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Taiwan Performing Arts Center, aka National CKS Cultural Center, will open Taiwan International Festival (TIF) from 19th February to 28th March, 2010 featuring the best figures and groups from abroad and Taiwan such as Robert WILSON, TAN Dun, Thomas OSTERMEIER, George FENTON, LÜ Shao-Chia and LIN Hwai-Min, etc. Six of the programs will be world premiere while another six will be Asian premiere. You will be amazed by the diversified cultures in Taiwan and countries around the world. Among others, tickets for the flagship production, 1433-The Grand Voyage, are sold amazingly fast. Please browse http://tif.ntch.edu.tw for more information.

 

Jobs
Shen Wei Dance Arts, a modern dance company based in New York City, seeks a full-time Executive Director to begin in mid-November, 2009. The successful candidate will report to the Board of Directors and supervise all activity in new business development; fundraising strategy; Board and donor cultivation; outreach and education; press and marketing; development; touring; production; information technology; and human resources. Interested candidates should email a current CV, a very brief letter of interest, and up to two writing samples to Search@ShenWeiDanceArts.org
 
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Young Audiences, Inc. (YAI) seeks EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR to establish YA as a leading advocate for arts in education, to lead fund-raising, oversee program r&d, develop strategic partnerships, build brand. Respected candidate from arts, education, youth dev. or corp. leader w/ exp. in business development. Must be exceptional communicator w/ ability to build new & existing relationships w/ affiliates & key leaders, strengthen affiliates & grow organization. Travel required. Competitive comp/benefits. Starts summer, 2010. For more information go here.
 
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Arts Every Day, a growing, dynamic non-profit, whose mission is to strengthen learning for Baltimore public school students by making arts education and cultural experiences an integral part of the school day, is seeking an outstanding individual with a genuine passion for both arts and education to serve as Executive Director. Candidates must have a minimum of five years management experience, preferably, a Masters degree. Ideal candidate will be self-motivated, an energetic consensus builder, strategic thinker, articulate communicator and technologically proficient. Go here for more details.
 
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DIRECTOR, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MUSEUM OF ART The University of Michigan invites nominations and applications for the position of Director of the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) in Ann Arbor. Reporting to the Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, the Director will provide leadership and management for the Museum. Nominations and/or applications, accompanied by a letter of interest, current curriculum vitae, and names and contact information of three references, should be submitted to:Judith A. Auerbach and Kit J. Nichols email ana@auerbach-assc.com
 
Education
Master of Arts in Arts Administration - Goucher College Keep your job and earn your master's degree. Spend two weeks in August on the Goucher campus and complete the rest of your work wherever you may be - at home, the office, backstage, on the road. Participate in an interactive learning environment. You'll develop a strong network of like-minded peers and mentors while learning from a dynamic faculty of national arts leaders who don't just teach arts administration - they run thriving arts organizations. Check out our website www.goucher.edu/maaa
 

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Ideas

How People Get Addicted To Virtual Reality Games - New Scientist 11/06/09
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When God Was Dead: A Look Back - Obit Mag 11/05/09
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The Brainwave Sofa (We're Not Kidding) - Wired 11/04/09
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Office Gossip Is Being Studied By Ethnographers - New York Times 11/03/09
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Think You're So Smart Because You Have A High IQ? - New Scientist 11/02/09
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Curiosity, The Antidote To (And Flip Side Of) Anxiety - Miller-McCune 10/30/09
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Yet Another Contagious Condition: Blaming Other People - Miller-McCune 11/02/09
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Our Common Offense: Living While Distracted - The New Yorker 11/09/09
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Dance

Rambert Dance Company's Scientific Advisor (Yes) Speaks - New Scientist 11/05/09
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Merce's Work, Without Merce - New York Times Magazine 11/08/09
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The Red Shoes Restored, With Shoes Redder Than Ever - New York Times 11/06/09
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Bangarra Dance Theatre At 20 - The Age (Melbourne) 10/30/09
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A Cunningham Counterpart To Wiseman's Paris Opera Ballet Doc - New York Times 11/05/09
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'One Of The Finest Dance Films Ever Made": Wiseman's La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet - New York Times 11/04/09
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Old Ballet Florida HQ Sold To College Drama Dept. - Palm Beach Post (Fla.) 11/03/09
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Isadora Duncan Awards Nominees, Honorees Announced - San Francisco Chronicle 11/03/09
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Issues

Britain Wonders If Its Comedians Have Gone Beyond The Pale - The Independent 11/07/09
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Breaking How Many Barriers? Female Scribe Copies Torah Scroll In Public - New York Times 11/08/09
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Nine Ways Of Looking At The Fall Of The Wall - New York Times 11/08/09
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The Future Of College - InsideHigherEd 11/05/09
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Who "Advises" The President On The Arts - Politico 11/06/09
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Durham, NC, PAC $1M In Black, Gives $400K To City - The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC) 11/05/09
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Foundation Giving To Fall More Than 10%, Farther In 2010 - Crain's New York Business 11/04/09
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The Dreaded Early Morning Lecture Class, Now On Commuter Trains - Agence France-Presse 11/04/09
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'From Sanctuary To Snake Pit': A Photographic History Of The Insane Asylum - New Scientist 10/30/09 (slide show)
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UK Culture Secretary Warns Of Tory Threat To The Arts - The Guardian (UK) 11/03/09
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Seattle's Giant Magnet Lets Longtime Director Go - Seattle Times 11/02/09
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Deforestation Caused Demise Of Ancient Peruvian Culture - Los Angeles Times 11/02/09
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Rocco Landesman's Offensive Play - Wall Street Journal 11/03/09
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Boldface Names Join Obama's Arts Advisory Panel - Washington Post 11/02/09
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The Trouble With Boards - Huffington Post 11/02/09
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Las Vegas Dreams Crash - Der Spiegel 10/30/09
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Media

Why The New Children's Films Are Unsettling Some Adults - New York Times 11/08/09
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Appalling, Addictive, And/Or Academic Touchstone: Fight Club, Ten Years On - New York Times 11/08/09
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EU To Give Teeniest Tiniest Protection To Those Accused Of Illegally Downloading Media - BBC 11/05/09
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Disney Moves To Give Mickey Mouse A Little 'Tude - New York Times 11/05/09
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First-Run Films In Your Living Room? Hollywood Says Yes. - Variety 11/04/09
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The Berkeley-fication Of Sesame Street - New York Times 11/08/09
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Station 100 Miles South May Fill St. Louis' Classical Void - fox4kc.com (Kansas City, Mo.) (AP) 11/04/09
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Matrix Producer Plans Biopic Of Prophet Muhammad - The Guardian (UK) 11/02/09
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Late-Night TV's Not Just For White Guys Anymore - The Wrap 11/02/09
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French Cinemas To Close In Protest Of Release Schedule - Variety 11/03/09
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Who's On First? Um, This Is It, Isn't It? - The New Yorker 10/29/09
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Disney Returns To Hand-Drawn Animation - Wall Street Journal 11/02/09
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Why DVRs Have Helped, Not Harmed, TV Revenues - The New York Times 11/02/09
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Arab Films Find New Audiences But Not Funding - Yahoo! (Reuters) 11/02/09
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US TV Ratings Stabilize After Years Of Decline - The Star Tribune (Mpls) 10/31/09
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Comcast Close To Buying NBC - The New York Times 11/01/09
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Music

Out Of Cash, Honolulu Symphony Cancels All 2009 Concerts - Honolulu Advertiser 11/07/09
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Time To Close The Rock Hall Of Fame? - Los Angeles Times 11/06/09
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Pianists As Super Heroes (Okay, Virtuosos, Then) - The Times (UK) 11/05/09
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Honolulu Symphony Fails To Make Payroll - KITV (Honolulu) 11/04/09
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Rolando Villazón Says His Voice Is Back - Los Angeles Times 11/05/09 (includes video)
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Vancouver Opera Celebrates Its Golden Anniversary - Vancouver Sun 11/04/09
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Real-Life Dead-Baby Mystery Becomes Serialized Radio Opera - The Globe and Mail (Canada) 11/05/09
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White House Kids' Event Signals Shift For Classical Music - Washington Post 11/05/09
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Salmonella Silences I Musici Di Montréal - The Gazette (Montreal) 11/04/09
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Tommasini Gets His Wish: NY City Opera's 'Sound-Enhancement' System Is No More - New York Times 11/05/09
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The Complete Beatles, On A Flash Drive - New York Times 11/04/09
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LA Radio Passes On NEA Opera Honors - Los Angeles Times 11/04/09
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Honolulu Symphony Faces Bankruptcy (Again) - Honolulu Advertiser 11/03/09
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What David Robertson Loves About The St. Louis Symphony - Wall Street Journal 11/04/09
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Manager Of Queen's Composer Jailed For Defrauding Him - The Times (UK) 11/03/09
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Juilliard Archive Adds Beethoven, Mendelssohn MSS - The New York Times 11/03/09
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Children's Top 10 Classical Favorites - The Guardian (UK) 11/03/09
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Looking For A Virtual Composer-In-Residence - The Telegraph (UK) 11/02/09
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People

When Akram Khan Kept Quiet - The Independent (UK) 11/06/09
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Francisco Ayala, Spain's Literary Lion, Dead At 103 - New York Times 11/05/09
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George Zoritch, 92, Ballet Russe Leading Man - New York Times 11/06/09
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Susan Graham In Bed With Renée Fleming (With Her Ex-Boyfriend Watching) - San Francisco Chronicle 11/04/09
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'Ayn Rand Is One Of America's Great Mysteries' - Slate 11/02/09
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Woody's Account Of His Dinner With Ingmar - New York Times 11/04/09
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Claude Lévi-Strauss, 100, 'The Father Of Modern Anthropology' - Los Angeles Times 11/04/09
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Van Gogh's Correspondence Now Available Online In English - Los Angeles Times 11/03/09
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Impresario John Kenley, Who Brought Big Stars To Little Cities, Dies At 103 - New York Times 10/31/09
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Richard Burton's 'Economy Of Motion' - New York Times 10/30/09
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Leonard Slatkin Suffers Heart Attack After Performance - Detroit Free Press 11/03/09
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Stieg Larsson's Partner, Family Battle Over His Estate - The Guardian (UK) 11/02/09
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Tony Kushner At The Top - Chicago Tribune 11/01/09
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Publishing

Philip Gourevitch To Leave Paris Review - Los Angeles Times 11/06/09

Why Newspapers Need Editors, Demonstrated In Red Ink - Torontoist 11/06/09

The Bookless Libraries? - InsideHigherEd 11/06/09

Glenn Beck, Art Critic Manqué, Is Driving Fiction Sales - The New York Times 11/05/09

Publishers Weekly's All-Male Top 10 Provokes Female Fury - The Guardian (UK) 11/05/09

Going To The Library, Toronto-Style - Toronto Star 11/05/09

And What If People Don't Give E-Readers For The Holidays? - Washington Post 11/05/09

The Secret Behind The Onion's Headlines - New York Times 11/03/09

The Nine Best Novels (And One Play) Of Sexual Jealousy - The Guardian (UK) 11/04/09

Wildly Popular iPhone Book Apps Pose Threat To Kindle - PC World 11/02/09

NYPL Gets Papers Of Annie Proulx And Eloise Illustrator - Bloomberg 11/03/09

Physical Books Are Deeply Rooted In Our Emotional Selves - Boston Globe 11/02/09

Marie NDiaye Wins France's Top Literary Prize - CBC 11/02/09

New Lit Phenom: The Well-Rounded Heroine - The Observer (UK) 11/01/09

The Logic Of The Amazon/Wal-Mart Book Wars - The New Yorker 11/09/09

Russian Literature Rises Again - Financial Times 10/31/09

Cleveland's Writers' Colony Takes Off - The Plain Dealer (Cleveland) 11/01/09

Theatre

Why The Julie Taymor Spider-Man Is So Difficult And Expensive - Los Angeles Times 11/06/09
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Julie Taymor's Spider-Man Hangs In The Balance - New York Times 11/05/09
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Cirque Du Soleil Creating Elvis Presley Tribute - Los Angeles Times 11/05/09 (includes video preview)
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The Welsh Love Theatre -- Just Not The Professional Kind - The Guardian (UK) 11/05/09
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Did A New York Times Ad Deal Doom Neil Simon Plays? - New York Post 11/04/09
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West End Adaptation Of Shawshank Redemption To Close Three Months Early - The Stage (UK) 11/04/09
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Why Its New Theatrical Behemoth Is A Boon For Britain - The Times (UK) 11/04/09
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Northern Calif.'s Willows Theatre Company To Shutter - Contra Costa Times (Calif.) 11/03/09
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Transsexual Jesus Play Draws 300 Protesters In Glasgow - BBC 11/04/09
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With £90M Acquisition, UK Theatre Has A New Titan - The Times (UK) 11/04/09
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Oregon Shakespeare Festival Survives Budget Crisis, Sets Box Office Records - The Oregonian (Portland) 11/02/09
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British Equity Loses Bid For Pay Hike - The Stage (UK) 11/03/09
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Classical Theatre of Harlem Founders Are Stepping Down - Playbill 11/02/09
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Pocono Playhouse Owner Boosted Insurance Before Fire - Pocono Record (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 11/03/09
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Puppeteer Ronnie Burkett Wins $75K Siminovitch Prize - The Globe and Mail (Canada) 11/02/09
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In Defense Of The Prompter -- And The Prompted - Boston Globe 11/02/09
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Broadway Healthy Despite High-Profile Flop - Yahoo! (AP) 11/02/09
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Why Neil Simon's Hit Play Flopped On Broadway - The New York Times 11/01/09
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The Impressario Gene - St. Paul Pioneer-Press 10/30/09
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Visual

Revisiting The Bauhaus - New York Times 11/06/09
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Sotheby's Hemorrhages Money In Third Quarter 2009 - Bloomberg 11/05/09
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For The New Barnes, A New Chief Curator - Philadelphia Inquirer 11/06/09
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Why Not? Art Under The Big Top - Gogle (AP) 11/05/09
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Dia Art Foundation To Return To Manhattan - Time 11/05/09
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Why Are Autumn Leaves More Boring In Europe? - EARTH Magazine 11/03/09
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Why Scots Are In The Vanguard Of 3-D Modeling - The New York Times 11/05/09
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Art School Struggles To Balance Free Classes, Resources - Philadelphia Inquirer 11/05/09
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In An Exhibition, Proof Of The Rose Museum's Importance - Boston Globe 11/05/09
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The Quietest Of Pritzker Prize Winners - The New Republic 11/04/09
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The Very Model Of A Monumental Sculptor - Slate 11/04/09 (slide show)
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Is Guggenheim Bilbao Getting A New Sibling? - The Art Newspaper 11/03/09
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Leonardo's Fattest Codex Meets The Public - Wall Street Journal 11/04/09
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Estate Fight Pits Heirs Vs. Museum Of Fine Arts, Houston - Bloomberg 11/03/09
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Where Are The Big Bonuses For Goldman Sachs's Architects? - Bloomberg 11/03/09
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Trouble In London: An Overstock Of Artist Celebrities - The Guardian (UK) 11/03/09
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Defacing Banksy Mural, Vandals Trump Voters - BBC 11/02/09
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Ukrainian Billionaire Pinchuk To Build Kiev Art Center - Bloomberg 11/03/09
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Lehman Art Rakes In Bucks At Auction (No, It Won't Help) - Bloomberg 11/02/09
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Building By Building, Good Public Design Invades NYC - New York Magazine 11/01/09
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A Rare Look At Cuban Contemporary Art - Adobe Airstream 10/28/09
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Great Art At Rock Bottom Prices? - The New York Times 11/01/09
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