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Art Review: Ancient Art, Served on a Present-Day Platter
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s fine Latin American collection is back on view after three years’ absence, but it gets lost in the new nightclublike décor. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/arts/design/27muse.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/arts/design/27muse.html" border="0"/></a>

A Los Angeles Theater Is Renovated, Relieving Headache-Inducing Quirks
The Mark Taper Forum will reopen with a revival of John Guare’s “House of Blue Leaves” after a yearlong, $30 million renovation. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/theater/27taper.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/theater/27taper.html" border="0"/></a>

Riitta Immonen, a Founder of the Marimekko Textile Company, Dies at 90
Ms. Immonen was a designer of uniforms and ready to wear with a couture touch. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/arts/design/27immonen.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/arts/design/27immonen.html" border="0"/></a>

Where Tradition Has Ruled, a Home for Contemporary Art
The art that Anupam Poddar and his mother have collected will be exhibited in a new space in what will be, in effect, India’s first contemporary art museum. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/arts/design/26collect.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/arts/design/26collect.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review: Layers to Comment on Layers of Imagery
Artists male and female, young and old, famous and fledgling are all represented in the Met’s “Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium Since 1960.” <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/arts/design/26medi.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/arts/design/26medi.html" border="0"/></a>

An Architect Unshackled by Limits of the Real World
These are lonely times for Lebbeus Woods, the irreverent architect whose dark and moody renderings made him a cult figure among students and academics. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/arts/design/25wood.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/arts/design/25wood.html" border="0"/></a>

John Russell, Art Critic for The Times, Dies at 89
Mr. Russell contributed elegant, erudite art criticism for more than a half century to The Sunday Times of London and The New York Times. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/arts/25russell.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/arts/25russell.html" border="0"/></a>

Arts, Briefly: Hopper Site Endangered
A zoning decision in the town of Truro, Mass., could have an affect on a view once enjoyed by the painter Edward Hopper. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/arts/design/25arts2-HOPPERSITEEN_BRF.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/arts/design/25arts2-HOPPERSITEEN_BRF.html" border="0"/></a>

Art: Public Art, Eyesore to Eye Candy
Over the past 15 years public sculpture has become one of contemporary art’s more exciting areas of endeavor and certainly its most dramatically improved one. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/arts/design/24smit.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/arts/design/24smit.html" border="0"/></a>

To Remember Beijing, Indelibly
Slowly, tattooing is overcoming an ancient stigma in Beijing. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/sports/olympics/24tattoo.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/sports/olympics/24tattoo.html" border="0"/></a>

Ideas & Trends: Becoming the Big New Idea: First, Look the Part
The wind turbine excels aesthetically. Perhaps economically, too. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/weekinreview/24murphy.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/weekinreview/24murphy.html" border="0"/></a>

A Portrait by Leonardo? Scholars and Skeptics Differ
A 19th-century German School portrait that sold for $21,850 at a Christie’s auction in 1998 has now been attributed to Leonardo da Vinci by some experts. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/arts/design/23leon.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/arts/design/23leon.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review: Oh So Quiet
Two installations at Dia:Beacon quietly commemorate artists now gone whose names have a magic ring to contemporary ears. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/arts/design/22dia.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/arts/design/22dia.html" border="0"/></a>

Look Closely: What’s on the Table?
Once again we challenge you to find the works from which Librado Romero, a staff photographer for The New York Times, captured these hidden details, this week featuring tabletops. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/arts/design/22sear.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/arts/design/22sear.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review | ‘Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities’: Dusting Off a Museum’s Curio Cabinet
The Museum of Modern Art’s new permanent-collection exhibition aims to create new insights by organizing prints, sculptures, design objects and other works into inventive, thematic clusters. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/arts/design/22curi.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/arts/design/22curi.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review | 'Realisms': Now You Perceive It, Now You Think You Do
The second part of “The Cinema Effect” at the Hirshhorn Museum, an exhaustive survey of film and video art, showcases 19 artists who find fictions lurking behind every window, door and screen. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/arts/design/22cine.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/arts/design/22cine.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review: Modernist Optimism and Postmodernist Doubt
“Progress,” an intermittently thought-provoking show of works from 1926 to 2008 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, starts strongly but ends weakly. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/arts/design/22prog.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/arts/design/22prog.html" border="0"/></a>

Antiques: A British Men’s Club With a Taste for Classics
A quirky, fascinating show at the J. Paul Getty Museum examines the culture of connoisseurship in a men’s club in 18th-century London. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/arts/design/22anti.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/arts/design/22anti.html" border="0"/></a>

George Deem Dies at 75; Painted His Love: Art
Mr. Deem admired master painters so much that he spent his own career repainting their works, albeit with clever alterations. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/arts/design/22deem.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/arts/design/22deem.html" border="0"/></a>

Art in Review
Lisette Model at Zabriskie Gallery, “A Member of the Wedding” at Daniel Reich, Phoebe Washburn at Zach Feuer and others. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/arts/design/22gall.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/arts/design/22gall.html" border="0"/></a>

Museum and Gallery Listings
Selective listings from art critics of The New York Times. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/arts/design/22wart.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/arts/design/22wart.html" border="0"/></a>

Denver’s Unconventional Art, Ready for the Convention
Denver is hoping to declare its emerging artistic identity to the world next week when the gaze of the global news media and political power turns on the city. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/arts/design/21arti.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/arts/design/21arti.html" border="0"/></a>

In Beijing, No Making Heads or Tails of a New Building
A mysterious dragon-shaped building called the Pangu Plaza has Chinese newspapers abuzz with rumors about important guests residing within. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/sports/olympics/21apartment.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/sports/olympics/21apartment.html" border="0"/></a>

George Deem, 75, Artist Inspired by Master Painters, Is Dead
Mr. Deem admired master painters so much that he spent his own career repainting their works, albeit with clever alterations. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/arts/design/19deem.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/arts/design/19deem.html" border="0"/></a>

Fun on the Farm Down Home in Long Island City
This year, instead of the usual urban beach-themed décor, the courtyard at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center has been transformed into an urban farm. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/20/arts/design/20cour.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/20/arts/design/20cour.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review: Indian Modernism via an Eclectic and Elusive Artist
“Rhythms of India: The Art of Nandalal Bose (1882-1966)" delivers a significant piece of news: that modernism wasn’t a purely Western product sent out to a hungry and waiting world. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/20/arts/design/20bose.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/20/arts/design/20bose.html" border="0"/></a>

China Won’t Lend Artworks to Asia Society Exhibition
The Chinese Ministry of Culture had originally agreed to allow the society to borrow works for “Art and China’s Revolution,” promoted as among the first shows devoted to that era. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/20/arts/design/20soci.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/20/arts/design/20soci.html" border="0"/></a>

Movie Review | 'Richard Serra: Thinking on Your Feet': Watching as Richard Serra Thinks Big and Does Big
Operating at the intersection of art and industrial engineering, Richard Serra is an informative if unanimated guide through “Thinking on Your Feet.” <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/08/20/movies/20serr.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/08/20/movies/20serr.html" border="0"/></a>

Television Review: Giving Shelter: Students Scramble to Design and Construct a New Orleans House
The Sundance Channel’s six-part series “Architecture School” offers a window into the real-world pressures of becoming an architect and realizing a design. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/20/arts/television/20arch.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/20/arts/television/20arch.html" border="0"/></a>

Manny Farber, Iconoclastic Film Critic and Artist, Dies at 91
Mr. Farber was a painter whose spiky, impassioned film criticism waged war against sacred cows like Orson Welles. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/arts/design/19farber.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/arts/design/19farber.html" border="0"/></a>

Art Review: The Painter and the City: Parallel Tales of Growth
An exhibition in its final weeks at the Yale Center for British Art, “Joseph Wright of Derby in Liverpool,” is the first to focus on this period of the 18th-century painter’s career. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/arts/design/19wrig.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/arts/design/19wrig.html" border="0"/></a>

Inside Art
The Inside Art column will resume next month. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/08/arts/design/08bvoge.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/08/arts/design/08bvoge.html" border="0"/></a>

Architecture: Lost in the New Beijing: The Old Neighborhood
A construction boom tied to the Olympics is threatening two types of housing in China’s capital. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/arts/design/27ouro.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=3abb6e05d1d24a49b2767f46b1c7647a&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/arts/design/27ouro.html" border="0"/></a>