Helen Frankenthaler

OCTOBER To Oct. 12 -- Jack King. Mixed media sculptures. Portraits of the Golden Age of Jazz. Photographs by William P. Gottlieb. Eissey. To Oct. 14 -- Alterego. Artwork by the most recent crop of Artists-in-Residence: Trisha Brookbank, Monica Hernandez,...

CRITIC'S PICKS Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era (Through Sept. 16 at the Whitney Museum of Art, Manhattan). The art of psychedelia was about eye-popping colors, free-form ooze, obsessive fantasies, altered consciousness and the broadening of...

Picture this: Watery light filtering through stained-glass windows. Shimmering cornfields depicted in Colonial drawings. Ships sailing up the James River. Listen carefully, and you might hear these images in musical compositions. All served as...

When Grace Hartigan was a little girl, she was bewitched by gypsies. In the 1930s, the Travelers still roamed the countryside in nomadic caravans, and young Grace would shinny up the apple tree in her parents' backyard in Newark, N.J., to spy on them....

The Eastern Shore and art? To most outsiders, that usually means only one thing: ducks. Duck paintings. Duck sculptures. Duck decoys. But look beyond the surface and you'll discover a region that's redefining itself -- quite rightly -- as a serious arts...

Daily, artists labor to capture Cape Cod's quality of light, expanse of sky and sweeping seascapes. The resulting paintings, watercolors, photographs, pottery and sculptures have shaped the Cape's sense of itself and the world's sense of the Cape. Surely...

MUSEUMS QUEENS No listings this week. MANHATTAN AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM. "The Perfect Game: America Looks at Baseball," more than 100 objects, through Feb. 1, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday (until 8 p.m. Friday; free 6-8 p.m.), 45 W. 53rd St., $9,...