Giorgio Morandi, 1890-1964 (Metropolitan Museum, 1000 Fifth Ave., up through Dec. 14). It’s too crowded, too noisy, and poorly hung, but the Met’s Morandi exhibition, the first ever to come to the United States, is still a major event, a retrospective of one hundred and ten paintings and works on paper by one of the greatest and least sufficiently appreciated still-life painters of the twentieth century. Unless you take the trouble to go to Bologna’s Museo Morandi, it’s unlikely that you’ll ever get another chance to see this many Morandis at one time, so pick an off hour, pack a set of earplugs, and dive in (TT).
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
