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In Modern China, ‘Little Kingdoms’ for the People	Architecture	10/12/2008 10:14 PM
A new exhibition offers further evidence that China has become the most fertile territory on the globe for experimentation by architects.
Art: From a Big Imagination, a Tiny Circus	Art	10/10/2008 7:14 PM
A show at the Whitney Museum will recreate Alexander Calder’s world of trapeze artists and galloping horses.
Art Review: Not Quite Documentary Art	Photography	10/11/2008 10:45 PM
An exhibit at the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan University encourages viewers to think about the ways in which artists use and abuse documentary principles.
Arts, Briefly: Sarkozy, Merkel to Open De Gaulle Memorial	Monuments and Memorials	10/10/2008 10:19 PM
President Nicolas Sarkozy of France and Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany will inaugurate a memorial complex dedicated to Charles de Gaulle.
Arts, Briefly: Italy Questions Items in Antiquities Auction	Art	10/10/2008 10:19 PM
A former Italian culture minister says he is trying to stop Bonhams auction house in London from selling several archaeological artifacts that he contends may have been looted in Italy.
Art Review \| Elizabeth Peyton: The Personal and the Painterly	Art	10/10/2008 2:57 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 10:12 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	10/10/2008 11:57 AM
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.