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Sid Garrison's work in colored pencil in Limn
San Franciscan Sid Garrison displays impressive staying power in his fourth show of drawings at Limn Gallery. Garrison works in colored pencil in a manner at once abstract, improvisational and subtly responsive to pressures of the wider culture. His medium...
San Francisco Chronicle Saturday, July 05, 2008Art review: Chihuly at the de Young
Admirers of empty virtuosity may thrill to "Chihuly at the de Young," the de Young Museum's celebration of contemporary glass master Dale Chihuly. But so will those among the art public building a dossier against director John Buchanan's leadership of the...
San Francisco Chronicle Saturday, July 05, 2008Museum Review: Good Guys, Bad Guys and Spies, All Wrapped in 'Edutainment'
The International Spy Museum and the National Museum of Crime & Punishment in Washington promise the latest forms of "edutainment," which generously blur boundaries between fact and fancy.
The New York Times Saturday, July 05, 2008Video Game Review | Metal Gear Solid 4: Making a Game That Acts Like a Film
In the final edition of the Metal Gear Solid series, narrative is the objective.
The New York Times Saturday, July 05, 2008Art Review | 'Radiance From the Rain Forest': Objects From a Long-Vanished Peru, Parading All Their Magnificent Plumage
This show supplements the Met's rarely displayed holdings of featherwork with examples borrowed from public and private collections.
NYtimes.com Saturday, July 05, 2008For an Artist at Full Speed, Everything Else Just Takes a Back Seat
"The Art of Failure: Chuck Connelly Not For Sale" chronicles Mr. Connelly's fast rise and long career slide.
NYtimes.com Saturday, July 05, 2008David Blunkett: 'I'm not the Simon Cowell of law and order'
Former Home Secretary David Blunkett talks to James Rampton about his role in Banged Up, a new reality TV show.
Telegraph Saturday, July 05, 2008A Dancer Goes Back to Her Past in Berlin
When Dominique O. Rosales takes the stage in front of the Brandenburg Gate with the other members of the Ailey II dance company, it will mark the end of an unlikely round-trip journey.
The New York Times Saturday, July 05, 2008Staff puzzled by National Gallery chief curator's sudden exit
There's been an upheaval at Canada's National Gallery in Ottawa with the abrupt departure of chief curator David Franklin.
CBC.ca Saturday, July 05, 2008If Goya didn't paint 'Colossus,' who did?
For years Spain's famed Prado Museum had its suspicions about one of its most prized Goyas. Now the museum says it is certain the painting is not by the 18th century master. The Prado's announcement last week about the "Colossus," a large oil painting...
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