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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: Renoir’s Full-Length Paintings at the Frick Collection	Art	2/10/2012 2:47 PM
The emphasis in this fashion-conscious show is less on the clothes than on the traditional portrait format and the imposing scale that displays them to best advantage.
Frame: Dog Art at Metropolitan Museum and Morgan Library	Dogs	2/10/2012 2:47 PM
From mutts to purebreds, dogs are immortalized in New York City’s art collections.
ArtsBeat: Darwin's Papers Show the Evolution of His Ideas	American Museum of Natural History	2/10/2012 4:58 PM
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.
Robert Hecht, Antiquities Dealer, Dies at 92	Hecht, Robert	2/10/2012 2:17 PM
Mr. Hecht, who sold the Euphronios krater to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1972 for $1.3 million, was long suspected of illegal trafficking in looted artifacts.
Art Review: ‘Spies in the House of Art’ at the Metropolitan Museum	Art	2/10/2012 3:00 PM
The 17 contemporary works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition “Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film and Video” were inspired by museums.
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.
Art Review: ‘Testimonios,’ Popular Arts at El Museo del Barrio	Art	2/10/2012 2:47 PM
“Testimonios: 100 Years of Popular Expression” at El Museo del Barrio is a kaleidoscopic display of more than 300 works taken almost entirely from the museum’s collection.