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Thursday, March 29, 2012 Aussie Art's Big Expansion The Contemporary Museum of Art Australia opens on Thursday, March 29 after an 18 month period of expansion. The $53 million redevelopment has transformed the space into an international beacon of creativity. Between this new museum and the upcoming Sydney Biennial, art lovers may well have to add the land down under to their list of art world hot spots. Shopper Finds Picasso In Thrift Store Egypt Artists Fight Back Through Art 'Eat More Kale' Artist Challenges Ruling Viscous Varnish BLOG POSTS David Finkle: First Nighter: Encores! Series' Pipe Dream Almost a Dream Come True Of course, when songs so ebullient and/or passionate are this good, who's going to complain? Although a number of the Encores! dust-offs have moved to Broadway, this one certainly won't. Never mind, since it has enough going for it right where it is. Julie Chae: The Cultural Landscape Architects: Yona Backer of Third Streaming In addition to presenting important art and innovative programming, Third Streaming serves as a place where Yona's friends, who include some of the smartest people in the artworld, can stop in, relax and think out loud. Claudia Ricci: Tibetan Monks Crisscross the U.S. Making Sand Mandalas The monks, who hail from the Ganden Jangtse Monastery in Mundgod, South India, are on a year-long tour through the U.S., spending time in communities that are interested in learning more about Buddhist philosophy and practices. Harvey Fierstein: Reimagining the Story of Newsies I wanted to make at least one cogent argument defending print media to a culture that doesn't seem to care if the daily paper disappears altogether. What could that argument be? Stacy Wolf: Mad Men and How to Succeed What is it that grabs a 21st-century audience about the early 1960s?

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