An owner of a missing $1.35 million painting, whose criminal past has just become known, has been reached, at the apartment of the other owner.

An owner of a $1.35 million painting by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot filed suit after the work went missing, then withdrew the lawsuit when the criminal past of the painting’s co-owner surfaced.

In an effort to build an identity, hotels like the James in SoHo are hiring curators to select original artworks to adorn their walls.

Jack Schwartz cleans a fish with alcohol before making gyotaku, a Japanese print. He applies paint to a sponge, then to the fish, then presses handmade paper to its body.The work of Jack Schwartz, who uses a Japanese technique that is centuries old to print detailed images of fish, is on display at the John P. Humes Japanese Stroll Garden in Mill Neck.

After decades of providing apartments to artists and others, the corporation that runs Carnegie Hall will begin converting the space for educational purposes.

A few exhibitions around Manhattan this summer afford an opportunity to contemplate what public sculpture should do.

“Corpor Esurit,” a work by Elizabeth Demaray at Exit Art, involves red harvester ants being given an all-McDonald’s diet for a month.A Brooklyn artist has given red harvester ants, Pogonomyrmex badius, an all-McDonald’s menu.

Jen ’n Outlaw’s Fish Fry Truck and Crawfish Boil is a roving outpost of Southern cooking skills in New York City.

Robin Parness Lipson is trying to found a new museum devoted to emerging artists.

Funky artwork and thrift-store discoveries may start conversations, but they can hold up the sale of an apartment.