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2009.11.20: The New Museum For African Art Is Rising
2009.11.19: Catching Up: A News Collection
2009.11.18: What Is The Most Stolen Art Work? Try To Guess
2009.11.17: Prepare To Be Amused: A Sustained Look At Trompe-l'Oeil
2009.11.16: Monuments Men Foundation "Finds" A Monuments Woman
2009.11.15: Disney at The New Orleans Museum Of Art: Where Are The Curators?
2009.11.12: The Whitney Debuts Its Latest Acquisition: A New Website
2009.11.12: What Happened To The Education Campaign Pledge?
2009.11.11: Another Day, Another Art Prize, Another Museum
2009.11.10: New Museum Front: Two, Maybe Three, Steps Forward -- UPDATED
2009.11.09: Mother Nature, AKA Valerie Hegarty, Alters Jasper Francis Cropsey
2009.11.08: This Art Award, The Saatchi-Sunday Telegraph Prize, Breeds Art-Lovers
2009.11.07: NEA Chief Landesman Lands In Peoria -- And Avoids Controversy
2009.11.06: If You Live In Britain, Better Hide That Picasso
2009.11.05: And The Digital Composer-In-Residence Is...
2009.11.05: A Classical White House: What Happened Last Night
2009.11.04: Tonight At The White House: A Classical Concert
2009.11.04: Falling For The Fall for Dance Festival
2009.11.03: Who Are The Automatistes, And What Did They Paint?
2009.11.03: It's Not Perfect, But The News From Albright-Knox Gets Better
2009.11.02: Prizes Everywhere! Your Chance To Influence Classical Music
2009.11.01: Send This Art Prize Back To The Drawing Board
2009.10.31: Good Times For Ryan Trecartin
2009.10.30: How To Save The Books Business
2009.10.29: On Art Finds, And Having A Great Eye
2009.10.28: The White House Music Series -- Classical's Turn
2009.10.28: Add This To Your Art Itinerary in Munich: The Brandhorst Museum
2009.10.27: Chat Speaks: What Was Said During The Guggenheim Forum Discussion
2009.10.26: Cultural Diplomacy From Iran Means New Galleries
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2009.10.23: NEA Chief Gives A Speech And Raises A Few Questions
2009.10.22: "The Book" To Provide A New Voice In Book Reviews
2009.10.21: "American Stories" On The Web: Not Cutting-Edge, But So What?
2009.10.19: What Is Connoisseurship Nowadays? Ask Minneapolis Institute of Arts
2009.10.19: Guggenheim Forum: What's It All About?
2009.10.17: On Shark-Jumping And Shark-Dumping
2009.10.16: Baku Tries To Become Another Bilbao
2009.10.15: Who Rises To The Top At The Montclair Cezanne Exhibit?
2009.10.14: Contemporary Art Powers: Americans On The Annual Top 100 List
2009.10.14: Bondy's New Tosca: Don't Blame The Audience
2009.10.13: Denver Art Museum Gets New Director -- UPDATED
2009.10.13: Egon Schiele's Portrait of Wally Goes to Trial
2009.10.12: A Change In Culture: Why Mario Resca Could Be Good For Italy
2009.10.11: Jazz At The Movies: Is This Part Of A New All-Media Effort?
2009.10.10: Showdown At Fort Dodge: Another Deaccessioning Mess - UPDATED
2009.10.08: I Concur: Museums Need Rules For Single-Collector Shows
2009.10.07: On View In Milwaukee: What's The Matter With Andy?
2009.10.07: More New Old Masters, This Time from the Netherlands
2009.10.06: New Old Masters: Young British Artists -- No, Not Them -- Look Back
2009.10.05: Discovering Robert Bergman, An Art-World Cinderfella Story
2009.10.04: Heart Of The West: A Showcase For Artist-Cowgirls
2009.10.02: Museum Directors Take A Timely Stance Against Museum Tax
2009.10.02: Fanfare: Grand Rapids Symphony Joins In the ArtPrize Fun
2009.10.01: You Don't Have To Be A Poet To Love Poets House
2009.09.30: Anthony van Dyck: By The Numbers
2009.09.29: Albright-Knox Cuts Back Again: The Least of Evils?
2009.09.29: ArtPrize Gets Underway, With Some Spillover Already
2009.09.27: Obama Gives A Gift Of Art To Summiteers
2009.09.26: G-20 Summit Results: Carla Bruni Praises America's Talent
2009.09.25: The Fisher Collection: SF MOMA Does It Right -- UPDATED
2009.09.25: Art Detroit Now Gets A Second Go, Revised: Five Questions
2009.09.24: Milwaukee Museum Lights Up: In The Pink For Two Reasons
2009.09.23: "Bike Rides" At The Aldrich: On Track, Or Off?
2009.09.23: A New Theory About Pollock's Mural: He Hid His Signature
2009.09.22: Adding To Her Legend: O'Keeffe's "Steamy" Letters To Stieglitz
2009.09.21: Smithsonian Regents Approve Clough's Research Plan, Authorize Another Museum Expansion -- UPDATED
2009.09.20: Stars Are Born: Aboriginal "Icons," Part Two
2009.09.20: New At The Guggenheim: Styled for Kandinsky
2009.09.18: "The Price Of Being Damien Hirst" -- A Bit Rich, Is it?
2009.09.17: Art Magazines, 1950s Vs. Art Magazines, Today: Which Do You Prefer?
2009.09.17: More Answers to "Five Questions" About CultureLabel
2009.09.16: What's So Great About CultureLabel? Five Questions
2009.09.15: Dallas Performing Arts Center Goes Corporate: Let's Hear The Details
2009.09.15: Meet The New York Times's New Culture Editor
2009.09.14: Extra Credit For The Morgan Library
2009.09.14: Smithsonian Art Museums Under Clough: Suffering From Benign Neglect?
2009.09.12: Famous Collecting Family Hit By Warhol Theft
2009.09.11: Who's Made A Difference In New York's Cultural World?
2009.09.10: Hours, Closures, Cutbacks And Convenience
2009.09.09: It's A Bad News, Semi-Good News Moment For Arts Funding
2009.09.09: Saatchi Book Is A Q & A That Leaves Much Unanswered
2009.09.08: What We All Missed Over Labor Day: A Claim on A Vermeer
2009.09.08: "The Most Important Collectors You've Never Heard Of"
2009.09.06: Stars Are Born: Aborigines, Just Told to Paint, Turn Out "Icons Of The Desert"
2009.09.05: Vintage Russian Photos Now On The Web
2009.09.04: The Corporate Funding Drought Worsens
2009.09.03: Samurai Get The Asian Art Museum "Mired In Muck"
2009.09.02: Museums Gone Wild: What Message Are Some Sending?
2009.09.01: An Art Mystery: What Is The Printseller's Window Trying To Tell Us?
2009.08.31: Quick, Think: Who Would You Rank As The Greatest Photographers?
2009.08.30: This Music Is Your Music: New Smithsonian Podcasts
2009.08.28: Commander-In-Chief Moves to Ease Out Librarian-In-Chief
2009.08.27: Should the Cleveland Museum Be Allowed To Raid Its Acquisition Endowment?
2009.08.26: Exposed! In Delaware: Five Questions About Appropriation
2009.08.25: We Don't Need Curators Any More: We Have Banks
2009.08.24: NEH Largesse Goes to 184 Projects; Whistler and Dickinson Win
2009.08.23: Christie's Backs Away From Art As Financial Instrument
2009.08.17: A Millenary of Artists Compete for Artprize--UPDATED
2009.08.14: Peoria Makes Us Chuckle Again -- In A Good Way
2009.08.13: MoMA Tries Variable Pricing For Tim Burton Show
2009.08.13: A Brilliant No-Brainer Idea At U-Penn Focuses on Art (How Refreshing!)
2009.08.12: Are Museum Directors Paid Too Much? UPDATED
2009.08.11: Hidden Treasures From Kabul Is A Real Treasure
2009.08.10: Landesman's Big Risk: Cocky Remarks May Come Back to Haunt Him
2009.08.09: Does It Have to Be Experimental to Be Art?
2009.08.07: At Last: We Have Chairman At the NEA and NEH
2009.08.07: Left Behind: Insights The Cultural World Isn't Getting
2009.08.06: Good Or Bad? The Trend Toward Director-Based Exhibits
2009.08.05: Please Explain: More Crazy Numbers That Don't Help
2009.08.04: News Items From the White House, Florida, Chicago and the Senate
2009.08.03: Frank Gehry's Venezuelan Visit Sparks Rumor of A New Job
2009.08.02: Kokoschka at Neue Galerie -- Just So-So, But Go Anyway
2009.07.30: Buyouts Claim Milwaukee Arts Writers
2009.07.30: Statistics, Studies and the Arts: A Plea For More & Better
2009.07.29: Art Babble Keeps Babbling On -- With More Partners
2009.07.28: Brandeis Fallout: Sign Here If You Believe Great Universities Have Great Museums
2009.07.28: Maybe Sarkorzy Needs Art Lessons, Too
2009.07.27: The Jazz Century -- But In Pictures, Not Notes
2009.07.26: All That Jazz: Links Between the Sounds of Newport and Health
2009.07.24: Museums Can't Live Without Them -- A Tribute
2009.07.23: Museum Hours: Time For A Change
2009.07.22: Photography After Frank, The Book
2009.07.22: President Obama Waxes on Country Music At The White House
2009.07.21: Not To Be Missed...A News Collection
2009.07.20: London Dealers Start Master Paintings Week, And Already Renew
2009.07.20: The White House Goes Country! The Newest Music Event -- UPDATED
2009.07.19: Take A Trip to Italy, Or At Least to Williamstown, With Prendergast
2009.07.17: Jessica Lange Gets A Photography Show at the Eastman House -- Is This Celebrity Fever?
2009.07.16: Does the NEH Know that Philosophers Exist? They Don't Think So
2009.07.16: Having Triumphed in Philadelphia, Cezanne Moves to Montclair
2009.07.15: Venetians in Boston, A Model Show in Many Ways
2009.07.14: Salander Scandal Worsens: More Money Lost, New Charges
2009.07.14: North Adams and MASS MoCA: What's The Next Step?
2009.07.13: (Untitled) The Satire: It Targets Contemporary Art and Music
2009.07.12: Exploiting Raphael's La Velata: Portland Should Reconsider
2009.07.10: Here's One Smart 26-Year-Old. Why? He Likes Newspapers
2009.07.10: Whoa! A Letter Reveals The Need to Cultivate Congress
2009.07.09: Sisti Show: Perfect For Burchfield Penney's Regional Mission
2009.07.08: The New Burchfield Penney Is a Hit
2009.07.08: The Dove/O'Keeffe Story: A "Symmetry of Influence"
2009.07.06: Arts Liaison Kal Penn Starts Job At the White House
2009.07.06: Wright's Darwin Martin House Becomes A Must-See
2009.07.05: What's The Matter With Dresden? A Heritage Failure
2009.07.02: Celebrating the Fourth With Public Art: WaterFire
2009.07.02: Listen Up: The Contemporary Art Market Confidence Report Podcast
2009.07.01: Brooklyn's Lehman Addresses the Problem of Permanent Collections
2009.06.30: Sold: Embattled Financier Ezra Merkin Sells His Famed Rothkos
2009.06.30: Collector Fuhrman Extends Lifeline To Orphaned Artists
2009.06.30: National Archives Joins the YouTube Wave: Where Are Other Cultural Groups?
2009.06.28: Can Yinka Shonibare Draw Visitors to Brooklyn's Period Rooms?
2009.06.27: "Masterpiece" Column Is A Treasure
2009.06.26: Openness, Visitorship, and Caring at the Brooklyn Museum
2009.06.25: Museum Directors Meet And? "No Results."
2009.06.24: Getting Creative About Museum Memberships -- It's Time
2009.06.23: American Art's New Digs At the Nelson-Atkins: Five Questions
2009.06.22: Has the Art Market Bottomed Out? Some Omens From London
2009.06.22: There She Goes Again: Jazz-Lover Michelle Obama Tries to Spread its Gospel
2009.06.20: Seattle Artist Buster Simpson Wins Public Art Award
2009.06.19: What Are the "Enduring Questions" of Life?
2009.06.18: "Paint Made Flesh" Meets the Internet -- And Makes A Good Match
2009.06.17: Cost-cuts, The Guggenheim Museum and Its Exhibition Program
2009.06.16: Moscow, Cheryomushki Is The "People's Opera"
2009.06.16: The Word From Art Basel: "Surprisingly Strong Results"
2009.06.15: Take That, Brandeis! Dartmouth Gets $50 Million for a Visual Arts Center
2009.06.14: What Do You Really Know about Art? Phillips Art Expert Has Some Answers
2009.06.12: Five Questions about Kidspace at MASS MoCA
2009.06.11: Jerry's List: Women Artists, Owned By MoMA, Not On View
2009.06.11: Museum Directors Meet This Weekend: Here's What They Should Discuss
2009.06.10: Women Artists in Museums: Take a Clue from an NGA Show
2009.06.09: The Venice Biennale Vs. Art Basel
2009.06.08: On The Nature of Art and Human Attention
2009.06.07: One Peek at Nauman's Biennale Prizewinner
2009.06.05: Are Gardens Art? Many Are, Of Course
2009.06.04: Artsy Books for Summer Reading, Part Two
2009.06.04: Beyond Pat Conroy: Artsy Books to Read This Summer
2009.06.03: It Is Leach as National Endowment for the Humanities Chair
2009.06.03: Ara Pacis Incident: The Good News
2009.06.02: Caillebotte's A Draw in Brooklyn, But What About the Rest of the Museum?
2009.06.02: San Antonio's River Walk Grows, and the City Gets More Art
2009.06.01: Making Art Integral to Our Lives, Updated
2009.05.31: Making Art Central Through "Adventures in Modern Art"
2009.05.29: Who's Looking at Paintings? Not, Apparently, Even Art Students
2009.05.28: Stolen Egyptian Artifacts Recovered
2009.05.28: Richard Armstrong Reveals His Inner Cowboy, Especially on Deaccessioning
2009.05.27: Salander Rejoins the Gallery Game
2009.05.27: Whither Museums? More Answers to a Question That Shouldn't Be So Tough
2009.05.26: Duchamp's Chess Obsession: A Show, A Book, and More
2009.05.23: Soutine Returned: A Rare Deaccession for National Gallery
2009.05.22: The Obamas Choose Art for the White House
2009.05.22: A ho-hum week for American Art, with one exception
2009.05.21: Kiki Smith wins MacDowell Medal
2009.05.21: Celebrating Henry Hudson the Contemporary Way
2009.05.20: Learning to Write From Flaubert
2009.05.19: Michelle Obama Storms the NY Arts World
2009.05.19: Online Giving: The Met Shows How to Do It
2009.05.17: Putting Collectors Under the Microscope
2009.05.15: Michelle and the Met: Are the Arts Women's Work?
2009.05.15: Cezanne and Kelly: A surprise duo
2009.05.14: NEA chair down; NEH to go. It may be Jim Leach.
2009.05.13: MFA-Houston: What A Nice Gift You Have
2009.05.12: Every museum has a roof. Why so few galleries there?
2009.05.11: New works = new audiences? Not!
2009.05.09: The News Isn't Bad from the International Fine Art Fair
2009.05.08: The Humanities vs. Global Affairs: A Matter of Money
2009.05.07: Backstage at the Metropolitan Opera, It's Controlled Chaos
2009.05.06: The Scoop on Art + Auction Magazine
2009.05.05: Chicago Putdown: Masterful Quote from Contemporary Museum Director
2009.05.05: Does alcohol fuel creativity?
2009.05.04: David Zwirner Speaks Out on the Art Market
2009.05.04: Satchmo & The Joy of Art -- Now On View
2009.05.03: The Trouble With Spring Benefits
2009.05.01: Overheard At The Fair
2009.04.30: Karen Kilimnik Goes to the New Museum's Aid
2009.04.29: Will the New York Sun Rise Again?
2009.04.29: Future World: What Happens When Arts Coverage Is Left to Bloggers?
2009.04.27: Why Didn't Denver Take Design Show?
2009.04.27: Possible Solution For That Infamous YSL Sale of Chinese Artifacts?
2009.04.25: This New ArtPrize: Good for Artists, Good for the Public
2009.04.24: "Museums On Us" Survives B of A Woes
2009.04.24: Are you going to the fair? It's free...
2009.04.23: Beautiful Work from Jackson Poetry Prize Winner
2009.04.23: What does it take to win a Guggenheim Fellowship, Part 2
2009.04.22: NGA makes me want to be a kid again
2009.04.21: IMA's European Design Survey Sets the Pace
2009.04.21: Results Not Soft at SOFA
2009.04.20: The Saudis and American Art Appreciation
2009.04.20: A Gallery of Guggenheims
2009.04.18: More Deaccessioning Follies
2009.04.17: Typeface Aesthetics: "A font of ill will"
2009.04.17: A White House arts liaison, but where's the clout?
2009.04.16: Vote for Opera
2009.04.16: Bravo: the Smithsonian gets more visitor-friendly
2009.04.15: The Fine Art of Museum Pricing
2009.04.03: UNESCO's nifty, but unknown, cultural heritage program
2009.04.03: This foundation move could mean more stable arts funding
2009.04.02: From the George Eastman House: A New "Legacy"
2009.04.01: Sales at the Photography Show: Not Bad
2009.04.01: More Thoughts on the Annenberg Space for Photography
2009.04.01: LA Offers A New Photo Experience
2009.03.31: $1 Goes Far for Two Chicago Opera Companies
2009.03.30: The Unloved NEH? There's more there than many know
2009.03.30: The Fanjuls Win (a small) One
2009.03.29: Is Google being evil?
2009.03.27: How collector Aby Rosen can become a real hero
2009.03.27: The yin and yang of Chinese contemporary art
2009.03.26: Larry Salander arrested, indicted
2009.03.26: Obama, the arts, and appointments -- a snafu
2009.03.25: Homage to the Legendary Vogels
2009.03.24: Pushback on a Report that Would Hurt the Arts
2009.03.24: What the Art World Needs Now...
2009.03.23: Iran's New Year = good news for the arts
2009.03.22: Should foundations pick winners and losers in the arts?
2009.03.21: How to Save the News -- one idea
2009.03.20: What would Jerome Robbins think?
2009.03.19: What they said...for better and for worse
2009.03.19: Obama, the NEA, and cultural policy
2009.03.19: Opera World Collusion
2009.03.18: Who are the world's arts leaders of the future?
2009.03.17: Deaccessioning in Public
2009.03.16: Is this the 'arts czar'?
2009.03.16: Weathering Turbulent Times
2009.03.12: A Dudamel Dud
2009.03.11: Everyone's a Writer
2009.03.11: Life in the Art Market
2009.03.10: Sleepless Off-Broadway
2009.03.09: Raspberries, strawberries...
2009.03.09: Dudamel -- T-shirt star?
2009.03.08: Eye on Gagosian
2009.03.06: Laughing and crying - UPDATED
2009.03.04: LACMA's astonishing Mr. Govan
2009.03.04: Reaching for the Stars
2009.03.03: Worried about arts contributions?
2009.03.03: Why that YSL auction is good news
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