morandi Returns to Earth An Italian master at the Met.
  Christopher Benfey Sept. 24, 2008
  
• Art or Not The Brooklyn Museum crowd-sources a photography exhibition.
  Mia Fineman July 16, 2008
  
• Whistler's Velvet Revolution The art of painting softly.
  Christopher Benfey July 9, 2008
  
• Industrial-Strength Art The photographers who found beauty in the factory.
  Christopher Benfey June 4, 2008
  
• Drawn-Out Process Philip Guston's brave evolution from Abstract Expressionist to comics-inspired draftsman.
  Mia Fineman May 14, 2008
  
• Spain's Greatest Living Painter The haunting Realism of Antonio López García.
  Christopher Benfey April 30, 2008
  
• The New Emperor of No-Brow Is Takashi Murakami Japan's Andy Warhol—or its Walt Disney?
  Mia Fineman April 16, 2008
  
• Seven Mysteries of China Is porcelain addictive?
  Christopher Benfey April 2, 2008
  
• When Frank Stella Met Benjamin Moore The art you can make with paint from a can.
  Mia Fineman March 19, 2008
  
• Irving Penn He photographed the most important artists of the last half-century—and in the process joined their ranks.
  Philip Gefter Feb. 29, 2008
  
• Poussin's Dark Passions A god of French painting comes to America.
  Christopher Benfey Feb. 20, 2008
  
• Naked Ambition Why doesn't Spencer Tunick get any respect?
  Mia Fineman Jan. 16, 2008