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11th Havana Biennial Attracts AmericansHavana Biennial5/18/2012 11:24 PM
With fewer travel restrictions to Cuba, more than 1,300 Americans — collectors, curators, dealers and others — have registered to attend this year’s Havana Biennial, close to the high reached in 2000.

Maryhill Museum of Art, With Revenue From the WindMaryhill Museum of Art5/18/2012 11:27 PM
Financed partly by income from wind turbines, an addition is helping the rural Maryhill Museum of Art in Washington State attract new visitors — and survive.

Barbara D’Arcy White, Interior Design Guru, Dies at 84White, Barbara D'Arcy5/18/2012 10:07 PM
Ms. D’Arcy was an interior decorator whose eclectic sense of style helped change Americans’ taste in home furnishings in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s, when she worked at Bloomingdale’s.

ArtsBeat: Gehry Changes Design for Eisenhower MemorialEisenhower, Dwight David5/17/2012 8:18 AM
The changes came in response to concerns that a youthful statue failed to represent the former president’s significant achievements.

ArtsBeat: Knoedler Seeks to Have Lawsuit Over Disputed Painting DismissedArt5/15/2012 2:05 PM
A collector says he was sold a fake Jackson Pollock painting.

ArtsBeat: Painting Made With Blood of Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty Is SoldAmy Winehouse5/14/2012 10:07 AM
"Ladylike," a painting for which Amy Winehouse contributed a minimalist self-portrait and which uses an artistic technique Pete Doherty calls "arterial splatter," yielded only about half the price it was expected to draw at an auction in London.

Art Review: ‘Domenico Gnoli: Paintings 1964-1969,’ at Luxembourg & DayanArt5/18/2012 1:07 PM
Domenico Gnoli’s paintings on view at Luxembourg & Dayan are humorous in an oddly solemn way, though they do not parody styles of contemporary advertising or product design.

Art Review: ‘Monet’s Garden’ at the New York Botanical GardenArt5/19/2012 9:02 AM
The main attraction in “Monet’s Garden,” at the New York Botanical Garden, is a living abbreviated approximation of the two major gardens that Monet created.

Exhibition Review: ‘Spy: Secret World of Espionage’ at Discovery Times SquareEspionage and Intelligence Services5/18/2012 1:07 PM
Visiting “Spy: The Secret World of Espionage,” a new show at Discovery Times Square, is a little like being privy to backstage preparations for a magic show.

Art Review: The Barnes Foundation, From Suburb to CityArt5/18/2012 9:50 AM
Some lovers of the Barnes Foundation’s art collection were fearful that moving it to a new space in Philadelphia would be disastrous. They were wrong, the critic Roberta Smith says.

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