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Exhibitions Explained: Solo, Group, Retrospective, and More
A plain-English glossary of the exhibition types you see on gallery walls, and what each one asks of the artist.

A plain-English glossary of the exhibition types you see on gallery walls, and what each one asks of the artist.

Commercial galleries are free, need no appointment, and welcome browsers; a first walk through West Chelsea's 200-plus doors needs only four moves.

Marfa, Beacon, and Provincetown each turned cheap space and one committed institution into small-town economies that run on art.

The hammer price is the winning bid; buyer's premiums, seller commissions and United States resale law decide who actually keeps the money.

Art critics look, describe, and judge. Here is what actually happens when a critic reviews a show, from first notes to published review.