1. 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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2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. Museum and Gallery Listings
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9. 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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10. 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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11. Alexander McQueen's Final Collection Unveiled
This week a group of fashion editors gathered in a Parisian salon to view the pieces that designer Alexander McQueen was working on before he committed suicide. Robin Givhan, the fashion writer for The Washington Post , was on hand for the Paris Preview, and talks about the collection.
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12. McGill grad wins architecture prize
Elizabeth Paden, a recent graduate from McGill University in Montreal, has won the Canada Council for the Arts Prix de Rome in Architecture for Emerging Practitioners prize.
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13. Oceans of talent
The Louis Vuitton Trophy isn't all about sailors battling it out on the water. We meet three women connected in other ways The artist Life is a journey. We are all on our individual roads. Where they lead is, of course,...
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14. 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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15. 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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16. 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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17. Rare Canadian flag on auction block
A rare, 1868 Canadian Red Ensign flag will hit the auction block this summer.
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18. U.S. Returns Sarcophagus To Egypt
After a secret trip around the globe, a 3,000-year-old stolen sarcophagus is returning home to Egypt. On Wednesday, U.S. authorities sent the sarcophagus to Egypt. It was confiscated by customs officials at the Miami Airport in 2008. Zahi Hawass, secretary-general of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, offers his insight.
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19. Raids nab seven over cartoonist death plot
Seven people were arrested in the Republic of Ireland yesterday as part of an international investigation into a conspiracy to murder a Swedish cartoonist whose work has led to death threats from Muslim extremists.Four men and...
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20. 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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