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The Blobs Aren’t Talking	Art	3/7/2010 12:08 AM
Ken Price remains a remarkably productive sculptor and renderer of graphic, cartoonlike drawings.
Suicide Raises Legal Issues in Indian Artifacts Cases	Looting	3/9/2010 12:20 AM
The effect of a central federal witness’s death, the third suicide related to a sprawling inquiry into artifact theft, is unclear.
Arts, Briefly: Architectural Records Saved at Last Minute		3/8/2010 11:53 PM

Street Art That’s Finding a New Address	Art	3/7/2010 12:52 PM
Pop Pluralism is the skateboarding, graffiti-tagging, sometimes bratty and rebellious younger sibling of the art shown in most Chelsea galleries.
Visuals: The World as Their Canvas	Books and Literature	3/8/2010 12:42 PM
Visual books about maps, the design firm Unimark International and African and Central Asian “war rugs.”
Frank Williams, Architect of Skyscrapers, Dies at 73	Williams, Frank	3/8/2010 11:45 PM
Mr. Williams was the lead architect or collaborated with other prominent designers on 20 buildings in Manhattan.
Arts \| Long Island: A Plush Boudoir Welcomes the Curious	Art	3/5/2010 6:32 PM
Polly Wood-Holland is recreating an early-20th-century mural at Coe Hall, a mansion at Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park.
Art Review \| New Jersey: Reviving the Exotic to Critique Exoticism	Art	3/5/2010 6:33 PM
In the exhibition “Lalla Essaydi: Les Femmes du Maroc,” the photographer plays with stereotypes by placing Moroccan women in scenes from Orientalist paintings.
Art Review \| 'Skin Fruit': Anti-Mainstream Museum’s Mainstream Show	Art	3/5/2010 12:00 AM
The New Museum’s exhibition of artworks from the collection of Dakis Joannou, one of its trustees, did not sound like a good idea. Seeing it up close does not change that.
Art Review \| 'The Armory Show': Ahoy From Nudes, a Pirate and Scrooge McDuck	Art	3/7/2010 8:29 PM
There is not a lot of socio-politically provocative art to be found in the Armory Show. There are, however, many works in the bite-the-hand-that-feeds department.