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‘Event Horizon’: Antony Gormley’s Skyline Interlopers	Sculpture	3/18/2010 11:09 PM
For Antony Gormley’s first public art project in New York, 31 naked sculptures of the artist will be perched on rooftops around the city.
Exhibition Review \| Hall of Human Origins: In the Smithsonian’s Newest Hall, a Big Family Tree	Evolution	3/18/2010 10:58 PM
Long-term hominin evolution is the main concern of the impressive David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins, which opened this week at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
Art Review \| 'Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art': On the Road With Seekers at the Asia Society	Art	3/18/2010 11:01 PM
The Asia Society is addressing peregrination and devotion directly in a deftly shaped exhibition called “Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art.”
Art Review \| Josef Albers and Ken Price: Josef Albers and Ken Price: Bauhaus Meets Venice Beach	Art	3/18/2010 11:09 PM
“Josef Albers/Ken Price,” a thrilling exhibition at the Brooke Alexander Gallery in SoHo, can make you feel as if your eyes were attached to a bigger, more perceptive brain.
Museums Special Section: The New Generation of Museum Curators	Museums	3/17/2010 10:25 PM
Far from the stereotype of fusty academics, curators in their 30s and 40s are bringing eclectic backgrounds and a fresh eye to Manhattan’s museums.
Judith Rothschild Foundation Promotes Art and Its Trustee	Art	3/18/2010 1:08 AM
A major beneficiary of the Judith Rothschild Foundation, besides the artists it promotes, has been its only trustee.
Books of The Times: ‘Backing Into Forward’: Jules Feiffer’s Ink-Stained Memoir	Cartoons and Cartoonists	3/17/2010 10:11 PM
The cartoonist Jules Feiffer traces the roots of his subversive stance in this funny, revealing and often biting memoir.
Museums Special Section: The Thrill of Science, Tamed by Agendas	Science and Technology	3/17/2010 10:34 PM
Science museums experiment in their struggle to define themselves.
Museums Special Section: Haiti’s Visionaries, Rising From the Rubble	Art	3/18/2010 12:31 AM
Many of Haiti’s museums were damaged in the country’s earthquake, but an exhibition scheduled there for 2012 hopes to revive the fortunes of the country’s creators.
Arts, Briefly: 20th Anniversary of a Boston Art Heist		3/17/2010 10:00 PM
The 1990 heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston — in which paintings and drawings worth well more than $300 million were taken — has long been exceptional.