1.   Contemporary art has taken a huge leap forward in the last five or six years.

2.   But the arts finally took center stage three days ago, at the memorial service that rededicated the park.

3.   But when Akhenaten came to power as Amenhotep IV, succeeding his father Amenhotep III, a new art took hold of the ancient kingdom.

4.   Despite the erratic course her art took, her best work places her in the select and eclectic company of American solitaries and ecstatics.

5.   Even in Americus, a small, southwest Georgia town having its third First Night, the arts take center stage.

6.   He became increasingly hermit-like on these isolated shores, and his art took on deepening overtones.

7.   Last week, however, contemporary art took an unexpected upturn.

8.   The arts will take a while to reflect this insecurity, said Arthur Danto, a retired philosophy professor at Columbia University and art critic for The Nation.

9.   The arts will take a while to reflect.

10.   Vernacular art is taking its rightful place in elite collections.