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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.
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.