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Art Review \| '5,000 Years of Japanese Art': Cleaning Out Closets, Reuniting Old Friends	Art	12/17/2009 11:53 PM
The Metropolitan Museum’s survey of exceptional Japanese art includes items that have been in and out of storage since the collection’s arrival in town nearly 35 years ago.
Stephen Wynn Paid Record Price for a Rembrandt	Art	12/18/2009 12:51 PM
The mysterious telephone bidder who paid $33.2 million for a Rembrandt portrait was buying the painting on behalf of the Las Vegas casino owner Stephen A. Wynn.
Art Review \| James Tissot: Jesus, Illustrated: Tissot’s New Testament	Tissot, James	12/18/2009 12:06 AM
The Brooklyn Museum’s exhibition of 124 paintings from James Tissot’s series,“The Life of Christ,” is surprisingly intriguing and moving.
Art Review \| Bruce Nauman: Listen: Can You Hear the Space?	Art	12/18/2009 12:01 AM
At 68, Bruce Nauman continues to redefine art, as seen at his show of videos, sculptures, installations and sound pieces at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Art Review \| John Singer Sargent: Before His Famous Portraits, Sargent Looked to the Sea	Art	12/18/2009 12:16 AM
Seascapes, some romantic and some methodical, from Sargent’s formative period and beyond at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington.
Peter Forakis, Geometric Sculptor, Is Dead at 82	Art	12/17/2009 12:48 AM
Mr. Forakis was a sculptor who helped found Park Place, a prominent New York artists’ cooperative gallery of the 1960s.
Architecture: In Washington, a Different Kind of Bubble	Architecture	12/15/2009 2:52 PM
Richard Koshalek, the newly appointed director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, plans to erect a 145-foot-tall inflatable meeting hall on the National Mall.
Art Review \| Gabriel Orozco: Slicing a Car, Fusing Bicycles and Turning Ideas Into Art	Art	12/13/2009 11:17 PM
Gabriel Orozco’s retrospective is a taut, attractive, but oddly conventional looking survey.
Arts, Briefly: Losses at the Smithsonian Institution	Smithsonian Institution	12/13/2009 11:38 PM
The Smithsonian Institution has lost $12.3 million in property and can’t find it.
Art: A Whale of a Return to MoMA	Art	12/12/2009 9:00 AM
After 20 years, a Mexican artist is making his move from the corners to the big space.