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Exhibition Review: Rethinking Locally: New Jersey Opens Big Museum Doors Again	New Jersey State Museum	5/16/2008 9:43 PM
The New Jersey State Museum’s main building reopens in Trenton on Saturday after four years of renovation, but appeals for celebration are premature.
Art Review: Unwrapping the Secrets of Ordinary Objects	Dreher, Peter	5/16/2008 9:31 PM
“Here’s the Thing: The Single Object Still Life” is a visually and philosophically engaging exhibition at the Katonah Museum of Art.
Art Review: When Artworks Collide	Art	5/15/2008 11:05 PM
“Who’s Afraid of Jasper Johns?,” a group show at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in Chelsea, is the latest proof that you don’t have to be a museum to shake things up.
Exhibition Review \| 'The Horse': Man’s Best Friend, Hoofed Department	American Museum of Natural History	5/16/2008 8:34 AM
Without horses, where would we be? The answer is revealed in a sprawling, charming and illuminating exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History.
Art: Rauschenberg Got a Lot From the City and Left a Lot Behind	Art	5/16/2008 11:06 AM
Here’s what’s on view right now and what will be brought out of storage or rearranged to honor Robert Rauschenberg in the coming weeks.
Art Review: From Around the Globe, a Mustering of the Tribes	Art	5/16/2008 12:45 PM
The New York International Tribal & Textile Arts Show assembles a forceful, entrancing ensemble of tribal art from Africa, Oceania, Asia and North and South America.
Art Review \| 'Polaroids: Mapplethorpe': Spontaneity Was the Medium and the Message	Photography	5/15/2008 11:10 PM
The beloved instant photograph could not have hoped for a better sendoff than the Whitney Museum’s exhibition of Robert Mapplethorpe’s Polaroids.
Inside Art: Bacon’s ‘Dyer’ Expected to Attract Big Numbers	Art	5/15/2008 11:06 PM
At Sotheby’s contemporary-art auction in London, one of the star paintings will be a portrait of George Dyer, Francis Bacon’s companion, who committed suicide in 1971.
Antiques: Tending to the Legacy of a Deco Master	Art	5/15/2008 11:11 PM
Jules Leleu never achieved the international fame of other 20th-century French designers, but he was just as successful and probably more prolific.
Art in Review	Art	5/15/2008 11:09 PM
The New York Photo Festival in Dumbo, Brooklyn, Elizabeth Peyton at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise and Josephine Meckseper at Elizabeth Dee Gallery.

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