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African Art Museum Again Delays Opening of Site on Fifth Avenue	Museum for African Art	9/3/2010 4:38 PM
The museum said it had pushed back the planned opening of its new site from April to September or October 2011.
The Unfinished Tale of an Unlikely Hero	Pekar, Harvey	9/3/2010 4:49 PM
Harvey Pekar, the obsessive chronicler of everyday lives, was collaborating at the end of his life on a Web project whose fate in print remains uncertain.
Revisiting Max’s, Sanctuary for the Hip	Art	9/3/2010 9:19 AM
Two coming exhibitions shed new light on the glory days of Max’s Kansas City, an oasis for artists in the 1960s and ’70s.
Murakami Art in Thanksgiving Parade	Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade	9/3/2010 5:55 AM
Takashi Murakami's superflat characters about 40 feet long when their balloon incarnations are completed, and about three stories tall when filled with helium.
California Lawmakers Approve Bill on Stolen Art Claims	art & design	9/1/2010 8:59 AM
The legislation would make it easier for people to try to recover artworks from museums.
Sing Along With Yoko Ono!	Museum of Modern Art	8/31/2010 8:50 AM
ArtsBeat tries to provide a libretto.
Loving the Lowbrow (It Has Its Own Hall of Fame)	Art	9/3/2010 9:16 AM
“Bad art” — rescued from trash heaps and thrift shops — has become a genre in itself, with its own fans.
Art Review: Antics Aside, a Dalí of Constant Ambition	Art	9/3/2010 10:13 AM
An exhibition counters the notion that late work by Dalí is bad, and that most Dalí is late work.
Art Review: A Language Explorer Who Heard Echoes of Africa	Blacks	9/2/2010 10:45 PM
Lorenzo Dow Turner dug deep to find many African-inflected elements in the Gullah language and culture.
Art Review: Landscapes Framed by a Chevy	Photography	9/2/2010 10:45 PM
Lee Friedlander’s “America by Car,” opening Saturday at the Whitney Museum, consists of black-and-white photographs taken from inside cars.