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Presents the art exhibition "Fight or Flight" at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Featured artists; Highlights of the exhibition.

Reviews the art exhibit "Alberto Casado: Todo Clandestino, Todo Popular" at Art in General, an alternative nonprofit gallery in Manhattan, New York. Description of Casado and his work; Art that will be included in the exhibit.

Matthew Marks Gallery 522 and 502 West 22nd Street, Chelsea [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Once a figure of international renown, Jesus Soto is now mostly remembered as a minor Modernist who worked in the overlap among hard-edge abstraction, kinetic art and Op Art. ''Soto: Paris and Beyond, 1950-1970'' at New York University's Grey Art Gallery will not precipitate a run to revive his reputation, but it does open an interesting window on the mid-20th-century philosophical landscape of modern art. At a time when the Abstract Expressionists were painting monuments of ecstatic selfhood, Soto (1923-2005) disavowed personal expression. His aim was to heighten viewer awareness of the roles played by eyes and bodies in the experience of art and the world at large. Formally his works were invariably suave, but he was more interested in phenomenology than aesthetics -- more in how than what we see. In that sense he anticipated much of what was to come in the art of the past half-century. But by the end of the 1960s his initial radicalism was eclipsed by other avant-garde developments on both sides of the Atlantic. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Previews the art exhibition "The Photorealist Project," by Xavier Veilhan at the National Academy Museum in New York City on December 3, 2004 to January 2, 2005.

Focuses on the National Academy of Design Museum's "The 179th Annual" contemporary exhibition. Featured artists; Art collections; Highlights of the exhibition; Major attractions.