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The article focuses on the trends and activities of various art institutions in the U.S. in 2012. It says that Metropolitan Museum of Art (MoMA) remains silent over its plans for the Whitney's Breuer Building. It discusses various art shows in 2012 including shows featuring the works of Richard Artschwager and Yayoi Kusama at the Whitney Museum, the "Joseph Albers in America: Painting on Paper" exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum, and the "Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde" show at MoMA.

IT has already been a huge crowd pleaser in San Francisco and Paris, and now ''THE STEINS COLLECT: MATISSE, PICASSO AND THE PARISIAN AVANT-GARDE'' is coming to New York, where it opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Tuesday. The exhibition focuses on Gertrude Stein and her brothers, Leo and Michael (as well as Michael's wife Sarah), who settled in Paris in the early years of the 20th century and befriended artists like Matisse and Picasso. Their home became a famous gathering place where they held weekly salons for artists and collectors, scholars, dealers and aristocrats to see the latest examples of what was being produced during those years. And over time the family amassed a formidable collection of paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures that offers a snapshot of a seminal era in the history of art. The exhibition showcases the Steins' collection, with both well-known and obscure images that total around 200 paintings, sculpture and works on paper. The show begins with the art Leo Stein collected when he moved to Paris in 1903 -- paintings and prints by Cezanne, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Manet and Renoir -- and goes on to chronicle the family's acquisitions in subsequent years, examining the close relationships they formed with many of the artists they encountered. Through June 3, (212) 535-7710, metmuseum.org. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Exhibitions at Asia Society often reveal an unfamiliar dimension to an artist's work. When the society presented a show about the Japanese neo-Pop artist Yoshitomo Nara last year, for example, it examined how his passion for music influenced his art. A new exhibition by the installation artist Sarah Sze will explore her process and her interest in traditional Chinese painting. ''Sarah Sze: Infinite Line,'' which runs Dec. 13 to March 25, will focus specifically on the artist's works on paper. And for the first time, Asia Society's large window facing Park Avenue, by 70th Street, will be uncovered so that passers-by will be able to see a site-specific installation Ms. Sze (pronounced ZEE) has created for the space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WHITE PLAINS THE diversity of work created by ceramic artists from around the region -- from clay formed so finely it resembles furled paper to orbs that appear immovable in their massiveness -- is currently on view in ''Earth,'' an exhibition at ArtsWestchester's Arts Exchange here, presented in cooperation with Clay Art Center in Port Chester. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Presents several art exhibitions in New York. "Two Sculptures for a Room by Palermo," by Gerhard Richter; Works of artists Richard Artschwager and Ed Ruscha; "Works on Paper, 1957-1964," by Robert Ryman.

The article presents information on the art exhibition by Michael Mazur in Manhattan. For one who started out under the spell of the gloomy graphic artist and sculptor Leonard Baskin, Mazur has come a distance. Primarily known as a printmaker, he is also a draftsman, sculptor and painter. The canvases and works on paper seem to have progressed beyond the Chinese influence to a looser, more open handling of paint and space. The resulting exuberance and canvases are less structured, their sunnier colors and freer linear forms floating in a limitless expanse.