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Art Review \| Elizabeth Peyton: The Personal and the Painterly	Art	10/9/2008 10:36 PM
The best of Elizabeth Peyton’s portraits, as seen at the New Museum, are accessible, devotional and visually alive.
Art Review \| 'Traces of the Calligrapher': Copying the Koran, One Book at a Time	Art	10/10/2008 12:20 AM
Two shows on calligraphy and the Koran at the Asia Society are perfect in size and proportion, gorgeous, and worthy of the book they honor.
Art Review \| 'The Essential Art of African Textiles': African Art, Modern and Traditional: Seductive Patterns From a Rich Palette	Art	10/9/2008 10:38 PM
Two new exhibitions provide insight on the history and artistry, of wax-print cloth in Africa — and on Western viewers’ relative ignorance of both.
Art Review \| 'Rhythms of Modern Life': A Century in Motion, Diving Into Modernity	Art	10/9/2008 10:42 PM
An interesting but problematic exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum considers the impact of machine age idealism on a few progressive British printmakers.
Art Review \| George Tooker: Baleful Visions of Modernity, Mystically Rendered	Art	10/9/2008 10:40 PM
George Tooker’s baleful visions of modern life are depicted in models and methods that Modernism had supposedly rendered obsolete, as seen at the National Academy Museum.
Arts, Briefly: Jacques Brel's Auction Sales Are Alive and Well		10/9/2008 10:03 PM
A Sotheby’s auction of the Belgian singer and songwriter Jacques Brel’s possessions has generated more than $1.4 million in sales, Bloomberg News reported.
Where Fish Sticks Swim Free and Chicken Nuggets Self-Dip	Art	10/8/2008 11:12 PM
An installation by Banksy, the pseudonymous, secretive British artist, was unveiled on Wednesday at 89 Seventh Avenue South in Greenwich Village.
Arts, Briefly: Sales Underwhelm at Art Auctions		10/8/2008 11:06 PM
Adding to speculation about how the worldwide economic downturn will affect next month’s big auctions in New York, two sales abroad drew disappointing numbers.
Art Review: In Tribal Dresses, Life Stories, Intricate Labor and Female Bonding	Art	10/7/2008 10:43 PM
More than 50 dresses are on view in “Identity by Design” at the New York branch of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian.
Italy Defends Treasures (and Laws) With a Show	Art	10/7/2008 10:37 PM
Every statue, vase and archaeological shard on display in “Ruins and the Rebirth of Art in Italy,” a show that opened last week at the Colosseum in Rome, has a story to tell.