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A Work by Tino Sehgal at the Guggenheim Walked With You	Art	3/12/2010 11:22 PM
In “This Progress,” a work by Tino Sehgal, visitors were ushered up the spiral ramp by series of guides who asked them questions related to the idea of progress.
Art Review \| 'Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present': At MoMA, a Performance Artist Endures	Performance Art	3/11/2010 11:26 PM
With the opening of “Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present,” a long-building energy wave of performance art hits the Museum of Modern Art full force.
Art Review \| Otto Dix: At Neue Galerie, a Retrospective of a Deeply German Artist	Art	3/11/2010 11:25 PM
This retrospective of Otto Dix’s unforgiving art, the first show of its kind ever held in North America, is engrossing yet sadly flawed.
Art Review \| 'Twilight Visions': Shocking Is Poetic at International Center of Photography	Photography	3/11/2010 11:22 PM
Many photographs in this absorbing show at the International Center of Photography set up poetic contrasts between the new and the old.
Metropolitan Museum’s Western Instruments, in a Shinier Home	Musical Instruments	3/11/2010 11:26 PM
The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently reopened its André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments after eight months.
Art Review \| 'To Live Forever': Egyptian Funerary Art and Artifacts at the Brooklyn Museum	Art	3/12/2010 1:26 PM
The Brooklyn Museum has assembled an exhibition that explores all facets of the Egyptian funerary industry.
Archive and Historical Society Exhibition for Grateful Dead	Rock Music	3/12/2010 3:30 PM
An exhibit at the New-York Historical Society is the first large showing of items from the Grateful Dead archive.
Abroad: Caravaggio in Ascendance: An Antihero’s Time to Shine	Caravaggio	3/10/2010 2:36 PM
By one new metric, Michelangelo has been bumped from his perch atop the Italian art charts by Caravaggio.
Bruce J. Graham, Chicago Architect Who Designed Sears Tower, Dies at 84	Graham, Bruce J.	3/10/2010 11:46 PM
Known for his integration of modernist design and sophisticated engineering in buildings, Mr. Graham played a role in changing Chicago’s skyline.
Architecture Review: A Paris Tribute to an Almost-Sideways View of the World	Architecture	3/10/2010 12:30 AM
There’s something both touching and disturbing at the heart of “Claude Parent: Graphic and Built Works.”