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Few MoMA Visitors Seem Upset by Abramovic Show
Visitors to the new Marina Abramovic retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, a survey of an often arduous strain of performance art, seem more intrigued than repulsed.
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?Event Horizon?: Antony Gormley?s Skyline Interlopers
Antony Gormley has perched 31 slightly different naked sculptures of himself on rooftops around New York.
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Exhibition Review | Hall of Human Origins: In the Smithsonian?s Newest Hall, a Big Family Tree
Long-term hominin evolution is the main concern of the impressive David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins, which opened this week at the Smithsonian?s National Museum of Natural History.
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New York Art Dealer Admits $120 Million Fraud
Lawrence B. Salander, a noted art dealer on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, admitted he had bilked clients like the tennis star John McEnroe.
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Art: For Asia Week, Gods, Saints and Flying Heroes
Anyone interested in Buddhist sacred art will want to sample some of these special, open-to-the-public exhibitions in Manhattan for Asia Week.
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Art Review | 'Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art': On the Road With Seekers at the Asia Society
The Asia Society is addressing peregrination and devotion directly in a deftly shaped exhibition called ?Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art.?
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Paired Artists, All Around Town
The Manhattan shows mentioned in the article.
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Art Review | Josef Albers and Ken Price: Josef Albers and Ken Price: Bauhaus Meets Venice Beach
?Josef Albers/Ken Price,? a thrilling exhibition at the Brooke Alexander Gallery in SoHo, can make you feel as if your eyes were attached to a bigger, more perceptive brain.
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Art in Review: Aipad Photography Show New York
Much of photography?s past is on display at the Association of International Photography Art Dealers Photography Show, with only a few hints of what might be to come.
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Art in Review: ?#class?
An exhibition organized by the artists Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida is keeping people talking about the role of socioeconomic class in the art world.
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Art in Review: ?The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb?s Book of Genesis?
R. Crumb?s graphic style may be irreverent, but in his attention to every detail of word and image he is as devout as any medieval manuscript illuminator.
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Art in Review: Robert Ryman: ?Large-Small, Thick-Thin, Light Reflecting, Light Absorbing?
Robert Ryman?s latest show feels wonderfully experimental, with paintings in various mediums and on all types of supports installed in a carefully designed environment.
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Art in Review: Sue Gurnee: ?The Fulgent Cadences?
When viewing this exhibition of paintings by Sue Gurnee, a professional healer who lives in North Carolina, you are instructed to ?let the image?s vibrations contact you.?
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Museums Special Section: The New Generation of Museum Curators
Far from the stereotype of fusty academics, curators in their 30s and 40s are bringing eclectic backgrounds and a fresh eye to Manhattan?s museums.
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Judith Rothschild Foundation Promotes Art and Its Trustee
A major beneficiary of the Judith Rothschild Foundation, besides the artists it promotes, has been its only trustee.
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Books of The Times: ?Backing Into Forward?: Jules Feiffer?s Ink-Stained Memoir
The cartoonist Jules Feiffer traces the roots of his subversive stance in this funny, revealing and often biting memoir.
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Museums Special Section: The Thrill of Science, Tamed by Agendas
Science museums experiment in their struggle to define themselves.
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Museums Special Section: Haiti?s Visionaries, Rising From the Rubble
Many of Haiti?s museums were damaged in the country?s earthquake, but an exhibition scheduled there for 2012 hopes to revive the fortunes of the country?s creators.
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Arts, Briefly: 20th Anniversary of a Boston Art Heist
The 1990 heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston ? in which paintings and drawings worth well more than $300 million were taken ? has long been exceptional.
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Museum Review: Where the Jewish Star Meets the Union Jack
The newly expanded Jewish Museum London offers testimony to a long history in which England and the Jews were locked in a complicated embrace.
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Architecture Review | Jean Nouvel: Luxury Tower at Corner of Grit and Glamour in Chelsea
Jean Nouvel?s new residential tower in Chelsea conjures a downtown New York we once loved and can now barely remember.
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Finding Gems at the Fine Art Fair in Maastricht
This year?s European Fine Art Fair has been notable for a few standout sales amid the absence of big-ticket items.
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Performance Art Gains Favor; Fights Ensue
With performance art now fashionable, there?s a search for revenue that angers some artists.
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Comics: The Upside-Down World of Gustave Verbeek - Complete Peanuts - Bloom County Library - Popeye - Plunder Island
New collections of classic comics, including ?Peanuts,? ?Bloom County? and ?Popeye.?
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Der Scutt, Modernist Architect, Dies at 75
Mr. Scutt was best known for whetting Donald Trump?s appetite for mirrored glass boxes, such as his design for Trump Tower.
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Charles Moore, Rights-Era Photographer, Dies at 79
Mr. Moore braved physical peril to capture searing images that many credit with helping to propel landmark civil rights legislation.
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Arts | Long Island: At Rogers Mansion, a Look at Influential Southampton Women
An exhibition rescues from obscurity stories of art, sewing, tribal leadership and women?s suffrage.
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A Work by Tino Sehgal at the Guggenheim Walked With You
In ?This Progress,? a work by Tino Sehgal, visitors were ushered up the spiral ramp by series of guides who asked them questions related to the idea of progress.
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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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