Andrew Graham-Dixon’s Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane

This magnificent show, on East 79th Street, is up through November 30

Conference helps put prosperous city on par with more sophisticated Chinese centers

Per Kirkeby at Michael Werner Gallery through October 29

Gao Minglu’s Total Modernity and the Avant-Garde in Twentieth-Century Chinese Art

at the Centre Pompidou through September 19

After you read this book, lots of familiar art will look different

Clare Rojas at Prism, Sam Durant at Blum & Poe and Black Swan at Regan Projects

If Johns is our Mallarmé, Rauschenberg is our Walt Whitman.

extended through March 4