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Art Review | 'Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present': At MoMA, a Performance Artist Endures
With the opening of ?Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present,? a long-building energy wave of performance art hits the Museum of Modern Art full force.
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Art Review | Otto Dix: At Neue Galerie, a Retrospective of a Deeply German Artist
This retrospective of Otto Dix?s unforgiving art, the first show of its kind ever held in North America, is engrossing yet sadly flawed.
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Art Review | 'Twilight Visions': Shocking Is Poetic at International Center of Photography
Many photographs in this absorbing show at the International Center of Photography set up poetic contrasts between the new and the old.
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Metropolitan Museum?s Western Instruments, in a Shinier Home
The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently reopened its André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments after eight months.
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Art Review | 'To Live Forever': Egyptian Funerary Art and Artifacts at the Brooklyn Museum
The Brooklyn Museum has assembled an exhibition that explores all facets of the Egyptian funerary industry.
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Archive and Historical Society Exhibition for Grateful Dead
An exhibit at the New-York Historical Society is the first large showing of items from the Grateful Dead archive.
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Abroad: Caravaggio in Ascendance: An Antihero?s Time to Shine
By one new metric, Michelangelo has been bumped from his perch atop the Italian art charts by Caravaggio.
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Bruce J. Graham, Chicago Architect Who Designed Sears Tower, Dies at 84
Known for his integration of modernist design and sophisticated engineering in buildings, Mr. Graham played a role in changing Chicago?s skyline.
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Architecture Review: A Paris Tribute to an Almost-Sideways View of the World
There?s something both touching and disturbing at the heart of ?Claude Parent: Graphic and Built Works.?
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Christie?s Wins Bid to Auction $150 Million Brody Collection
The art collection of the Los Angeles philanthropist Frances Lasker Brody will be sold at Christie?s in New York in May.
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Ken Price, Suddenly Dominating New York Galleries
Ken Price remains a remarkably productive sculptor and renderer of graphic, cartoonlike drawings.
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Suicide Raises Legal Issues in Indian Artifacts Cases
The effect of a central federal witness?s death, the third suicide related to a sprawling inquiry into artifact theft, is unclear.
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Arts, Briefly: Architectural Records Saved at Last Minute
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Street Art Is Landing at New Addresses, in Galleries
Pop Pluralism is the skateboarding, graffiti-tagging, sometimes bratty and rebellious younger sibling of the art shown in most Chelsea galleries.
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Visuals: Histories of Maps and Other Visual Books
Visual books about maps, the design firm Unimark International and African and Central Asian ?war rugs.?
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Frank Williams, Architect of Towers in Manhattan, Dies at 73
Mr. Williams was the lead architect or collaborated with other prominent designers on 20 buildings in Manhattan.
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Arts | Long Island: Wood-Holland Recreates Mural at Planting Fields? Coe Hall
Polly Wood-Holland is recreating an early-20th-century mural at Coe Hall, a mansion at Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park.
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Art Review | New Jersey: Lalla Essaydi Revives the Exotic to Critique Exoticism
In the exhibition ?Lalla Essaydi: Les Femmes du Maroc,? the photographer plays with stereotypes by placing Moroccan women in scenes from Orientalist paintings.
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Art Review | 'Skin Fruit': A Mainstream Show at the Anti-Mainstream New Museum
The New Museum?s exhibition of artworks from the collection of Dakis Joannou, one of its trustees, did not sound like a good idea. Seeing it up close does not change that.
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Art Review | 'The Armory Show': At Piers 92 and 94, Nudes, a Pirate and Scrooge McDuck
There is not a lot of socio-politically provocative art to be found in the Armory Show. There are, however, many works in the bite-the-hand-that-feeds department.
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Exhibition Review | 'Charles Addams's New York': The New Yorker Cartoonist?s Skewed Views of Life, Revisited
Charles Addams, in his mischief, makes the illicit an enchanting, almost whimsical aspect of daily life.
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Art Review: Art Dealers Association Show at the Park Avenue Armory
At this year?s Art Show, the flashy statement pieces of 2009 have given way to the venerable blue-chip painting of Art Shows past.
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Art Review | Independent: A New Show by Elizabeth Dee and Darren Flook in Chelsea
You might have thought that New York had reached the saturation point in contemporary-art fairs, but no. A new one has just arrived.
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Inside Art: Yves Klein Works Attract Attention in Sales and Exhibitions
Yves Klein?s first solo museum show in the U.S. since a traveling exhibition in 1982 will open in May at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington.
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Antiques: Restoring F.D.R?s Harvard Dorm, and a Rare Jade Show
The nonprofit FDR Suite Foundation plans to restore a Harvard dorm as a minimuseum and guest quarters.
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Art by Milton Avery, Joe Bradley and Chris Martin
Reviews of exhibits of work by Milton Avery, Betty Parsons and others.
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