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China’s Legacy: Let a Million Museums Bloom	Art	7/4/2008 12:21 AM
Most art is an unsettled category in China and museums have complicated uses.
Art Review: Storm-Tossed Visionary of Light	Art	7/4/2008 12:06 AM
The oil and watercolor paintings in the Metropolitan Museum’s “J. M. W. Turner” swing between overblown and moving, inspired and mechanical.
Design Review \| Buckminster Fuller: Fixing Earth One Dome at a Time	Art	7/4/2008 12:06 AM
A timely new exhibition of works by Buckminster Fuller at the Whitney Museum is likely to stir waves of nostalgia for those who miss the architecture of the cold war.
Along the Hudson, Searching for Old	Antiques	7/3/2008 9:19 PM
For country-weekend antiquing, the mid-Hudson Valley offers excellent prices, great scenery and, in terms of merchandise, a little of almost everything.
Art Review: Some Shows for Escape, Some for Introspection	Art	7/3/2008 9:04 PM
When the dog days arrive, many New York art galleries turn their exhibition spaces into pluralistic laboratories to test new talent and experiment with cool ideas.
Art Review: 3,344 People May Not Know Art but Know What They Like	Art	7/3/2008 8:58 PM
The Brooklyn Museum’s “Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition” invites its viewers to consider whether the crowd is better than the individual at picking quality photography.
Art in Review	Art	7/3/2008 9:01 PM
Tetsumi Kudo at Andrea Rosen, Hilary Harnischfeger at Never Work, Cliff Evans at Luxe Gallery and more.
Antiques: Diverse Sales Upriver at Stair Galleries	Auctions	7/3/2008 10:39 PM
An auction house on the Hudson is previewing a 500-lot “exposition auction,” which will feature a diverse range of furniture, mirrors, chandeliers and porcelain.
Inside Art: London Swings as a Dynamo for Selling Art	Auctions	7/3/2008 10:34 PM
The weak dollar has made London an attractive place for Americans to sell art, and has become the stomping ground for rich denizens of the former Soviet Union.
Museum and Gallery Listings	Art	7/3/2008 10:45 PM
Selective listings from art critics of The New York Times.