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Cleveland Museum’s New Wing Makes the Case for Further Expansion

By Steven Litt
Architect Rafael Viñoly’s eight-year renovation project is only halfway completed, but standing still would be an admission of failure. Full article
EDITOR'S PICKS

London Gallery Stroll

By Judd Tully

Ten standout exhibitions in the British capital, featuring everything from contemporary art, to eerily similar found flea-market paintings, to design.
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Athens Biennial: Multinational Visions of Heaven

By Chris Bors

The event's second installment, titled “Heaven,” is an ambitious, if somewhat disjointed, exhibition bursting with surprises from 141 artists and collaboratives from 26 countries.
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COMINGS & GOINGS

Timothy Rub Leaving Cleveland for Philadelphia Museum

Also, Tan Boon Hui has been named the next director of the Singapore Art Museum.
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AUCTION REPORTS

Market Motors Along at Christie’s Contemporary Sale

By Judd Tully

Results weren’t spectacular at the last evening auction of the season, but sell-through rates were high, bargains were made, and buyers seemed willing to shell out for decent work.
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AUCTION REPORTS

Phillips Contemporary: That Was Then, This Is Now

By Judd Tully

Results were down 79 percent from last year, but there was a hint of optimism at the contemporary-art evening sale nonetheless.
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At the Queens Museum, Painting Colin Powell in the Stars

By Jillian Steinhauer

Canadian-American artist Dorothea Rockburne is working this summer, in public view, on a mural of the night sky over Jamaica the night the U.S. statesman was born.
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LIVES

Remembering Michael Jackson

By ARTINFO

How the art world has immortalized the King of Pop — whether earnestly or with a raised eyebrow.
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AI REVIEWS

A Consuming Performance

By Sarah Douglas

The real star of Chinese artist Song Dong's performance piece at PaceWildenstein on Thursday was the feasting audience.
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ART MARKET

Collecting Michael Jackson

By Ruthie Ackerman

How will collectors of Michael Jackson memorabilia respond to his untimely death?
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ART PARTIES

Chelsea Don’t Stop (’Til You Get Enough)

It may be a recession — and the rainiest June in recent memory — but New York's biggest gallery neighborhood partied last night anyway.
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Top-loaded with fresh material, the auction house’s contemporary evening sale produced crackling results and few casualties.
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