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A Canvas of Wood, Chain Saws as Brushes	Art	7/22/2008 11:52 PM
As the popularity of chain-saw carvings increases, the man who claims he invented it is still carving strong after more than 50 years.
Abroad: Berliners Get a Crash Course in Glittery Celebrity Culture	Art	7/22/2008 12:59 PM
Germany has long been funny about celebrity, which makes the show at the Helmut Newton Foundation a particularly fascinating and revealing exercise.
New House, Available for Delivery, Convenient to Museum	Art	7/22/2008 1:03 PM
Burst* 008, a full-scale house for the Museum of Modern Art, was a photo finish for its two architects, Jeremy Edmiston and Douglas Gauthier.
Art: Yeats Meets the Digital Age, Full of Passionate Intensity	Poetry and Poets	7/21/2008 1:40 PM
A digital resurrection allows Yeats to stride again along the hinge of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Art: Leaves Speak; a Journalist Listens	Writing and Writers	7/18/2008 11:47 AM
Janet Malcolm, using camera more than pen, conveys her fascination with burdock.
Art Review \| ‘After Nature’: Sometimes the Darkest Visions Boast the Blackest Humor	Art	7/18/2008 9:11 PM
“After Nature,” the big new show at the New Museum, is a strange, lugubrious, wildly uneven dream of an exhibition.
Video: 5,000 Years of Chairs in 5 Minutes		7/18/2008 5:13 PM
A five-minute slide show featuring the unvarnished charm of all the chairs I've snapped on my travels ...
Design Review \| ‘Home Delivery’: Instant Houses, Then and Now	Architecture	7/18/2008 11:59 AM
The Modern makes a convincing case that prefabricated housing was both a central theme of Modernist history and a dream that remains very much alive today.
Art Review \| 'Muraqqa': An Emperors’ Art: Small, Refined, Jewel Toned	Art	7/17/2008 9:38 PM
A show at the Sackler Gallery in Washington showcases 82 rarely seen paintings, of the most elegant and refined variety, that were commissioned by Mughal emperors.
Art in Review	Hopper, Edward	7/17/2008 11:48 PM
Edward Hopper at Craig F. Starr Gallery, David Ellis at Roebling Hall, Fia Backstrom at White Columns and more.