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Museum Review: Good Guys, Bad Guys and Spies, All Wrapped in ‘Edutainment’	Museums	7/4/2008 10:20 PM
The International Spy Museum and the National Museum of Crime & Punishment in Washington promise the latest forms of “edutainment,” which generously blur boundaries between fact and fancy.
For an Artist at Full Speed, Everything Else Just Takes a Back Seat	Art	7/4/2008 9:02 PM
“The Art of Failure: Chuck Connelly Not For Sale” chronicles Mr. Connelly’s fast rise and long career slide.
Art Review \| 'Radiance From the Rain Forest': Objects From a Long-Vanished Peru, Parading All Their Magnificent Plumage	Art	7/4/2008 9:03 PM
This show supplements the Met’s rarely displayed holdings of featherwork with examples borrowed from public and private collections.
China’s Legacy: Let a Million Museums Bloom	Art	7/4/2008 8:07 AM
Most art is an unsettled category in China and museums have complicated uses.
Art Review: Storm-Tossed Visionary of Light	Art	7/4/2008 5:11 AM
The oil and watercolor paintings in the Metropolitan Museum’s “J. M. W. Turner” swing between overblown and moving, inspired and mechanical.
Design Review \| Buckminster Fuller: Fixing Earth One Dome at a Time	Art	7/4/2008 12:06 AM
A timely new exhibition of works by Buckminster Fuller at the Whitney Museum is likely to stir waves of nostalgia for those who miss the architecture of the cold war.
Along the Hudson, Searching for Old	Antiques	7/3/2008 9:19 PM
For country-weekend antiquing, the mid-Hudson Valley offers excellent prices, great scenery and, in terms of merchandise, a little of almost everything.
Art Review: Some Shows for Escape, Some for Introspection	Art	7/4/2008 6:47 AM
When the dog days arrive, many New York art galleries turn their exhibition spaces into pluralistic laboratories to test new talent and experiment with cool ideas.
Art Review: 3,344 People May Not Know Art but Know What They Like	Art	7/3/2008 8:58 PM
The Brooklyn Museum’s “Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition” invites its viewers to consider whether the crowd is better than the individual at picking quality photography.
Art in Review	Art	7/3/2008 9:01 PM
Tetsumi Kudo at Andrea Rosen, Hilary Harnischfeger at Never Work, Cliff Evans at Luxe Gallery and more.