After months of speculation over whether the Brooklyn Museum’s crowdsourcing experiment would work, the museum’s efforts have resulted in a 5-person (Adrian Coleman, Oliver Jeffers, Naomi Safran-Hon, Gabrielle Watson, and Yeon Ji Yoo) group show. Now that the works are on view, it’s a good time to reflect on the “community-curated” exhibition.

On our recent outing to Chelsea’s 26th street galleries, we visited James Cohan Gallery, Lehmann Maupin, and Galerie Lelong. We were disappointed.

Sascha Braunig (Foxy Production) gives us reason to wonder whether op art should be spooky or bizarre; Thomas Barrow (Derek Eller Gallery) makes confused sculptures; and Michael Waugh (Winkleman Gallery) falls out of a boat.

Can’t sleep at night for all the burning ideas you have about art? Time to write a few of those words down.

Art Fag City is now accepting pitches in two areas: Art outside New York and Net art.

In this week’s #longreads, we take you to the entrance of Radical Software’s back catalog.

Chelsea may have reopened last week, but hurricane recovery’s still a long way off.

This week, shows go out with a bang. We’re about to witness Flux Factory’s final Death Match, the Artist’s Institute’s final Haim Steinbach event, and the complete trilogy of Olaf Breuning’s “Home.”