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Architecture Review \| Yale School of Art and Architecture: Yale Revelation: Renewal for a Building and Its Original Designer	Architecture	8/27/2008 8:44 PM
Now seen in its full glory after a major restoration and addition, the once-maligned Yale School of Art and Architecture turns out to be a masterpiece of late Modernism.
Art Review: Ancient Art, Served on a Present-Day Platter	Art	8/27/2008 8:41 AM
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s fine Latin American collection is back on view after three years’ absence, but it gets lost in the new nightclublike décor.
A Los Angeles Theater Is Renovated, Relieving Headache-Inducing Quirks	Theater	8/26/2008 9:46 PM
The Mark Taper Forum will reopen with a revival of John Guare’s “House of Blue Leaves” after a yearlong, $30 million renovation.
Riitta Immonen, a Founder of the Marimekko Textile Company, Dies at 90	Apparel	8/27/2008 12:44 AM
Ms. Immonen was a designer of uniforms and ready to wear with a couture touch.
Where Tradition Has Ruled, a Home for Contemporary Art	Art	8/25/2008 9:17 PM
The art that Anupam Poddar and his mother have collected will be exhibited in a new space in what will be, in effect, India’s first contemporary art museum.
Art Review: Layers to Comment on Layers of Imagery	Photography	8/25/2008 8:35 PM
Artists male and female, young and old, famous and fledgling are all represented in the Met’s “Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium Since 1960.”
An Architect Unshackled by Limits of the Real World	Architecture	8/25/2008 4:30 AM
These are lonely times for Lebbeus Woods, the irreverent architect whose dark and moody renderings made him a cult figure among students and academics.
John Russell, Art Critic for The Times, Dies at 89	Art	8/25/2008 2:17 AM
Mr. Russell contributed elegant, erudite art criticism for more than a half century to The Sunday Times of London and The New York Times.
Arts, Briefly: Hopper Site Endangered	Hopper, Edward	8/24/2008 10:21 PM
A zoning decision in the town of Truro, Mass., could have an affect on a view once enjoyed by the painter Edward Hopper.
Art: Public Art, Eyesore to Eye Candy	Art	8/22/2008 4:20 PM
Over the past 15 years public sculpture has become one of contemporary art’s more exciting areas of endeavor and certainly its most dramatically improved one.