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Architecture Review \| Jean Nouvel: Luxury Tower at Corner of Grit and Glamour in Chelsea	Architecture	3/14/2010 10:11 PM
Jean Nouvel’s new residential tower in Chelsea conjures a downtown New York we once loved and can now barely remember.
Finding Gems at the Fine Art Fair in Maastricht	Art	3/15/2010 12:14 AM
This year’s European Fine Art Fair has been notable for a few standout sales amid the absence of big-ticket items.
Performance Art Gains Favor; Fights Ensue	Performance Art	3/13/2010 7:21 PM
With performance art now fashionable, there’s a search for revenue that angers some artists.
Comics: The Upside-Down World of Gustave Verbeek - Complete Peanuts - Bloom County Library - Popeye - Plunder Island	Books and Literature	3/14/2010 1:50 AM
New collections of classic comics, including “Peanuts,” “Bloom County” and “Popeye.”
Arts \| Long Island: At Rogers Mansion, a Look at Influential Southampton Women	Women and Girls	3/12/2010 6:44 PM
An exhibition rescues from obscurity stories of art, sewing, tribal leadership and women’s suffrage.
A Work by Tino Sehgal at the Guggenheim Walked With You	Art	3/13/2010 12:35 PM
In “This Progress,” a work by Tino Sehgal, visitors were ushered up the spiral ramp by series of guides who asked them questions related to the idea of progress.
Art Review \| 'Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present': At MoMA, a Performance Artist Endures	Performance Art	3/11/2010 10:26 PM
With the opening of “Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present,” a long-building energy wave of performance art hits the Museum of Modern Art full force.
Art Review \| Otto Dix: At Neue Galerie, a Retrospective of a Deeply German Artist	Art	3/11/2010 10:25 PM
This retrospective of Otto Dix’s unforgiving art, the first show of its kind ever held in North America, is engrossing yet sadly flawed.
Art Review \| 'Twilight Visions': Shocking Is Poetic at International Center of Photography	Photography	3/11/2010 10:22 PM
Many photographs in this absorbing show at the International Center of Photography set up poetic contrasts between the new and the old.
Metropolitan Museum’s Western Instruments, in a Shinier Home	Musical Instruments	3/11/2010 10:26 PM
The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently reopened its André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments after eight months.