The Metropolitan Museum announced on Thursday that it had broken records: 5.68 million people visited its Fifth Ave. location, its Cloisters museum and its gardens in the past fiscal year. The number marked the most visitors the Met has had in 40 years.

Artists' lists at the Morgan, the act of erasure at Magnan Metz, and a garden grows (inside a trailer) in Brooklyn. And since the mercury is rising and we could all use air-con, artsy films at IFC Center and the Museum of Arts & Design. There's lots going on in the arts world in the big, sweaty city. Here's what we'll be looking at.

An array of floating paper guns, paintings that chronicle Picasso's 17-year-old lover and muse, smashed up cars, sculptural drawings, public interventions and a quilt that pays tribute to the military's fallen. There's a whole lot of art going on in New York this week. Here's our guide to what's cooking.

Picasso's guitars, Cézanne's card players, abstraction and the Arctic, not to mention a wonderful documentary about hobo graffiti. New York has got it going on this week. Here is WNYC's guide to what's tops.