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Eli Broad Plans Another Art Space	Art	11/20/2008 12:06 AM
Eli Broad, the philanthropist whose gift financed a new contemporary-art building this year at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is planning to build another exhibition space for his vast collection.
Pact Will Relocate Artifacts to Italy From Cleveland	Art	11/20/2008 12:07 AM
The Cleveland Museum of Art has agreed to hand over 13 ancient artifacts and an early Renaissance cross to Italy after long negotiations.
Jan Krugier, Dealer in Modern Art, Dies at 80	Art	11/19/2008 11:05 PM
Mr. Krugier survived two years in Nazi concentration camps and went on to become a highly regarded dealer of work by artists like Picasso, Morandi, Balthus and Giacometti.
At Meeting, Smithsonian Practices New Openness	Smithsonian Institution	11/18/2008 1:22 AM
The Smithsonian Institution held the first public board meeting in its 162-year history on Monday. The first question: “Why did you not all resign?”
In Faltering Economy, Auction Houses Crash Back to Earth	Art	11/17/2008 2:34 PM
Recent art auctions seemed to signal a new era in sales, one that featured the return of the seasoned collector and more-sober business practices.
Arts, Briefly: LeWitt Retrospective	LeWitt, Sol	11/17/2008 12:23 AM
After months of drafting and painting work by a team of 65 artists and art students, the exhibition “Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective” is ready for the public.
Grace Hartigan, 86, Abstract Painter, Dies	Deaths (Obituaries)	11/19/2008 1:33 PM
Ms. Hartigan was a second-generation Abstract Expressionist whose gestural, intensely colored paintings often incorporated images drawn from popular culture.
Architecture: Saving Buffalo’s Untold Beauty	Architecture	11/19/2008 5:17 PM
For all its historic value, Buffalo’s architecture has for decades seemed strangely frozen in time.
Art: Mapping an Imagined Order, Page by Page	Mullican, Matt	11/17/2008 9:25 PM
An exploration of a mind’s landscape and its symbolism, sometimes under hypnosis.
What Is Art For?	Hyde, Lewis	11/17/2008 1:46 PM
The poet, philosopher, translator and scholar Lewis Hyde has spent his life trying to figure that out — and became a literary cult figure in the process.