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Art Review: Artists, Toe the Party Line	Art	9/4/2008 11:36 PM
The Asia Society offers a modest but explosive kernel of a show on the history of culture and politics in China.
Art Review \| R. Crumb: Mr. Natural Goes to the Museum	Comic Books and Strips	9/4/2008 10:08 PM
“R. Crumb’s Underground ” at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia offers an excellent opportunity to explore the artist’s five decades in comic strips.
Art Review \| Kehinde Wiley: A Hot Conceptualist Finds the Secret of Skin	Art	9/4/2008 10:14 PM
The Studio Museum in Harlem’s show proposes that Kehinde Wiley’s intellectual ambition and Photo Realist chops have allowed his career to get ahead of his art.
Art Review \| 'Focus': Exploiting the Ordinary to Create the Ingenious	Art	9/4/2008 10:18 PM
“Picasso Sculpture,” the latest exhibition in the Museum of Modern Art’s collection-based “Focus” series, turns the spotlight on his assemblages and constructions.
Auction House Sues Buyer of Paintings	Auctions	9/4/2008 8:48 PM
Sotheby’s has filed a $16.8 million lawsuit against the art collector and Internet entrepreneur Halsey Minor for refusing to pay the auction house for three paintings he bought in May.
Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman, Donor of Abstract Expressionist Works to the Met, Dies at 94	Art	9/5/2008 2:23 AM
Mrs. Newman’s donation of artworks greatly bolstered the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s standing as an exhibitor of modern art.
CURRENTS \| Shows: French Design, From a Hotel to the Milky Way	Putman, Andrée	9/3/2008 9:25 PM
“Beyond Style,” a retrospective of the work of Andrée Putman, the French designer of things modern, opens Sept. 10 at the Cultural Services of the Embassy of France.
Look Closely: Getting Grips	Art	9/5/2008 2:27 AM
Librado Romero, a Times photographer, singled out fragments of works from the Met’s permanent collection as part of a challenge to our readers. This week’s theme: hands.
Inside Art: MoMA Increases Its Braque Holdings	Art	9/4/2008 10:17 PM
The Modern has purchased Georges Braque’s “Homage to J. S. Bach,” a Cubist painting made in 1911-12. It will be on view at the museum later this month.
Antiques: What the British Saw When They Looked at China	Art	9/4/2008 10:20 PM
Chinoiserie, European forms of orientalism in the decorative arts, is meant to evoke Chinese art, not imitate it.