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    Marc Quinn on 3-D Printing, Kate Moss and 'Cultural Hallucination'

    Artist Marc Quinn talks about sculpting celebrities, his little-known Asian influences and how he's incorporating 3-D printing into his work.

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    A Dissonant Side of Pop

    Another effort, however sketchy, to complicate assumptions about the 1960s.

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    The Orchestra Is a Woman

    On her new album, Petra Haden sings the instrumentals to 13 movie themes.

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    A Late Blooming

    Painted five years before his death, Odilon Redon's "Day" and "Night" represent the peak of the artist's legacy and are proof that old age can be fruitful.

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    In Strapped Spain, Buyers Are the Hot Item

    Some foreign patrons of Madrid's big international art fair, ARCOMadrid, are seeing an opportunity.

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    Hooked by Old Fishing Tackle

    Schools of serious collectors will go to the Florida International Tackle Show in Daytona Beach in early March.

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    Ideas Calendar: Jan. 26-Feb. 1

    On the agenda: A biologist talks about heat in Tempe, Ariz., Natasha Trethewey reads from her poetry in Washington and an author speaks about utopian scientists in Seattle.

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    Don't Miss: Jan. 26-Feb. 1

    In this column: French drawings in Washington, Jack Goldstein in New York and "Rembrandt's Century" in San Francisco.

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    Shadows of Former Selves

    Recent photography exhibitions of Hendrik Kerstens, Amy Stein and Stacy Arezou Mehrfar and Chim.

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    Getting to the Source of Open Secrets

    Filmmaker Alex Gibney on his documentary digging into story of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

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    The Manchurian Beyonce

    Here's the latest installment of Speakeasy's weekly web comic "NSFW."

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    Coachella 2013 to Feature Phoenix, Skrillex and Wu Tang Clan Reunion

    Blur, the Stone Roses, Phoenix and Red Hot Chili Peppers will headline the annual three-day Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival to be held at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, on consecutive weekends, April 12 through 14 and April 19 through 21.

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    Austen Power

    To mark the 200th anniversary of "Pride and Prejudice," novelists, moviemakers and scholars are releasing a flood of new homages to cash in on the bottomless appetite for all things Austen.

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    The Toughest Job in Show Business

    New host Seth MacFarlane and new producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron talk about the changes they're making to the Oscar broadcast Feb. 24.

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    Taking Aim at the Mainstream

    Indie-rock duo Tegan and Sara are trying to punch through a glass ceiling with an album of unabashed musical hooks intended to pull in a bigger audience.

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    Sundance: Filmmakers in a Frisky Mood

    Movies about a New Jersey pornography addict, an abused adult film star, a lesbian housewife-turned-prostitute and a British smut kingpin all generated strong offers from distributors at this year's Sundance Film Festival, proving once again—if it needed to be proven—that sex sells.

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    An Academy Seeks to Touch the Mideast With Music

    Acclaimed conductor Daniel Barenboim, architect Frank Gehry and Brown University will test whether music really is the universal language—by bringing together students from the volatile Middle East in an ambitious curriculum.

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    'Mona Lisa of the North' Arrives in U.S.

    Vermeer's "Girl With a Pearl Earring" opens Saturday at the de Young Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

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    A Broadway Flop Returns

    "Moose Murders," a play that was panned so severely it closed the same night it opened on Broadway in 1983, is getting a revival in New York.

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    Icons of the Road and Racetrack

    Eye-catching rare cars, motorbikes and even a famous plane will be up for sale in Paris next month, during the Retromobile classic and vintage motoring fair.

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    From Shutterbug to Filmmaker

    It may seem counterintuitive, but there's a growing belief that the best way to shoot video is on a camera intended for stills. A guide to the best DSLRs to turn any shutterbug into a filmmaker.

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    Manet's Different Strokes

    More than 50 paintings, plus pastels and photographs, make "Manet: Portraying Life" worth anyone's effort to see.

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    Islam at the Louvre

    The French museum lifts Islamic art to equal footing with works from its other departments.

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    'Peer' Pressure

    There can perhaps be no definitive performance of "Peer Gynt," but Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra have given us a vital and viable version for our generation.

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    The chance to play classical compositions on antique harpsichords creates a newfound appreciation for the music.

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    'Portlandia' Visits the Bay Area

    Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein discuss their satirical sketch-comedy TV show "Portlandia" and how the Northwest city's quirkiness compares with San Francisco's.

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    Roman Vishniac: Witness to Catastrophe

    Roman Vishniac's images of Jewish communities in Eastern Europe between 1935 and 1938 stay fixed in one's memory. Steven Spielberg relied on Vishniac's work to design "Schindler's List," filming scenes at sites made familiar by these photographs.

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    Pollinating MoMA

    Wolfgang Laib's "Pollen From Hazelnut," at the Museum of Modern Art through March 11, showcases his signature material: a blaze of yellow pollen.

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    What's On Around Europe

    The Weekend Journal's guide to the best exhibitions, concerts, theater, opera and events across Europe.

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    One Small Stumble, One Giant Step to Stardom

    Soprano Pretty Yende made her Metropolitan Opera debut last week in a role she'd never sung before. If that's not impressive enough, she took her bow after taking a spill on the stage.

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    Film: Welcome Fruits of a Late Harvest

    Spring and winter were pretty much a wasteland for big-screen entertainment, writes Joe Morgenstern, who says that not a single studio film of any consequence opened until Oct. 15.

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    Want to Tell Oprah All? Get in Line

    After Lance Armstrong's confession, Taylor Swift, Sylvester Stallone and PBS have a lot to say, according to Joe Queenan.

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