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Starring: Christine Abbate
Film & Edit: Thomas DeJosia
Music: Caza

Colin Gee, whose work hovers between physical theater and dance, is an intriguing choice for a performing artist in residence at the Whitney Museum.

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Ambassador for the Art of Performance

With a city park installation, an artist blurs distinctions between sculpture and environment.

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Go Ahead, Play With (and on) the Art

A $10.6 million installation at the Central Park Zoo presents snow leopards in a habitat that maintains the illusion of their natural world.

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Exhibition Review | Allison Maher Stern Snow Leopard Exhibit: Leopards in the Mist

President Nicolas Sarkozy of France has called for a post-Kyoto urban plan that re-envisions the old city. Is this the 21st-century metropolis?

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Remaking Paris

When collectors asked for a price at Art Basel, which opened on Tuesday, the answer usually included the word “negotiable.”

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Inside Art: A Thriftier Lot Comes to Basel This Year

The Museum of Arts and Design’s retrospective of Gord Peteran, furniture maker and sculptor, offers both intriguing and puzzling pieces of his work.

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Art Review | Gord Peteran: Close Encounters With Tableness and Chairness

The Greek government on Thursday declined an offer from the British Museum to loan Greece the long disputed collection widely known as the Elgin Marbles, Agence France-Presse reported.

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Arts, Briefly: Greece Declines Loan of Elgin Marbles

France’s president has scaled back his ambition to redesign Paris, but still plans to improve the city’s transportation and housing stock.

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Paris Journal: A Paris Plan, Less Grand Than Gritty

The 53rd Venice Biennale is tidy, disciplined, cautious and unremarkable, suggesting a somewhat dull, deflated contemporary art world, professionalized to a fault, in search of a fresh consensus.

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Abroad: Small World Crammed on Biennale’s Grand Stage

The new 5,000-square-foot Derfner Judaica Museum, with a collection of artifacts that goes back centuries, will open Friday at the Hebrew Home at Riverdale.

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Museum Review | Derfner Judaica Museum: Jewish Art, the Hudson and Bingo in the Bronx

The new 5,000-square-foot Derfner Judaica Museum, with a collection of artifacts that goes back centuries, will open Friday at the Hebrew Home at Riverdale.

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Museum Review | Derfner Judaica Museum: Jewish Art, the Hudson and Bingo in the Bronx

An armed man who began shooting in the museum and a guard who returned fire were wounded, the police said.

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Two Shot at Holocaust Museum in D.C., Police Say