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Denver’s Unconventional Art, Ready for the Convention	Conventions, National (US)	8/20/2008 10:48 PM
Denver is hoping to declare its emerging artistic identity to the world next week when the gaze of the global news media and political power turns on the city.
In Beijing, No Making Heads or Tails of a New Building	Olympic Games (2008)	8/21/2008 1:28 AM
A mysterious dragon-shaped building called the Pangu Plaza has Chinese newspapers abuzz with rumors about important guests residing within.
George Deem, 75, Artist Inspired by Master Painters, Is Dead	Art	8/20/2008 11:57 PM
Mr. Deem admired master painters so much that he spent his own career repainting their works, albeit with clever alterations.
Fun on the Farm Down Home in Long Island City	P S 1 Contemporary Art Center	8/19/2008 9:07 PM
This year, instead of the usual urban beach-themed décor, the courtyard at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center has been transformed into an urban farm.
Art Review: Indian Modernism via an Eclectic and Elusive Artist	Bose, Nandalal	8/19/2008 9:18 PM
“Rhythms of India: The Art of Nandalal Bose (1882-1966)" delivers a significant piece of news: that modernism wasn’t a purely Western product sent out to a hungry and waiting world.
China Won’t Lend Artworks to Asia Society Exhibition	Art	8/19/2008 9:28 PM
The Chinese Ministry of Culture had originally agreed to allow the society to borrow works for “Art and China’s Revolution,” promoted as among the first shows devoted to that era.
Movie Review \| 'Richard Serra: Thinking on Your Feet': Watching as Richard Serra Thinks Big and Does Big	Motion Pictures	8/19/2008 9:17 PM
Operating at the intersection of art and industrial engineering, Richard Serra is an informative if unanimated guide through “Thinking on Your Feet.”
Television Review: Giving Shelter: Students Scramble to Design and Construct a New Orleans House	Architecture	8/19/2008 9:03 PM
The Sundance Channel’s six-part series “Architecture School” offers a window into the real-world pressures of becoming an architect and realizing a design.
Manny Farber, Iconoclastic Film Critic and Artist, Dies at 91	Motion Pictures	8/20/2008 12:24 AM
Mr. Farber was a painter whose spiky, impassioned film criticism waged war against sacred cows like Orson Welles.
Art Review: The Painter and the City: Parallel Tales of Growth	Wright, Joseph	8/18/2008 11:07 PM
An exhibition in its final weeks at the Yale Center for British Art, “Joseph Wright of Derby in Liverpool,” is the first to focus on this period of the 18th-century painter’s career.