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The article discusses the photography of photographers Andrew Moore, Cédric Delsaux, and Peter Bialobrzeski. It examines themes of decrepitude, relics, and past civilizations in their art. Several books are discussed including "Detroit Disassembled," by Moore, "A Common Destiny: A Photographic Journey Through a Changing World," by Delsaux, and "Neon Tigers," by Bialobrzeski.

Features the exhibition of photographer Frederic Brenner held at the Brooklyn Museum of Art from October 2003 to March 2004. Brenner's experience of traveling to Jerusalem and to Jewish communities in Manaus, Tajikistan, Johannesburg and Las Vegas; Depiction of the social condition of the Jewish Diaspora; Release of his book "Diaspora: Homelands in Exile."

Focuses on painter Jean-Simeon Chardin. Life and works of Chardin; Characteristics of Chardin's oil paintings; Background on the Chardin exhibition at the London, England-based Royal Academy; Relationship with the Rococo movement.

Features the touring exhibition, entitled `Images of the Spirit,' a retrospective of the works of contemporary Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide. Accompanying book `Images of the Spirit: Photographs'; Point of reference for her photography; Characteristic themes of her portrait subjects.

Opinion. Comments on the photographs which Weegee took for the New Nork tabloids from 1935 to 1945. Description of these photographs; Information on Weegee's free-lance crime scenes; Reference to the Weegee retrospective held at the International Center of Photography in 1977; Details on Weegee's book `Naked City.'

Focuses on the works of Pierre Bonnard, a French artist, which are on show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York city in July 1998. Popularity of his works; Information on his painting technique; His use of the Impressionist sense of fugitive appearances; Description of the paintings in the exhibition.

Focuses on the photographs of African-American Roy DeCarava. DeCarava's awareness of moments of tension concentrated in single forms; Why his sense of time is considered special; How DeCarava is closely identified with his subjects; What his closeness implies; What type of plan DeCarava operates within; When DeCarava's sensibility became public notice;

Discusses the works of the New York painter Ida Applebroog. Author's views on the painter's works; Analysis of the various modes depicted in her paintings such as comics, pain and others.

Discusses the new interpretation of Gerhard Richter's pictorial strategies. Reaction to European retrospective; Links between the artist's range and machinelike procedures; Generic character of subjects.

Profiles Spanish painter Antonio Lopez. Realist paintings and sculptures; Description of works presented at the Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in summer 1993; Desire to convey the sheer presence of appearances.

A 1985 exhibition in New York, "The Indelible Image: Photographers of War, 1846 to the Present," included photographs by international journalists of the Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Vietnam War, and Middle East conflicts.

Discusses art criticism as experienced by the author. Discernment of the poetics of art vision; Transformation of attitudes through the practical realities of new craft; Representative viewer of genre photographs; Implications of the rules of photographic portraiture. INSET: Max Kozloff. by David Frankel.

Presents a critique of artist Gilless Peress' 1991 color photograph `Cajamarca, Peru.' Beauty of the `convulsive'; South American assignment for `National Geographic' magazine; Context as esoteric; Surrealist resonance; Reference as vivid; Innuendoes of cultic sacrifice and hysteria; Startling effect; Image's thermal cast; Peress' rendering of thee historical continuum of epic violence; Symbolism of the burning of the baby.

The author briefly comments on "The Multimillion Dollar Art Boondogle," an article he wrote for the October 1971 issue of the periodical "Artforum International" in which he criticized the exhibition "Art and Technology" held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Pays tribute to British-born photographer and art critic John Coplans, who died in 2003. Author's recollections of working for Coplans, who was editor in chief of the magazine "Artforum"; Coplans' experiences as a British officer during World War II; Editorial policies that Coplans implemented during his tenure at the magazine.

Commemorates the life and career of David Sylvester, an art critic from Great Britain who died in June 2001. Contributions to the art scene; Significant views on art; Predilections.