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The article focuses on the sale by Keith de Lellis, a dealer in vintage photography, of his apartment in Upper East Side, New York and his move in a new apartment in Central Park New York. It states that de Lellis wanted to live within walking distance of his gallery in Madison Avenue that is why he moved in another apartment. The article adds that the new apartment was sold to him in the summer for $891,000.

The article offers information on the career of abstract artist Arpita Singh. It says that the artist began on being an abstract artist and switch on being a painter of folklore scenes showing the daily life in Bengal, India. It states that her works reflects the sectarian wars in India and the violence against women. It mentions that the artist joins in the watercolor show where in she displays his works.

''Museums are like the family sepulchers of works of art,'' wrote Theodor Adorno, the 20th-century German philosopher, who pointed out that ''museum'' and ''mausoleum'' even sound alike. ''Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film and Video,'' a Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition of 17 contemporary works inspired by museums, all from the Met's collection, doesn't mention Adorno by name. But it nods toward him in an introductory wall text telling us that although artists generally want to see their work in museums, ''they may joke among themselves with gallows humor that museums are mausoleums, places where art goes to die.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Art Museums and galleries are in Manhattan unless otherwise noted. Full reviews of recent art shows: nytimes.com/art. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Frame column on Friday, about viewing things in New York City as unintentional works of art, misstated how high the subway across the Manhattan Bridge is above the city in citing the view. It is 135 feet, not 300 feet. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]