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‘Full Metal Jousting’ Gear. No, It’s Not Tinfoil.	Television	2/8/2012 7:58 PM
A skeptic finds out that wearing a 60-pound suit of armor like the kind used on the History channel’s new series “Full Metal Jousting” is not for the faint of ... anything.
Architecture: A Proposal for Penn Station and Madison Square Garden	Architecture	2/8/2012 6:25 PM
Remedying the calamity that is Penn Station by moving Madison Square Garden to the Javits Center site is a way to bring back light and airy glory to New York’s transportation hub.
ArtsBeat: Air-Cleansing Nylon Star Wins MoMA PS 1 Courtyard Competition	Bergdoll, Barry	2/8/2012 3:37 PM
An architectural installation meant to clean the air to a degree equivalent to removing 260 cars from the road has been selected as the winning design in a competition to transform the courtyard of MoMA P.S. 1 in Long Island City, Queens, this summer.
ArtsBeat: Ai Weiwei and Herzog & de Meuron to Design Serpentine Pavilion	Ai Weiwei	2/7/2012 2:36 PM
The Serpentine Gallery in London announced on Tuesday that the architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron and the artist Ai Weiwei -- the brain trust behind the Beijing National Stadium, aka the Bird's Nest -- will collaborate again to create the 2012 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion.
ArtsBeat: Houston Museum Chooses Architect for Expansion Plan	Art	2/7/2012 10:41 AM
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is planning a new building on a two-acre site.
OLIN Designs Metropolitan Museum a New Fifth Avenue Plaza	Metropolitan Museum of Art	2/8/2012 2:07 PM
An ambitious plan is in the works to transform the plaza in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art into a more efficient and pleasing space.
Wine Steward Admits to New York Art Theft	Art	2/8/2012 2:20 AM
The thief, Mark Lugo, took artworks off hotel and gallery walls on both coasts.
Art Review: VIP Art Fair 2.0 Is Virtual, Modeled on the Traditional	Art	2/7/2012 1:57 PM
Art Fair 2.0 takes a second stab at the virtual exhibition (and the Web site runs more smoothly this year).
High Ambitions for My Image Studios in Harlem	Culture (Arts)	2/7/2012 1:47 PM
Developers are proceeding with plans for My Image Studios, a “living room” of black and Latino-flavored arts and culture in Harlem.
Antoni Tàpies, Spanish Abstract Painter, Dies at 88	Tapies, Antoni	2/8/2012 4:23 PM
Mr. Tàpies grounded his work in the brute reality of the Spanish street and in the turbulent political dramas of his youth in Catalonia.