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Art Review: Renoir’s Full-Length Paintings at the Frick Collection	Art	2/9/2012 11:04 PM
The emphasis in this fashion-conscious show is less on the clothes than on the traditional portrait format and the imposing scale that displays them to best advantage.
Frame: Dog Art at Metropolitan Museum and Morgan Library	Dogs	2/9/2012 11:00 PM
From mutts to purebreds, dogs are immortalized in New York City’s art collections.
ArtsBeat: Dealer Settles with Artist in California Royalties Case	Valentine, Dean	2/9/2012 1:27 PM
The art collector Dean Valentine settled a lawsuit brought against him by the painter Mark Grotjahn over a failure to pay resale royalties on the artist's work, as required by a rarely enforced California law.
ArtsBeat: Behind the Poster: 'Peter and the Starcatcher'	Behind the Poster	2/9/2012 12:25 PM
John W. Long, a Vermont artist who works with wood, talks about helping to create the poster for the Broadway production of "Peter and the Starcatcher."
ArtsBeat: Air-Cleansing Nylon Star Wins MoMA PS 1 Courtyard Competition	Bergdoll, Barry	2/8/2012 3:37 PM
An architectural installation meant to clean the air to a degree equivalent to removing 260 cars from the road has been selected as the winning design in a competition to transform the courtyard of MoMA P.S. 1 in Long Island City, Queens, this summer.
Art Review: Henry Ossawa Tanner at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts	Art	2/9/2012 11:27 PM
“Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit,” on view at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, is a gripping exhibition of an African-American painter in search of a race-blind environment.
Art Review: ‘Testimonios,’ Popular Arts at El Museo del Barrio	Art	2/10/2012 12:00 AM
“Testimonios: 100 Years of Popular Expression” at El Museo del Barrio is a kaleidoscopic display of more than 300 works taken almost entirely from the museum’s collection.
Art Review: ‘Spies in the House of Art’ at the Metropolitan Museum	Art	2/10/2012 12:00 AM
The 17 contemporary works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition “Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film and Video” were inspired by museums.
Robert Hecht, Antiquities Dealer, Dies at 92	Hecht, Robert	2/9/2012 10:25 PM
Mr. Hecht, who sold the Euphronius krater to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1972 for $1.3 million, was long suspected of illegal trafficking in looted artifacts.
OLIN Designs Metropolitan Museum a New Fifth Avenue Plaza	Metropolitan Museum of Art	2/8/2012 2:07 PM
An ambitious plan is in the works to transform the plaza in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art into a more efficient and pleasing space.

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