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John Baldessari's Palm Tree/Seascape hangs in the museum lobby of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in this undated handout. More than 120 works, including two huge canvases commissioned for the exhibition, are included in a retrospective of legendary American artist Baldessari at the museum. The show, "John "Baldessari: Pure Beauty" which opens on October 19, 2010, is the first for the Los Angeles-based artist in New York for 20 years and includes works dating back to 1962.

The Museum of Everything is an art gallery, but it “bears more similarities to a hairdresser than the Tate”, according to its director. Inside there are no signs of chopped hair or glossy magazines, but then nor are there any art works, at least not in the traditional sense. It showcases the talents of craftsmen who aren’t considered by the art world to be making cultural history. The Museum of Everything, London W1 is open until December 24. 

 

.Award to Artist who gives slums a human face. The TED prize for 2011 will go to J R, who plasters colossal photos in downtrodden neighborhoods around the world. In 2008 J R pasted giant portraits of women on houses in a dangerous area of Rio de Janeiro. He has created similar guerrilla art in Cambodia and Kenya and is at work on a project in Shanghai. http://www.nytimes.com