Art and Design: Whats the Buzz from The New York Times

Here is the latest Art and Design News from The New York Times.

Six Not-to-Miss Shows at the Venice Architecture Biennale
T’s picks for the most interesting pavilions at the 15th edition of the fair, whose theme this year is “Reporting From the Front.”

Campaign Underway to Save a Queen Elizabeth Portrait
Owners of one of three “Armada” portraits are planning to sell the work; some are raising money to buy it, to keep it in Britain.

Arts | Westchester: At the Rockefellers’ Kykuit, Painterly Gardens and a Rosy Legacy
Tours of the Pocantico Hills, N.Y., estate offer a deep dive into the elegance in which one of America’s most powerful families lived.

Art Review: Your Last Chance to See One of New York’s Great Gallery Spaces
The final Artists Space exhibition at 38 Green Street stars Lukas Duwenhögger, a mesmerizing German artist who is barely known in this country.

An Artist Explores the Lives of Girls Labeled Difficult
In her latest film, “Rudzienko,” Sharon Lockhart explores the emotions and self-expression of girls in Poland.

Olafur Eliasson Envisions a Spectacle in Versailles
For his next installation, the artist has turned to the palace near Paris and its majestic gardens.

‘Fun on the Farm’ in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park
Children can make goat’s milk ice cream with an old-fashioned hand-cranked device and take a Bleat and Greet Goat Tour.

Le Nain Brothers’ Prescient Work at Kimbell Art Museum
“The Brothers Le Nain: Painters of Seventeenth-Century France” illuminates one of the greatest, least-known sources of modern realism.

Museum & Gallery Listings for May 20-26

Antiques: A Renewed Spotlight on Two Women Artists
A blogger has discovered works by the painter Lilias Trotter; and a German museum is publishing a book about Käthe Kollwitz’s sculptures, which are on display.

Art Review: Cao Fei Captures Modern Malaise in a Series of Inventive Videos
The show at MoMA PS1 is an enthralling survey of this Chinese artist’s career.

Inside Art: David Zwirner Is Selected to Display the Works of Josef Albers
The Zwirner gallery will also open an exhibition of the great colorist’s work in November.

Art Review: Placement Is Politics in Brooklyn Museum Reinstallation
Art museums are political, whether they want to be or not.

Art Review: A Rich Feast of Folk Art at the New-York Historical Society
The tale of Elie and Viola Nadelman’s collection is a riveting combination of wealth, aesthetic passion and cruel fate.

Five Things to Know About London’s Biggest Photography Bonanza
Photo London, which opens today, is the U.K.’s largest photography event ever — and draws exhibitors from all over the world.

Greenpeace Protest of BP Forces British Museum to Close
Protesters of the oil company’s sponsoring of “Sunken Cities, Egypt’s Lost Worlds” cited climate change.

Rebecca Rabinow, Met Curator, Departing to Lead Menil Collection
Raised in Houston, Dr. Rabinow is departing after more than 25 years at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

No Direction, No Restriction: D.A. Pennebaker Looks Back at a Dylan Documentary
The filmmaker reflects on the creation of his unflinching documentary filmed during Mr. Dylan’s 1965 tour of England, the subject of a new exhibition.

David King, Collector of Soviet Political Art, Dies at 73
Mr. King, a graphic designer, drew on his collection for books on Trotsky and the Stalin era. He also produced album covers for the Who and the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

Pigeon Protest: Free the Brooklyn Navy Yard 2,000
Animal rights advocates want to shut the art show “Fly by Night,” which uses pigeons with lights strapped to their legs to illuminate the sky.

Brooklyn Museum Offers Staff Buyouts
The museum is facing a budget deficit of about $3.5 million.

Contemporary Art Sales: What a Difference a Year Makes
At their auctions of contemporary art last week, Sotheby‘s and Christie’s realized a fraction of their blockbusters of 2015.

Conceptual Art’s Long Shadow
An exhibition at Tate Britain in London explores a radical time of ideas and creativity.

Darwyn Cooke, Comic Book Artist With a Retro Take, Dies at 53
Mr. Cooke rebelled against the increasingly dark nature comic book superheroes took on in the post-millennial years.

One Visionary Architect’s Own Best Subject: Himself
In a new show of François Dallegret’s imaginative design work — soap, cars, nightclubs and more — years’ worth of self-portraits steal the show.

Romaldo Giurgola, Architect of Australia’s Parliament House, Dies at 95
Mr. Giurgola combined a Modernist aesthetic with a keen sense of the site-specific in his projects, from office buildings to Australia’s 1988 seat of government in Canberra.

Louisa Chase, Painter of Geometric Shapes and Body Parts, Dies at 65
Ms. Chase was given a solo show at Artists Space in 1975, the same year she received her master’s degree from Yale.

ABC No Rio Gears Up for a Razing and a Brand-New Home
The cultural center, which took root on what was then a decidedly scrappy Rivington Street 36 years ago, is moving out to make way for construction of a new home.

Palestinian Museum Prepares to Open, Minus Exhibits
A $24 million building will open in the West Bank on Wednesday, but its inaugural display was suspended after a disagreement between its board and its director, who lost his position.

Marilyn Monroe’s Musings, Letters and Lipstick to Be Auctioned
A wide-ranging collection of the legendary actress’s personal effects will begin a worldwide tour this month before being auctioned in November.

Damien Hirst to Open a Jeff Koons Show at His London Museum
It will be the gallery’s second show after an exhibition of the works of John Hoyland, a British abstract painter who died in 2011.

Short Films to Explore the Art Market
The four films will look at auctions, galleries, patrons and art fairs and will be shown on Artsy and UBS Art Studio.

A Collector’s-Eye View of the Auctions
Adam Lindemann, who sold a Jean-Michel Basquiat at Christie’s for $57.3 million last week, dissects the action at the New York sales.

A Sirius Satellite Founder to Give Keynote at Moogfest, Protesting Bias Law
Martine Rothblatt, a transgender woman, will speak out against North Carolina’s bathroom law at the music and technology festival.

Yve Laris Cohen, Melding Identities as Laborer and Artist
Mr. Cohen’s Company Gallery performance-exhibition is the re-creation of Isamu Noguchi’s set for the Martha Graham dance “Embattled Garden.”

Review: SFMoMA’s Expansion Sets a New Standard for Museums
It’s not just the abundance of art gifts but the continual surprises of the building’s design and details.

Martin Friedman, Whose Vision Shaped Walker Art Center, Dies at 90
Mr. Friedman remade a Minnesota landmark into a cultural destination, and after retirement delighted Manhattan with art at Madison Square Park.

François Morellet, French Abstract Artist, Dies at 90
Mr. Morellet, who used unorthodox materials and incorporated kinetics in his sculptures, sought to make art that would “make it possible for the observer to find what he wants.”

In Hong Kong, Preserving Mementos of a Protest Movement
A collective has gathered many works spawned by pro-democracy demonstrations in the city in 2014 but is trying to determine what to do with the material.

Daniel Buren Morphs Louis Vuitton Foundation Into ‘Observatory of Light’
The French artist’s latest canvas has covered the Paris museum’s 12 glass-paneled “sails” with a checkerboard of translucent colored gels, punctuated by panes of white stripes.

Impressionist and Modern Works at Christie’s Stir Little Excitement
The auction house raised $141.5 million, including fees, from the sale of works by Monet, Modigliani and other artists from the 19th and 20th centuries.