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Architecture: A Proposal for Penn Station and Madison Square Garden	Architecture	2/12/2012 4:22 PM
Remedying the calamity that is Penn Station by moving Madison Square Garden to the Javits Center site is a way to bring back light and airy glory to New York’s transportation hub.
Art: Jim Linderman Collects It All, Vintage Sleaze to Baptism Photos	Photography	2/12/2012 9:28 AM
Jim Linderman trolls flea markets, eBay and antiques stores, mining the margins of vintage popular culture. Some of his finds wind up in New York museums.
Portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln Is Deemed a Hoax	Lincoln, Mary Todd	2/12/2012 2:17 PM
The serene portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln that hung for 32 years in the Illinois governor’s mansion, and the touching tale accompanying it, are false.
ArtsBeat: Darwin's Papers Show the Evolution of His Ideas	American Museum of Natural History	2/13/2012 8:20 AM
Just in time for Charles Darwin's 203rd birthday on Sunday, the American Museum of Natural History is unveiling the first phase of its online Darwin Manuscripts Project.
ArtsBeat: Gerhard Richter Mobbed by Paparazzi as Retrospective Opens in Berlin	Richter, Gerhard	2/10/2012 11:12 AM
Interest in the German painter Gerhard Richter, already a superstar by art world standards, has surged in his native land around his 80th birthday on Thursday and a series of exhibitions and lectures, including a major retrospective that opened Friday in Berlin.
ArtsBeat: Dealer Settles with Artist in California Royalties Case	Valentine, Dean	2/9/2012 1:27 PM
The art collector Dean Valentine settled a lawsuit brought against him by the painter Mark Grotjahn over a failure to pay resale royalties on the artist's work, as required by a rarely enforced California law.
Makers: Who Made That Rubik’s Cube?	Puzzles	2/9/2012 6:00 AM
How a Hungarian architect designed an iconic Gen X toy.
Arts \| Westchester and Connecticut: ‘Piano as Art’ Exhibition in White Plains - Review	Pianos	2/11/2012 6:36 PM
“Piano as Art” exhibits sculptural and mixed media pieces inspired by and mostly composed of old piano parts.
Museum Review: Lincoln Museum at Expanded Ford’s Theater Complex	Museums	2/10/2012 8:19 PM
In 2009 the first part of a formal Lincoln tribute opened at the renovated Ford’s Theater; now a 10-story Center for Education and Leadership is opening across the street.
Art Review: Henry Ossawa Tanner at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts	Art	2/10/2012 3:00 PM
“Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit,” on view at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, is a gripping exhibition of an African-American painter in search of a race-blind environment.