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New Delay in Opening Museum for African Art	Museums	5/16/2012 1:28 PM
The Museum for African Art has been forced to delay the opening of its new location in East Harlem because it has not raised enough money.
Critic’s Notebook: Alicia Hall Moran and Jason Moran in ‘Bleed,’ at Whitney	Music	5/16/2012 1:43 PM
Alicia Hall Moran and Jason Moran collaborated in “Bleed,” a limited residency at the Whitney Biennial last week.
Critic’s Notebook: Video as Art in Lepage’s ‘Ring’ at the Metropolitan Opera	Art	5/15/2012 12:03 PM
Video elements add an illuminating dimension to Robert Lepage’s production of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle at the Metropolitan Opera.
Latin Pop Group Maná Draws Adoring Crowds	Music	5/16/2012 1:34 PM
Maná, a rock group that sings only in Spanish, has been attracting fans, both recent immigrants and others, in the United States for decades.
String Cheese Incident Takes On Ticketmaster	Music	5/16/2012 1:30 PM
The band String Cheese Incident is making a symbolic end run to protest what it considers high ticket-sales fees.
Arts & Leisure: Steve Kazee of ‘Once’ Knows About Pain	Theater	5/16/2012 9:44 AM
Steve Kazee, whose Broadway role in “Once” is that of a man who is coming off a breakup and whose mother has died, is coming off breakup and lost his mother last month.
Dance Review: American Ballet Theater’s Opening-Night Gala	Dancing	5/16/2012 12:40 PM
On Monday evening the American Ballet Theater offered exhilarating sections amid a largely predictable series of bedroom pas de deux and fouetté turns.
ArtsBeat: Gehry Changes Design for Eisenhower Memorial	Eisenhower, Dwight David	5/16/2012 12:32 PM
The changes came in response to concerns that a youthful statue failed to represent the former president’s significant achievements.
ArtsBeat: Knoedler Seeks to Have Lawsuit Over Disputed Painting Dismissed	Art	5/15/2012 2:05 PM
A collector says he was sold a fake Jackson Pollock painting.
ArtsBeat: Painting Made With Blood of Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty Is Sold	Amy Winehouse	5/14/2012 10:07 AM
"Ladylike," a painting for which Amy Winehouse contributed a minimalist self-portrait and which uses an artistic technique Pete Doherty calls "arterial splatter," yielded only about half the price it was expected to draw at an auction in London.