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Archive and Historical Society Exhibition for Grateful Dead	Rock Music	3/10/2010 5:15 PM
A new exhibition at the New-York Historical Society is the first large-scale public showing of artifacts from a large archive of historical materials devoted to the Grateful Dead.
Abroad: Caravaggio in Ascendance: An Antihero’s Time to Shine	Caravaggio	3/10/2010 2:36 PM
By one new metric, Michelangelo has been bumped from his perch atop the Italian art charts by Caravaggio.
Bruce J. Graham, Chicago Architect Who Designed Sears Tower, Dies at 84	Graham, Bruce J.	3/10/2010 12:34 PM
Known for his integration of modernist design and sophisticated engineering in buildings, Mr. Graham played a role in changing Chicago’s skyline.
Architecture Review: A Paris Tribute to an Almost-Sideways View of the World	Architecture	3/10/2010 12:30 AM
There’s something both touching and disturbing at the heart of “Claude Parent: Graphic and Built Works.”
Christie’s Wins Bid to Auction $150 Million Brody Collection	Art	3/10/2010 1:07 AM
The art collection of the Los Angeles philanthropist Frances Lasker Brody will be sold at Christie’s in New York in May.
Ken Price, Suddenly Dominating New York Galleries	Art	3/7/2010 12:08 AM
Ken Price remains a remarkably productive sculptor and renderer of graphic, cartoonlike drawings.
Suicide Raises Legal Issues in Indian Artifacts Cases	Looting	3/9/2010 12:35 AM
The effect of a central federal witness’s death, the third suicide related to a sprawling inquiry into artifact theft, is unclear.
Arts, Briefly: Architectural Records Saved at Last Minute		3/9/2010 11:19 AM

Street Art Is Landing at New Addresses, in Galleries	Art	3/10/2010 2:19 PM
Pop Pluralism is the skateboarding, graffiti-tagging, sometimes bratty and rebellious younger sibling of the art shown in most Chelsea galleries.
Visuals: Histories of Maps and Other Visual Books	Books and Literature	3/8/2010 12:42 PM
Visual books about maps, the design firm Unimark International and African and Central Asian “war rugs.”