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In Faltering Economy, Auction Houses Crash Back to Earth	Art	11/17/2008 2:34 PM
Recent art auctions seemed to signal a new era in sales, one that featured the return of the seasoned collector and more-sober business practices.
Arts, Briefly: LeWitt Retrospective	LeWitt, Sol	11/17/2008 12:23 AM
After months of drafting and painting work by a team of 65 artists and art students, the exhibition “Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective” is ready for the public.
Grace Hartigan, 86, Abstract Painter, Dies	Hartigan, Grace	11/18/2008 1:37 AM
Ms. Hartigan was a second-generation Abstract Expressionist whose gestural, intensely colored paintings often incorporated images drawn from popular culture.
Architecture: Saving Buffalo’s Untold Beauty	Architecture	11/14/2008 10:33 AM
For all its historic value, Buffalo’s architecture has for decades seemed strangely frozen in time.
Art: Mapping an Imagined Order, Page by Page	Mullican, Matt	11/17/2008 9:25 PM
An exploration of a mind’s landscape and its symbolism, sometimes under hypnosis.
What Is Art For?	Hyde, Lewis	11/17/2008 1:46 PM
The poet, philosopher, translator and scholar Lewis Hyde has spent his life trying to figure that out — and became a literary cult figure in the process.
Style: The Big Picture	Finney, Garrett	11/14/2008 2:00 PM
Garrett Finney is helping to design a rover that will comfortably house two people in the absolute discomfort of outer space.
Visions of the Holocaust, and of an Artist’s Joys	Art	11/16/2008 4:04 AM
A retrospective of the work of Arbit Blatas brings together brightly colored landscapes, portraits and stage designs with bronze bas-reliefs that he cast as memorials to the Holocaust.
The Exile’s Palette	Art	11/14/2008 4:19 PM
A biography of Marc Chagall explores his impulses, his art and his complicated relationship with Russia.
From Ashes, Reviving a Place of Wild Dreams	Art	11/15/2008 12:01 PM
A February fire destroyed most of Deyrolle, the legendary taxidermy store in Paris, but the shop’s supporters are vowing to rebuild.