Before a standing-room-only house at the New York Public Library (NYPL) on Wednesday night, curators David Ward and Jonathan Katz made a presentation about the development and installation of Hide/Seek, the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery's (NPG) historic gay-themed exhibit.

Andy Warhol's very long movies at MoMA, rammed earth pillars at the Whitney, a parading Viking ship in Chelsea and some serious girl power in Williamsburg. Here's our guide to the most compelling arts events in NYC in the coming week.

Nostalgic portraits of cowboys, Brazilian street art, a Bertolucci festival with new prints. Here's WNYC's guide to interesting arts happenings going down in the coming week.

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WNYC arts writer Carolina Miranda gives a Miami art fair round-up.

This week in Miami, countless fairs -- including Art Basel Miami Beach -- will be peddling art trinkets big and small in a labyrinthine array of booths. Seven like-minded galleries (most of them from New York) have come together to offer an alternative.

In an enthralling, meticulous solo show, Sculptor Charles LeDray takes familiar objects and shrinks them to elfin proportions.

WNYC's Soterios Johnson talks to Arts Writer Carolina Miranda about how some artists—and one Brooklyn arts blogger—are incorporating vinyl into their work.

Paintings of feet, carvings made of human bone and pod-like installations named after a common garden slug. Here's WNYC's guide to a highly interesting week in New York.

A moody German artist at Gagosian, personal pictures from a Midwest town in DUMBO, idiosyncratic portraits in Harlem, and an augmented reality app brings unicorns to Bushwick. Oh, and did I mention that Charlie Rose and Jay-Z will be doing the Brooklyn Museum? Dear New York City: Bring. It. On.

The graphic paintings of a punk artist, pulp-fiction inspired collage, geometric street art, Nigerian popular videos and a very dirty rendering of Plato at an art book fair in Queens.

Edward Hopper at the Whitney, ghostly silhouettes in Chelsea, and dance at the Judson Memorial Church. Here's WNYC's guide to what's happening now.

Art about art at the Met, late-night gallery night in Bushwick, towers of cardboard in DUMBO and homages to the working life in Queens. Here's WNYC's totally New York guide to what's happening now:

Architectural films in Tribeca, explosive paintings in Chelsea, the totally insane video mash-ups of Jay Rosenblatt at MoMA, and the ladies of pop at the Brooklyn Museum. Here's WNYC's guide to what's happening now:

Newspapers as art at the New Museum, New York's alternative histories in Chelsea, and some incredibly dirty pictures from Jeff Koons. Here's WNYC's very saucy guide to what's happening now.

Intimate photos of a well-known artist's hang-out, 800-year-old Chinese treasures, paintings that blur the boundary between the historical and the contemporary, and art all along 14th street. Here's WNYC's guide to what's going down now:

Moving galleries, ancient Roman mosaics, arts motivational speakers and the recently-discovered negatives of a renowned war photographer. There's lots to do in New York City (and a train ride away) in the coming week. Here's WNYC's guide to the artsy goodness going down now:

For years, some of New York's most prestigious art museums have gotten heat for not featuring enough female artists. A searing 2007 report by Jerry Saltz in New York Magazine revealed that women often made up less than 15 percent of a museum's permanent collection on display. Since then, there has been a move to make up for this imbalance. In fact, this week, a number of local arts institutions have female-heavy rosters.

New York's Latino connection at El Museo del Barrio, the anatomy of kitchens at the Museum of Modern Art, circles deconstructed at David Zwirner, and a golden anniversary at The Pace Gallery. The arts season is rocking and rolling. Here's our guide to what's going on now.