Polyphonic Playground: Paintings & Drawings, a solo exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by Cedric Michael Cox at FiveMyles, Brooklyn, New York, on view July 13–27, 2013. These photographs document the installed show.

Transatlantic, by Colum McCann, is a contemporary literary masterpiece. In a year where most fiction has been ordinary, his accomplishment seems that much greater.

It is a hot, late summer, Saturday morning. Mother is sitting at the kitchen table overlooking the back yard. She is wrapped in her pink satin robe as if a chill had enveloped her in winter. She is having her morning coffee.

Many of us were shocked and horrified to learn of David Johnson’s tragic and untimely death last week. David was our colleague, a superb teacher, curator, educator, who enriched the visual arts with his knowledge, hard work and frequent wit.

Photographs from The Archive Louis Zoellar Bickett documenting Aaron Skolnick’s days in New York, June 24–27, 2013: his party at the Lafayette House, the opening of his exhibition “Wayward Bound” at Rare Gallery, and his studio in his absence on July 2.

“He’s SO beautiful,” Andy Warhol swoons in quoted text next to his Day-Glo portrait of O.J. Simpson in “Andy Warhol: Athletes,” a show of commissioned pieces Warhol did in 1977 installed on aqua walls at the Dayton Art Institute.

Since Einstein on the Beach premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in 1976, composer Philip Glass has dedicated much of his time to writing both large-scale works and smaller chamber operas, many of them as prestigious commissions from major opera companies here and abroad.

It wasn’t easy to find the Lenbachhaus Galerie in Munich last summer. We crossed the street and consulted a street map several times but ultimately discovered that the gallery was actually underground and attached to the Subway.

I am Critick, hear me roar, in dudgeon too high to ignore, and I know too much to go back to East Bend.