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If you like the work of Richard Serra, be sure to head to the MoMA this summer. Starting today at the museum, Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years is on exhibition. The retrospective includes his early work in rubber and lead, as well as two works from the 90s displayed in the MoMA's sculpture garden, and three new pieces. Serra, born in California, is mostly known for his minimalist work with large steel plates.

Yesterday afternoon, the midtown walls outside the Museum of Modern Art and surrounding buildings were bathed in a beautiful, expansive new video installation from artist Doug Aitken. The work, Doug Aitken: sleepwalkers, was commissioned by both the MoMA and Creative Time, and it turns the museum into public art space. A total of eight screens (outside the MoMA on West 53rd Street, in an empty lot onto Museum of Folk Art's exterior wall, and on the MoMA's walls on West 54th) show the stories of five different New Yorkers.

We got a peek at the newly named Philip Johnson Terrace, part of Museum Tower, the Cesar Pelli-designed residential building next to the Museum of Modern Art (Pelli designed the new federal courthouse in downtown Brooklyn).

For all its glorious ambiguities, aesthetic theory can be broken down into this: there are two kinds of art – art meant to inspire and art meant to amaze. Tim Hawkinson, whose work currently fills the fifth floor of the Whitney Museum as well as the off-site Whitney Sculpture Garden, creates art with a strong bent towards the latter.