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It has been a busy year for museum renovations in New York. This autumn, two more enhanced institutions will be unveiled in the city.

The time of the year when museums and galleries pull out all the stops. Here, a long-list of exhibitions that represent the best of the best, featuring David Bowie, Betty Parsons and Lee Lozano, among others.

A new publication from Phaidon offers an in-depth visual study of the ubiquity and diversity of chairs. The book serves as a rigorous encyclopaedia of important designs and an exploration of how we live with, and through, objects.

Writer-director Durga Chew-Bose speaks to Patter about 5 curious facts from the filming of Bonjour Tristesse.

Abstract painting, sculptural miniatures, woven works and garden design. 8 shows to stop by in the warm months ahead.

A directory of recently opened art shows to see this May, June and July.

Read an exclusive extract from this rigorous catalogue of interviews, essays, and unseen archives that explore female athletes and the sweat-stained clothing that has 'borne witness to their greatness.'

Molly Collet measures time passing in winter by looking to magnolia trees in her Brooklyn neighborhood. A eulogy to late winter, which is, by her estimation, one of the most incandescent and yet under-loved times of the year.