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Art Review \| 'Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present': At MoMA, a Performance Artist Endures	Performance Art	3/11/2010 4:56 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 5:25 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 5:02 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 5:20 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	3/11/2010 4:00 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	3/11/2010 3:40 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.”
Christie’s Wins Bid to Auction $150 Million Brody Collection	Art	3/10/2010 1:07 AM
The art collection of the Los Angeles philanthropist Frances Lasker Brody will be sold at Christie’s in New York in May.