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Installation view of “Solid Doubts: Robert Stadler at The Noguchi Museum,” 2017, at the Noguchi Museum, Long Island City, New York. NICHOLAS KNIGHT/©THE ISAMU NOGUCHI FOUNDATION AND GARDEN MUSEUM, NY AND ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS) H ow might the work of a contemporary artist trained in industrial design match up with a seminal mid-century sculptor trained under Brancusi? Reactions to that question—and many more—are on display in “Solid Doubts: Robert Stadler at the Noguchi Museum” in Queens, New York. “Both of them are interested in creating doubt rather than easy solutions,” Dakin Hart, the Noguchi Museum’s senior curator, said of Stadler and the devotional museum’s namesake, Isamu Noguchi. “They really think the objects that surround them should be subject to questioning and ought to be part of the flow of change rather than resisting change.” The process of pairing work by the late Noguchi and the Austria-born, Paris-based Stadler “was something of a blind date,” Har...

JANINA RAMIREZ and ALASTAIR SOOKE, who present new series  An Art Lovers' Guide  on BBC Four, have very different tastes in art. One has a doctorate in medieval culture (Ramirez), the other is an art critic and expert in all things modern (Sooke). So when they were asked to visit three European cities to select the best art and design hotspots, the resulting picks add up to an unmissable cultural bucket list. With their pick of the sumptuous palaces, exquisite artworks and radical design of Amsterdam, Barcelona and St Petersburg, what did they choose to see? Here the pair reveal five highlights from their first stop: the Netherlands' free-wheeling capital, Amsterdam. Dr Janina Ramirez and Alastair Sooke (Photos by Neil Pollock) 1. Take a ferry to the 'art city' at NDSM Wharf Brazilian street artist Eduardo Kobra (R) and his assistant work on an artwork of Anne Frank at the NDSM shipyards | Getty Alastair:  "Twenty m...