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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.
A Floating City With Junkyard Roots	Art	8/17/2008 7:42 PM
“Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea” is part floating artwork, part performance, part mobile utopia and seemingly part summer camp for grown-up artsy kids.
Recalling a Mission to Capture an Era’s Misery	Photography	8/18/2008 11:10 AM
The PBS film “Documenting the Face of America” shows how a small federal agency’s New Deal project to document poverty helped shape modern documentary photography.
I Was There. Just Ask Photoshop.	Photography	8/15/2008 10:01 PM
As image-editing software grows in sophistication and ubiquity, alterations go far beyond removing red-eye and whitening teeth.
Art: Russian and Rich: Art’s New Tastemaker	Art	8/15/2008 11:32 AM
Dasha Zhukova’s new art center in Moscow and her connections have made her an art-world It Girl overnight.
Art: Your (Nonpartisan) Message Here	Art	8/18/2008 4:18 PM
For the coming political conventions, Minneapolis and Denver, the host cities, have urged artists to make works that address the political process.
From Spider-Man to Ayn Rand	Ditko, Steve	8/18/2008 11:46 AM
A scholar recounts the artist Steve Ditko’s pioneering and eccentric career in comics.
Style: Butterfly Fracture	Gehry, Frank	8/16/2008 11:00 PM
With his design for the Serpentine Pavilion, Frank Gehry goes for broke.
Art Review: Provocateur: The Peter Saul Manifesto	Saul, Peter	8/15/2008 9:39 PM
The influence of Mr. Saul’s paintings, with their cartoony figures, lurid-lush colors, splatter-film expressionism and contrarian take on topical subjects, pervades recent art.
Museums: New Orleans Is Proud to Put Its Long, Complex Past on Display	Museums	8/15/2008 8:41 PM
In a city that has had many near-death experiences, and where decadence, disease and racial strife have accompanied its festivities, many of its museums seem to touch slightly raw nerves.