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At 94, She’s the Hot New Thing in Painting	Herrera, Carmen	12/20/2009 2:26 AM
After six decades of very private painting, Carmen Herrera is basking in the realization that her career is finally, undeniably, taking off.
A Legend as Muse: Patti Smith Fills Role	Rock Music	12/20/2009 4:24 PM
An all-out blitz for the “godmother of punk,” consisting of a prime-time broadcast of an award-winning documentary, concerts and an art exhibit, begins next week.
Times Are Tough? Bring on Vermeer and the Pianos	Art	12/18/2009 11:28 PM
With the economy in the sewer, our major museums were mainly in austerity mode, concentrating on small, collection-based exhibitions, a pattern likely to hold for years.
A Few Triumphs Pierce the Clouds of a Bleak Time	Architecture	12/18/2009 11:30 PM
The future may be bleak, but at least some architects can look back on the year with a sense of accomplishment.
Habitats: And for Compensation, the View	Alice Austen	12/18/2009 7:52 PM
Paul Moakley, a photographer and freelance photo editor, lives in a photography museum in Staten Island.
Art Review \| Connecticut: Beyond the Mobiles	Calder, Alexander	12/20/2009 12:26 AM
Alexander Calder’s extraordinary versatility as an artist is explored in an exhibition of his prints.
Design: Peter Miles Applies His Quirky, Simple Style to a Range of Platforms	Miles, Peter	12/20/2009 4:42 PM
The English graphic designer Peter Miles, now living in New York, has used his spare approach with clients ranging from German arts publishers to indie magazines.
Cutbacks in Plans but Not in Energy	Art	12/18/2009 11:29 PM
This was the year that the art world repeatedly checked its pulse to see if it was still alive. And guess what? It persisted, albeit in a slightly altered, chastened form.
A Class Reaches Out and Touches High-Tech Art	iPhone	12/20/2009 1:17 AM
Mike Nourse, a co-founder of the Chicago Art Department, has reconciled his love/hate relationship with iPhones by creating an art class around the phone.
Bookshelf \| Photo Collections: The City in Pictures, and in Lists	Photography	12/20/2009 12:08 AM
“New York Sleeps” and “Only in New York: Photographs From Look Magazine” are worth considering as holiday gifts for lovers of the city.
Peter Forakis, a Sculptor of Geometric Forms, Dies at 82	Art	12/20/2009 1:58 AM
Mr. Forakis was a sculptor of geometric forms and a founder of Park Place, a dynamic New York artists’ cooperative gallery of the 1960s.
Art Review \| Long Island: Blurring Boundaries, in Words and Swirls	Art	12/20/2009 12:28 AM
At a new show at the Alpan Gallery, artists make drawings of many variations out of everything from decipherable words to expressive calligraphic forms.
Casino Chief Said to Own Rembrandt	Art	12/19/2009 12:43 AM
The mysterious telephone bidder who paid $33.2 million for a Rembrandt portrait was buying the painting on behalf of the casino owner.
James Rossant, Architect and Planner, Dies at 81	Rossant, James	12/19/2009 12:27 AM
The architect helped design the planned city of Reston, Va.
Art Review \| '5,000 Years of Japanese Art': Cleaning Out Closets, Reuniting Old Friends	Art	12/17/2009 11:53 PM
The Metropolitan Museum’s survey of exceptional Japanese art includes items that have been in and out of storage since the collection’s arrival in town nearly 35 years ago.
Art Review \| James Tissot: Jesus, Illustrated: Tissot’s New Testament	Tissot, James	12/18/2009 12:06 AM
The Brooklyn Museum’s exhibition of 124 paintings from James Tissot’s series,“The Life of Christ,” is surprisingly intriguing and moving.
Art Review \| Bruce Nauman: Listen: Can You Hear the Space?	Art	12/18/2009 12:01 AM
At 68, Bruce Nauman continues to redefine art, as seen at his show of videos, sculptures, installations and sound pieces at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Art Review \| John Singer Sargent: Before His Famous Portraits, Sargent Looked to the Sea	Art	12/18/2009 12:16 AM
Seascapes, some romantic and some methodical, from Sargent’s formative period and beyond at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington.
Peter Forakis, Geometric Sculptor, Is Dead at 82	Art	12/17/2009 12:48 AM
Mr. Forakis was a sculptor who helped found Park Place, a prominent New York artists’ cooperative gallery of the 1960s.
Architecture: In Washington, a Different Kind of Bubble	Architecture	12/15/2009 2:52 PM
Richard Koshalek, the newly appointed director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, plans to erect a 145-foot-tall inflatable meeting hall on the National Mall.
Art Review \| Gabriel Orozco: Slicing a Car, Fusing Bicycles and Turning Ideas Into Art	Art	12/13/2009 11:17 PM
Gabriel Orozco’s retrospective is a taut, attractive, but oddly conventional looking survey.
Arts, Briefly: Losses at the Smithsonian Institution	Smithsonian Institution	12/13/2009 11:38 PM
The Smithsonian Institution has lost $12.3 million in property and can’t find it.
Art: A Whale of a Return to MoMA	Art	12/12/2009 9:00 AM
After 20 years, a Mexican artist is making his move from the corners to the big space.
Design: London Portrays Past and Future of Digital Art	Art	12/14/2009 5:34 AM
As more of the images we encounter every day go digital, two exhibits can help us understand how this area of design has developed and is likely to evolve.
The Pop Art Era	Art	12/11/2009 3:25 PM
James Rosenquist writes about growing up to be a painter, while other authors dissect the Warhol phenomenon afresh.

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