NEW YORK.- The exhibition "The Artist’s Eye: Jane Freilicher as Curator," is the sixth in a series of artist-selected shows at the National Academy of Design Museum, on view through September 22. This show proves that artists look at other people’s art more intensely and from more angles than the average art-loving citizen. They are implicitly demanding, even selfish, and ever alert to everything from historical validation and inspiration to technical cues and simple companionship is no exception. Ms. Freilicher has been known since the early 1950’s for reserved but opulently colored still lifes and landscapes. Ranging in date from the mid-19th century to the late 20th, and including landscapes, still lifes and portraits, they form a compelling, if conservative, meditation on painting technique, subject matter and the academy’s history. Thirteen of her own paintings — delicately toned views of New York City, often at dusk — are on view in a side gallery.