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<title>ARTINFO: Top 5</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:00:07 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Top 5:  The Best of Performa 09</title>
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<description>&lt;img src="http://www.artinfo.com//media/image/166885/00promo_Music-for-16-Futuri.jpg" align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;A sampling of the 2009 performance art biennial's massive offering of events.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/artinfo-top5/~4/XxBNOeExgqI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:36:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Top 5:  Art Above Ground</title>
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<description>&lt;img src="http://www.artinfo.com//media/image/164124/1_promo_1_4002493773_37f313.jpg" align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Some of New York’s most engaging art is on view above street level.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/artinfo-top5/~4/wd3qVnGAVyI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Top 5:  Fall Museum Shows in Paris</title>
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<description>&lt;img src="http://www.artinfo.com//media/image/161698/000promo_02.jpg" align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;From Old Master and Surrealist blockbusters to more unusual offerings devoted to Fellini and Pre-Columbian art from Mexico, there's something for everyone in the City of Light this season.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/artinfo-top5/~4/g4dJiIZIqRc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Top 5:  Fall’s Best Museum Offerings</title>
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<description>&lt;img src="http://www.artinfo.com//media/image/160173/1_Russell-The-Story-of-Art.jpg" align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;From the genre-bending to the groundbreaking (literally).&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/artinfo-top5/~4/cAOrL34N8mQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Top 5:  Rencontres Internationales in Madrid</title>
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<description>&lt;img src="http://www.artinfo.com//media/image/145900/1_08_5393_wegman_1.jpg" align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Five highlights from the traveling film and contemporary art festival, which will be in the Spanish capital April 16–25.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/artinfo-top5/~4/Nci1-wurD50" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Top 5:  Empty Exhibitions</title>
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<description>&lt;img src="http://www.artinfo.com//media/image/142300/1.jpg" align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;A new show at the Centre Pompidou highlights 50 years of exhibitions showing absolutely nothing.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/artinfo-top5/~4/q-jkvW3wQyg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:18:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Top 5:  2009 Preview: Paris Museum Shows</title>
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<description>&lt;img src="http://www.artinfo.com//media/image/133470/01_Parr_Moscow.jpg" align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;From the lurid contemporary world of Martin Parr to the arcane mysteries of ancient Egypt, five of the best shows opening this year in the French capital.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/artinfo-top5/~4/er0DMxNen80" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Top 5:  2009 Preview: London Museum Shows</title>
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<description>&lt;img src="http://www.artinfo.com//media/image/133420/01_Chetwynd_HermitosChildre.jpg" align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;It’s difficult to predict exactly what effect the economic crisis will have on the museum world, but there is still some great art to be seen in the British capital in 2009.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/artinfo-top5/~4/v4akZljRRU8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Top 5:  2009 Preview: New York Museum Shows</title>
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<description>&lt;img src="http://www.artinfo.com//media/image/133350/01_Bacon_JetofWater.jpg" align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;The most exciting prospect about the year ahead is that by its end we’ll be reflecting on a whole bunch of other shows that turned out to be at least as good as these.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/artinfo-top5/~4/Mlg4B_iiW9I" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Top 5:  2008 in Review: Art Crimes of the Year</title>
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<description>&lt;img src="http://www.artinfo.com//media/image/133149/01_Caravaggio_Christ.jpg" align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;It was quite a year for art crime, with a stolen Caravaggio that turned out to be a fake, gun-wielding thieves and under-the-table ransoms, and something of a real-life Thomas Crown affair.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/artinfo-top5/~4/bXqH3jSrmXg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:43:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Top 5:  2008 in Review: The Year in Architecture</title>
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<description>&lt;img src="http://www.artinfo.com//media/image/133101/01_CAS_Piano.jpg" align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;With the economy shot and architecture’s next wave of big-ticket projects stalling out, the best of 2008 might be the best we’ll see in a while.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/artinfo-top5/~4/rgQ_DhFODPo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Top 5:  2008 in Review: The Recession</title>
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<description>&lt;img src="http://www.artinfo.com//media/image/132956/Lichtenstein_HalfFace.jpg" align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;The fifth item in our top 5 trends of 2008 is so enormous in scope and importance that it spawned its own list. Here are the top 5 trends of the recession.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/artinfo-top5/~4/_QgLmIzpb_g" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 09:26:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Top 5:  2008 in Review: Trends of the Year</title>
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<description>&lt;img src="http://www.artinfo.com//media/image/132979/Fairey_Obama.jpg" align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;It was the year of Obama...but also the year of the recession. Here are the top 5 trends in art in 2008.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/artinfo-top5/~4/vTYzxEiSwcQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Top 5:  2008 in Review: People of the Year</title>
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<description>&lt;img src="http://www.artinfo.com//media/image/133019/DashaZhukova.jpg" align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;From the passing of a legendary artist to the retirement of a museum giant to the appearance of a new art-world "it girl," certain people had all the headlines this year.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/artinfo-top5/~4/8WT1LsPSfQY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 07:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Top 5:  2008 in Review: Stories of the Year</title>
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<description>&lt;img src="http://www.artinfo.com//media/image/132997/01_Hirst_GoldenCalf_Lot13.jpg" align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;The top 5 (actually, 6) stories in an exciting and turbulent year.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/artinfo-top5/~4/r7WXWsveTvc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:37:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Top 5:  Painting Exhibitions in France</title>
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<description>&lt;img src="http://www.artinfo.com//media/image/129322/01_Mantegna_Adoration.jpg" align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;A handful of top-notch shows in and around Paris offers a survey of painting from the early Renaissance to the postwar era.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/artinfo-top5/~4/2FpxbPiTlUw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Top 5:  New York Museum Shows to Restore Your Faith</title>
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<description>&lt;img src="http://www.artinfo.com//media/image/124795/1-Duccio_Madonna-and-Child_.jpg" align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;On the eve of the November sales, five museum shows remind us that there’s more to art than the art market.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/artinfo-top5/~4/fTee0mxvX-4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:02:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Top 5:  Paris White Night</title>
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<description>&lt;img src="http://www.artinfo.com//media/image/116422/01_TonyOursler_Horizon.jpg" align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;ARTINFO chooses the top five visual art attractions for your night out in the city of light.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/artinfo-top5/~4/K_pcPHJiHt8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Top 5:  At the Venice Biennale: Building Beyond Buildings</title>
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<description>&lt;img src="http://www.artinfo.com//media/image/112826/DigestableStream_PhilipeRah.jpg" align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Architects go conceptual.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/artinfo-top5/~4/G0J-yTcQ11U" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:46:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Top 5:  Fall Museum Shows in New York</title>
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<description>&lt;img src="http://www.artinfo.com//media/image/110122/01_PipilottiRist_Tulips.jpg" align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Rist, Rondinone, Ramirez, and revolution.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/artinfo-top5/~4/4Ls2eUykQcA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Top 5:  David Rago on American Arts &amp; Crafts Collections</title>
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<description>&lt;img src="http://www.artinfo.com//media/image/106374/01_Wright_LittleHouse.jpg" align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Five places to see the best works of the short-lived movement.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/artinfo-top5/~4/BmeZiPn4MMM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Top 5:  Museums in (Greater) China</title>
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<description>&lt;img src="http://www.artinfo.com//media/image/105878/Yongliang_Eclipse.jpg" align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Gold-medal offerings outside the stadiums.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/artinfo-top5/~4/75NZHtfik7A" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Top 5:  Single-Artist European Museums</title>
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<description>&lt;img src="http://www.artinfo.com//media/image/106010/PaulKlee_Museum.jpg" align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;All found in holiday-worthy destinations, these specialized institutions provide vital insights into the artists they celebrate.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/artinfo-top5/~4/a5K5-fjts3M" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Top 5:  Outdoor Art in London</title>
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<description>&lt;img src="http://www.artinfo.com//media/image/103140/01_Weiwei_Pillars.jpg" align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Season-friendly art outings in the city and beyond.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/artinfo-top5/~4/vMjVX_eki9Q" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Top 5:  Red, White, and Bored?</title>
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<description>&lt;img src="http://www.artinfo.com//media/image/101675/01_Spitzer_StillLife.jpg" align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Go see some art out of town. Five easy excursions from New York.&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/artinfo-top5/~4/5IfDVXFXLhs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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