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Restoration puts the drama back in the Gross Clinic

By Peter Crimmins The restoration crew at the Philadelphia Art Museum likes to say that The Gross Clinic now looks like it did when it came off Thomas Eakins easel in 1875. Only partially true. The way it is presented in the Museum’s Perelman Building is nothing like the debut the painting had at the [...]

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Design & Architecture: Architectural Landmarks, with Legos!

 The National Building Museum is showing a selection of work by an unusual type of master builder.

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Freewaves: Video Between Their Toes

Freewaves turned 20 this year. The grassroots new media organization that began in 1989 with a gaping, loosely defined mission to show Los Angeles to itself celebrated its birthday on June 26 with Video on the Loose, a  one-night festival at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). In the wide-open plaza that links [...]

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Art & Crime: "Wally" Settlement Heaps New Criticism on Leopold Museum

 The revelation that the Vienna institution is funding the $19 million restitution by selling another Nazi-looted painting has drawn censure from Jewish groups.

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Museums: Palm Springs Art Museum Plans Desert Expansion

 The museum will lease a space in neighboring Palm Desert for one dollar a year.

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Postwar & Contemporary Art: "Tradition Transformed": A Conversation About Tibetan Contemporary Art

 ARTINFO spoke to Rubin Museum curator Rebecca Bloom about the first exhibition of recent art from the region to be staged in the U.S.

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Weekly Roundup

This Weekly Roundup features Kentridge’s Egyptian sketchbooks, Louise Bourgeois in The Surreal House, and Mike Kelley’s maiden voyage.

Scheduled to coincide with the monographic retrospective devoted to the artist at the Jeu de Paume, drawings by William Kentridge will be presented in the Salle d’Actualité of the Department of Graphic Arts, alongside a selection of Egyptian [...]

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Museum Ladin: 3rd Trienala Ladina: Mirrored Stories

Museum Ladin ?iastel de Tor
24 July – 31 October 2010

Conceived by the Museum “Ladin Ciastel de Tor”, the third edition of Trienala Ladina, entitled MIRRORED STORIES is an exhibition proposal orchestrated within the architectonics of six shells, resonating as distant yet familiar echoes with the individual artistic voices, spread between two almost identical exhibition interiors. Thus MIRRORED STORIES is a dual exhibition, a study in (impossible) symmetry, an attempt to outline a dichotomy of a singular narrative and a representation. Structured through a mirror-like surface borderline, this exhibition sets up a conversation, an exchange between subjectivities and too, it does challenges the singularity and integration of an artistic expression.

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Rivane Neuenschwander’s viewer interactive art at the New Museum

Go behind-the-scenes of the New Museum’s “Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other.”

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Daily Appendix: Robots Invade Milwaukee Museum, Roger Ebert Confuses His -isms, Et Al.

 Plus, David Ng points out that Ebert is wrong.

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