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Art: How to Think Like a Surreal Cartoonist
In her two-day writer?s workshop, Lynda Barry sings, tells jokes, acts out characters and even dances a creditably sensual hula.
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Exhibition Review: Mystics and Militants: A Look at the Rastafari Kingdom
?Discovering Rastafari!? at the Smithsonian?s Natural History museum reveals far more about Rastafarian culture than familiar symbols and the show?s modest size might suggest.
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Arts, Briefly: Design Change Sought for King Memorial
The United States Commission of Fine Arts has asked the creators of a sculpture of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for the Washington Mall to change it.
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Art Review | 'Superheroes': Power Dressing
The Metropolitan Museum offers a playful look at comic book costumes and their influence on radical haute couture.
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Art Review | 'Life on Mars': An Alien Sighting on Planet Pittsburgh
Lately, it seems, biennial exhibitions don?t do much except sit there, looking good and offending no one. The 55th Carnegie International is no exception.
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Art Review | The International Fine Art Fair: Contemporary May be Hot, but Here the Focus Is on Comfort
The International Fine Art Fair at the Park Avenue Armory, now in its 15th year, is a good place to find highly decorative examples of familiar styles.
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Art Review | 'Double Album': Two Boys Past Adolescence Still Just Being Boys
The New Museum?s intermittently interesting but ultimately disappointing exhibit features two artists in their 40s who share a fascination with male adolescence.
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Inside Art: Met?s Nautical Mural Has a Return Voyage
A grand Art Deco mural is made whole for the first time since the Normandie sank.
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Art in Review
Anton Kannemeyer at Jack Shainman, Cornelius Quabeck at Friedrich Petzel Gallery, Amy Bessone at Salon 94 and more.
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Antiques: Rococo Eye-Openers at Two Auction Houses
This month both Christie?s and Sotheby?s are showing a few spectacular Rococo antiques that are not to be missed.
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Museum and Gallery Listings
Selective listings from art critics of The New York Times.
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Victor Christ-Janer, Modernist Architect, Dies at 92
Mr. Christ-Janer was a member of a group of influential architects who built Modernist homes and offices in New Canaan, Conn.
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Art Review | Fausto Melotti: Italian Sculptor Attuned to the Harmonic Occupation of Space
Fausto Melotti?s work defies convention and unites disparate strains of 20th-century Italian art.
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Serra?s Monumental Vision, Vertical Edition
France is making a fuss this week over Richard Serra, the 68-year-old American bantamweight who fashions elegant, gargantuan art out of steel.
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An Auction of New Chinese Art Leaves Disjointed Noses in Its Wake
The sale of some 200 works by some of China?s hottest names has stirred indignation among many of the artists and their dealers and some curators.
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Abroad: Simmering Anti-Semitism Mars a Vibrant Hungary
A more conspicuous Jewish culture meets open hatred in Budapest.
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Record Price for Monet at Auction
An 1873 canvas by Monet of a riverbank landscape with two trains atop a railway bridge sold for $41.4 million at Christie?s. It was a record price for the artist.
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Arts, Briefly: Jane Jacobs Honorees Are Chosen
Jane Jacobs Medals and $100,000 each will be awarded to Peggy Shepard and Alexie Torres-Fleming.
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Ted Key, 95, Creator of ?Hazel? Cartoon, Is Dead
Mr. Key?s cartoon creation was an independent-minded, impertinent maid who came to be known as Hazel, a name that became synonymous with live-in housekeepers.
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Art: For Sale: Art and Optimism
Despite increasing anxiety over the economy, sales estimates at the auction houses are more robust than ever.
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Art: This Is His Life: A Blue Whale and Hello Kitty
Boyish wizardry ? rather than the acts of rebellion for which he is best known ? is what now most interests the artist Tom Sachs.
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Domains | Andrew Stanton: An Animated Life
Andrew Stanton, the Oscar-winning director and writer of ?Finding Nemo,? ?A Bug?s Life? and the coming ?Wall-E,? lives outside San Francisco in a 3,500-square-foot ?neobungalow? style house.
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Art Review | 'Action/Abstraction': Rivalry Played Out on Canvas and Page
This exceedingly handsome show features works by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Barnett Newman.
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Art Review | Philip Guston: Primal Instincts Hooked to an Art Against Artifice
The Morgan Library & Museum offers a spellbinding survey of Philip Guston?s drawings.
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Art in Review
Mary Cassatt at Adelson Galleries, Gary Panter at Clementine, Mel Bochner at Peter Freeman Inc. and more.
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Inside Art: Sampling a Lifetime of Eclectic Collecting
A sampling of an eccentric collector?s collection will be auctioned on July 9 at Sotheby?s in London.
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Antiques: An Architect?s Eye Reflected in Silver
A show of metalworks at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, covers work by 37 architects.
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Museum and Gallery Listings
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Architecture: Whitney?s Downtown Sanctuary
Optimism is in the air again at the Whitney Museum of American Art, which has just released a preliminary design by the Italian architect Renzo Piano for its proposed satellite museum downtown.
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Design Notebook: In Inner Mongolia, Pushing Architecture?s Outer Limits
Architecture firms from 27 countries were recently commissioned to design luxury homes in the Chinese desert region of Inner Mongolia.
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