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Trolling for Strangers to Befriend	Art	7/31/2009 9:50 PM
Alec Soth has created a photographic career out of finding chemistry with strangers. His latest road trip explores the habitats of American monks, hermits and survivalists.
Design: Gems From the Design-Hero Archives	Design	8/2/2009 7:43 AM
A random selection of favorite video clips of design heroes and heroines.
Cultured Traveler: Concrete Dreams: France’s Housing Utopias	Travel and Vacations	8/1/2009 4:50 PM
A new tour in Lyon spotlights four avant-garde housing projects built in the 1920s and early ’30s that were once considered utopian models.
A Legacy of War: Fake Art in Vietnam	Art	8/1/2009 2:54 AM
Leaders at the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum in Hanoi aren’t sure which of the works are authentic and which are copies commissioned to protect originals during the country’s wars.
Mobile Gives Manga a Lift	Comic Books and Strips	8/2/2009 8:05 AM
For a variety of reasons, the mobile version of manga has it booming again, giving life — and bringing a little controversy — to the venerable Japanese comic form.
Tony Rosenthal, Sculptor of Public Art, Dies at 94	Rosenthal, Tony	7/31/2009 11:44 PM
The artist created “Alamo,” the eternally popular revolving black cube in Astor Place in the East Village, and many other public sculptures.
Art Review \| Ron Arad: Bravado That Swaggers to Its Own Beat	Art	7/30/2009 10:48 PM
The designer Ron Arad has always had a lot of nerve, and it ricochets around his rambunctious retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art like an ammo belt’s worth of stray bullets.
Art Review \| 'The Golden Age of Dutch Seascapes': When Galleons Ruled the Waves	Art	7/31/2009 12:13 AM
There are periods of calm in “The Golden Age of Dutch Seascapes” at the Peabody Essex Museum, but the overall impression is harrowing.
Art Review \| Oskar Kokoschka: Modernity Met With Hope and Despair	Art	7/30/2009 10:58 PM
The Neue Galerie presents six of the early oil-on-canvas portraits that made his reputation before World War I and about 40 works on paper.
Art Review \| Dorothy Iannone: An Iconoclast Who Valorizes the Erotic and Ecstatic	Art	7/31/2009 11:47 AM
Two shows by the self-taught American artist deliver an invigorating shock to an art world lulled, as of late, by the tasteful, conservative and blue-chip.

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