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When Is a Reward Not a Reward?

Also recovered, Turner’s Light and Color. Both works were on loan to the Schirn Kunsthalle.

Experts disagree over whether paying for information leading to the recovery of stolen art might actually encourage more thefts Read More

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Stalled at the Gate

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Mark Wallinger’s glorious history of unrealized public-art projects Read More

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Sailing with the Kabakovs

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The artist duo has launched a project, for and by schoolchildren, to promote tolerance and diversity Read More

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The Persistence of Memories

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Pioneering programs at MoMA and other museums show that engagement with modern art can improve quality of life for Alzheimer’s patients and their caregivers Read More

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L.A. Stories

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Shining light on uncatalogued archives, misplaced works, and undocumented careers, more than 60 venues in Southern California present shows on the art of postwar Los Angeles Read More

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Designing Mind

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Bill Moggridge wants to bring design out of the Cooper-Hewitt and into the public conversation Read More

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Hidden No More

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The Polish contemporary-art scene looks to shake off its past Read More

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Puff Piece

Xu Bing printing on whole tobacco leaves.  Credit: COURTESY DUKE UNIVERSITY, DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA

“The ‘Tobacco Project’ began with an interest in the aroma of tobacco,” Chinese artist Xu Bing says over a dim-sum breakfast in New York. Likening it to something between sociology and art, he is referring to the third iteration of … Read More

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A Terrible Beauty?

Sarah Charlesworth's Unidentified Woman, Hotel Corona de Aragon, Madrid, 1980, from the series "Stills," is in the show "September 11" at MoMA PS1.  COURTESY THE ARTIST AND SUSAN INGLETT GALLERY, NEW YORK

New York’s museums grapple with 9/11. Read More

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It’s Not Just a Museum, It’s a Think Tank

Performers wearing costumes crocheted by the artist Olek wordlessly interact with crowds at a mini "Bushwick Art Park" installed on the Bowery as part of the New Museum's Festival of Ideas.  MAGGIE LEE

Art museums are recruiting experts from outside the art world to address problems in the real world. Read More