• Alice Neel’s forthright portraits of her fellow New Yorkers
• The trenchant art criticism of Charles Baudelaire
• Antony Gormley on how sculpture can change the world
• The surreal houses of Edward James
Plus: Dia Art Foundation returns to Chelsea, Eugène Atget’s uncanny photographs of Paris, the future of department stores, the opening of the Frick Madison, and Kaywin Feldman on cultural leadership in the 21st century
What happens when an artist wants to be anonymous?
An Austrian museum is hosting a show by an unnamed artist – but perhaps this act of secrecy will help us see the work more clearly