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      Egon Schiele’s Hidden Obsessions Laid Bare

      The Austrian Expressionist’s portraits and erotically charged nudes have masked another side of his career: his eccentric landscapes.

       By Deborah Solomon

      Egon Schiele’s painting “Town Among Greenery (the Old City III),” 1917, at the Neue Galerie.
      Egon Schiele’s painting “Town Among Greenery (the Old City III),” 1917, at the Neue Galerie.
      CreditEgon Schiele; via Neue Galerie New York

  1. Who’s Laughing Now? Banana-as-Art Sells for $6.2 Million at Sotheby’s

    A conceptual artwork by Maurizio Cattelan, “Comedian,” is just a fruit-stand banana taped on the wall. But 7 bidders were biting. It went to a crypto entrepreneur.

     By Zachary Small

    Maurizio Cattelan’s ‘‘Comedian,’’ a conceptual art piece during a preview at Sotheby’s auction house in New York. It sold for $6.2 million with fees.
    CreditJustin Lane/EPA, via Shutterstock

  2. The Artist, the Gallerist and Their Liver

    Far from the dizzying auctions, splashy galas and angling dealers, a precious gift sheds light on a gentler way the art world works.

     By Ray Mark Rinaldi

    Jennifer Doran and Derrick Velasquez at Doran’s gallery, Robischon, in Denver. Velasquez is one of the gallery’s artists.
    CreditDaniel Brenner for The New York Times

  3. Robert Frank, a Filmmaker Who Never Stopped Changing

    The photographer renounced his first career to focus on filmmaking. Starting Wednesday, the Museum of Modern Art will stage a cinema retrospective of his uncompromising search for the real.

     By Max Norman

    A scene from “Me and My Brother” (1965-68), Robert Frank’s first feature. A young Christopher Walken plays a director making a film-within-the-film.
    CreditThe June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation/The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
    Critic’s Notebook

  4. At the Met, Black Artists Salute an Enduring Affinity With Egypt

    A shimmering dream on the Nile has inspired creativity from the Harlem Renaissance to Kara Walker to Beyoncé. But how much can you play with the past?

     By Jason Farago

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    Critic’s Pick

  5. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in November

    This week in Newly Reviewed, Jillian Steinhauer covers Narcisa Hirsch’s impressionistic films, Janet Olivia Henry’s doll characters and a group show that takes on TV.

     By Jillian Steinhauer and Martha Schwendener

    A still from “Media Burn,” a 1975 film by Ant Farm.
    Creditvia Chip Lord, Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) and carriage trade

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  4. Chasing the Perfect Photograph in Amish Country

    In his mission to document the earth’s food supply, George Steinmetz recovers the human element in aerial photography — and in farming. Ahead of his new book, he brings our critic into the field.

    By Walker Mimms

     
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  7. ICA Boston Names Its Next Director

    Nora Burnett Abrams, the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, will take over from Jill Medvedow in the spring.

    By Hilarie M. Sheets

     
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