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Art Review \| ‘After Nature’: Sometimes the Darkest Visions Boast the Blackest Humor	Art	7/18/2008 9:11 PM
“After Nature,” the big new show at the New Museum, is a strange, lugubrious, wildly uneven dream of an exhibition.
Design Review \| ‘Home Delivery’: Instant Houses, Then and Now	Architecture	7/18/2008 11:59 AM
The Modern makes a convincing case that prefabricated housing was both a central theme of Modernist history and a dream that remains very much alive today.
Art Review \| 'Muraqqa': An Emperors’ Art: Small, Refined, Jewel Toned	Art	7/17/2008 9:38 PM
A show at the Sackler Gallery in Washington showcases 82 rarely seen paintings, of the most elegant and refined variety, that were commissioned by Mughal emperors.
Art in Review	Hopper, Edward	7/17/2008 11:48 PM
Edward Hopper at Craig F. Starr Gallery, David Ellis at Roebling Hall, Fia Backstrom at White Columns and more.
Inside Art: ‘Master of Bronze’ Finally Has His Moment	Art	7/17/2008 8:34 PM
The Frick will dedicate a show to Riccio this fall, whome art historians consider the greatest of the Renaissance sculptors. His work is largely unknown to the general public.
Antiques: Little-Known Arbiter of Regency Taste Was a Man of the World	Art	7/17/2008 8:40 PM
Thomas Hope’s life and work are examined in an exhibition that opened this week at the Bard Graduate Center in Manhattan.
Museum and Gallery Listings		7/18/2008 1:05 AM
Selective listings from art critics of The New York Times.
Paul Byard, 68, Dies; Architect Renovated Landmarks	Byard, Paul Spencer	7/18/2008 12:36 AM
Mr. Byard, a land-use lawyer who returned to school in his late 30s to be an architect, became an important figure in the renovation of some of New York’s most prominent landmarks.
Joseph McCrindle, 85, Connoisseur of Art, Is Dead	Art	7/18/2008 12:28 AM
Mr. McCrindle was an art collector who amassed a trove of old master drawings and who founded and edited the Transatlantic Review to showcase young writers.
Vibrant Gateway Planned for Lincoln Center Campus	Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts	7/16/2008 10:45 PM
The architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien hope to transform Harmony Atrium, now an underused pass-through, into a “front porch” for Lincoln Center.