Skillful installation using paint, wallpaper and intimate groupings of furniture, decorative art and paintings rescues an efficiently planned, expertly executed, standardized container from high-tech anonymity.

WSJ: The Metropolitan Museum of Art | American Wing | The New World Reborn | By Ada Louise Huxtable

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FORBES: Picturesque Payne

His engravings, paintings and decorative panels are best appreciated not in a search for their intended meaning but with openness to the emotions they can stir.

WSJ: Gary Geipel: The Late Blooming of Odilon Redon

Not just a decorative scheme, these sculptures and paintings were part of a comprehensive environment conceived and executed by Judd himself.

WSJ: Donald Judd's SoHo Haven

Mr. Heckscher's expertise wasn't originally paintings but architecture and the decorative arts, which are also well represented in several new galleries devoted to furniture and silver.

WSJ: American Idyll

At sales of collections from grandees like Frederick, Prince of Wales, and Princess Amelia, the bourgeoisie bought the oil paintings, bronze sculptures and decorative masterpieces that transformed them into faux aristocrats.

FORBES: In the House

The biggest price increases in recent years have come in contemporary art--particularly Chinese paintings--and in 20th-century decorative arts.

FORBES: The New Breed