Art And Architecture

The American Century, Part II (Whitney Museum) Modern Starts: People, Places and Things (Museum of Modern Art) It’s surprising how few museums are mounting millennial looks back at modernism. But neither of these New York institutions has a Y2K problem. (Sept., Oct.)

Norman Rockwell (High Museum of Art, Atlanta) Who’da thunk it? The master of sentimental squareness gets a bigtime retrospective exhibition–and a catalog essay by Dave Hickey, the ultracool art critic from Las Vegas. (Nov.)

Frank Gehry(University of Cincinnati)(Sept.)

William Eggleston(Getty Museum, Los Angeles) Memphis Bill is one of the first serious photographers to work in color, and the best at turning it into social poetry. (Oct.)

Richard Avedon, Annie Leibovitz Sleek books (“The Sixties,” “Women”) by the king and queen of the celebrity grotesque. Tom Wolfe coined “radical chic,” but Avedon shoots it: Abbie Hoffman giving the finger and looking, well, glamorous. Leibovitz on women is like Hannibal on leadership. Here’s Jerry Hall nursing her son, and Eudora Welty looking at you. (Oct.)