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Art in Review. Andreas Gursky at Matthew Marks, Al Held at Paul Kasmin Gallery, Neil Jenney at Barbara Mathes and more.

Antiques: Where Every Room’s a Holiday, by Design. A smorgasbord of antiques is on view at Holiday House, now in use as a decorator show house on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

Inside Art. The Inside Art column will return next week.

Bette S. Garber Dies at 65; Saw the Beauty in Big Rigs. Among the small but lively fraternity of photojournalists who specialize in documenting trucks and truckers, Ms. Garber was considered the foremost in the country.

Billionaire Offers Arts Bailout in Los Angeles. The philanthropist Eli Broad has offered $30 million to help rescue the Museum of Contemporary Art if the trustees and other patrons also step up their donations.

The Battle of Washington Square. A transformed park is poised to open, yet opponents of the redesign refuse to lay down their arms. Who really owns the city’s beloved public spaces?

Art Review: In Her Hands, Naturalism Won Out. A retrospective of sculpture by Bessie Potter Vonnoh offers visitors an unusual opportunity to study the work of a talented yet largely forgotten artist.

Art Review: Drawings With a Message About Political Power. A retrospective of the work of Melanie Baker captures politicians’ gestures and shows the trappings of office.

Art: Saving That Landscape, in Pictures at Least. An advocate emerges to protect the often disregarded plaza, garden and scenic memorial.

Layers of Devotion (and the Scars to Prove It). The physicist-turned artist Enrique Martínez Celaya has bled for his work. Literally.

Television Review | 'The Rape of Europa': Art, Lost and Found. “The Rape of Europa,” a documentary, released last year, about the Nazi pillaging of art and the Allied effort to return it, airs on PBS stations on Monday.

Public Shows Support for California Art Museum. Some 450 visitors gathered at the Museum of Contemporary Art to offer the first organized, public show of support for the 25-year-old museum.

In Qatar, an Art Museum of Imposing Simplicity. There is nothing timid about the ambitions of the new Museum of Islamic Art that opens in Qatar next week.

Karl Bissinger, Portraitist, Dies at 94. Mr. Bissinger’s lustrous black and white portraits created a memorable gallery of the leading figures on the postwar American arts scene.

Century Later, Gold Coin Reflects Sculptor’s Vision. A century-old vision for America’s coinage was finally fully realized on Monday.

Architecture: A Berkeley Museum Wrapped in Honeycomb. The University of California’s proposed new art museum, designed by the Japanese architect Toyo Ito, would be a magical place to view art.

On the Block: Anarchy and Nostalgia. Detritus from the era of the Ramones and the Clash hurtled its way into high culture when Christie’s hosted its first auction devoted to punk memorabilia.

Preserving the City: An Opaque and Lengthy Road to Landmark Status. The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission often takes years to act, an examination shows.

Art Review | 'Sun, Wind and Rain: The Art of David Cox': Weathered but Not Broken: Painter’s Take on Man vs. Nature in Watercolor. Watercolor was all the rage in early-19th-century England, and one of its liveliest practitioners is the subject of this expansive, engaging show.

In Mexico, an Ownership Fight Sends an Art Collection Into Hiding. A legal battle is unfolding over the rightful ownership of a collection of 20th-century Mexican art.

Abroad: Randy Scandinavia? Calm Down, Boys, You’re Misinformed. What happened to the image of Scandinavia as the frigid tundra of hot sex?

100th-Birthday Tributes Pour in for Lévi-Strauss. On Friday, France celebrated the famed anthropologist and author Claude Lévi-Strauss’s centenary with films, lectures and free admission to the museum he inspired.

Preserving the City: Preservationists See Bulldozers Charging Through a Loophole. In a strategy familiar to preservationists, property owners rush to obtain demolition permits so their structures won’t receive landmark protection.

Dubai Provides Iranian Artists a Bridge to the World. At art auctions in Dubai over the past two years, Iranian artists have found an eager market for their work.

Style: The Big Picture. Carsten Holler’s new club in North London recalls the electricity and music of Kinshasa.

Jorn Utzon, 90, Dies; Created Sydney Opera House. Mr. Utzon was an architect who designed one of the world’s most recognizable buildings — the Sydney Opera House — but never saw it finished.

Spotlight: Museum Gives Gift of an Open Door. The Hudson River Museum in Yonkers is offering free admission through Jan. 4.

Art: Arty Subversives Storm the Museum. An art collective turns the Los Angeles County Museum of Art into something of a summer camp.

Rescuing a Landmark From Time and the Elements. Part of the 90-year-old studio of sculptor and Whitney Museum of American Art founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney is being restored.

Crumbling South Bronx as a Muse. Ray Mortenson’s photographs of the South Bronx in the early 1980s are featured in a new exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York.

Preserving the City: Houses of Worship Choosing to Avoid Landmark Status. Many argue that the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission has not done enough to protect churches from the overheated real estate market.

Visitor Center Review: The Pursuit of Expansiveness Guides the Capitol’s New Visitor Center. The new Capitol Visitor Center in Washington has more than doubled the building’s footprint and is expected to increase its annual visitors to more than three million.

Preservation and Development, Engaged in a Delicate Dance. Over a decade of whirlwind development, the Landmarks Preservation Commission has repeatedly played dance partner to a potent mix of preservationists, developers and city politicians.