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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.
To Remember Beijing, Indelibly	Olympic Games (2008)	8/23/2008 8:34 PM
Slowly, tattooing is overcoming an ancient stigma in Beijing.