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The Daily Checklist: World Museums Rally to Save Egypt's Treasures, Stephen Colbert to Auction His Greatest Masterpiece, and More Must-Read Art News

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 Plus, the Drawing Center plans an easy expansion.

Art & Crime: Antisocial Media: Italian Art Duo Hijacks 1 Million Facebook Profiles for Subversive Dating Site

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 "Face to Facebook," by Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico, created a sensation at Berlin's Transmediale Festival — and irked Zuckerberg.

People: Triumph of the Underdog: Jeff Koons Bows Out of His Barking-Mad Balloon Dog Dispute

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 The blue-chip artist has conceded that he does not own all inflatable pups, so San Francisco's Park Life gallery can continue vending its pooch bookends.

Art & Crime: Did Art Dealer Guy Wildenstein Gather a Multimillion-Dollar Cache of Stolen Art?

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 An investigation into hot paintings found in the Wildenstein Institute follows another suit, concerning the concealment of the value of his late father's fortune.

Postwar & Contemporary Art: What Artists Think About When They Think About Football

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 In time for the Super Bowl, ARTINFO looked at six approaches contemporary artists have taken to the intense all-American sport in their work. Surprise! There's some homoeroticism.

Old Masters & Antiquities: On the Trail of Artifact Plunderers, Archeologists May Have Uncovered the Prophet Zehariah's Tomb

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 These stunning mosaics may have covered Zechariah's final resting place.

The Daily Checklist: Green Bay Packers Win a Renoir, Cooper Union Names a New President, and More Must-Read Art News

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 Plus, Francesco Vezzoli on his new religion-and-celebrity mash-up at Gagosian.

Arts Policy: What Governor Cuomo's Butchered Budget Means for New York's Arts

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 The $5.6 million decrease in funding comes as a blow to culture groups already straitened by the economy.

Performing Arts: "The Revolution of Light": Egyptian Protesters Create a Defiant Festival of the Arts in Tahrir Square

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 Poetry and even some makeshift interactive art fortifies the occupation in Tahrir Square, but artist Ahmed Bassiouni is among the casualities of clashes with the government.

Museums: Feeling Lucky? Or Let Down?: A Roundup of Art Critics on Google's New Mega-Museum

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 What various newspapers, magazines, and blogs have to say about the digital archive of more than 1,000 artworks from 17 international institutions.

Art Market: Is the Art Market Entering a New Age of Volatility?

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 Some analysts fear rampant speculation now that art has become a hot investment.

Museums: After Planning an Exhibition on the Mob, a Naples Museum Director Seeks Asylum in Germany

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 Harassed by the Camorra, Antonio Manfredi — the latest museum official to take on Italy's organized crime — wants to move his collection up north.

The Daily Checklist: Robert Mapplethorpe Archive Goes to L.A., Why the Google Art Project Doesn't Replace Museums, and More Must-Read Art News

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 Plus, the short, awful life of J. Paul Getty III.

Arts Policy: European Corporation Enters Battle Over 9/11 Sculpture's Fate

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 The AXA insurance giant is the rightful owner of the Koenig Sphere, the display of which has pitted 9/11 family members against the Port Authority.

Design & Architecture: "Philistines!": Frank Gehry and Jean Nouvel Lash Out at Parisians After a Museum Is Delayed

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 The Gehry-designed "cloud of glass" museum for billionaire collector Bernard Arnault has been grounded by a French judge in the mid-construction.

Design & Architecture: Does L.A. Care If the Watts Towers Are Saved?

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 While LACMA has stepped up to do fundraising for the massive folk art monument, who stands to gain, besides the devoted enclave of Watts lovers?

Arts Policy: Arts Cuts Drive French Museum Directors to Pen a J'Accuse

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 The General Association of Curators of French Public Collections have issued a lengthy report defending their profession against "extreme free-market logic."

The Daily Checklist: Rihanna Rips Off David LaChapelle, Morgan Spurlock Copies the Art Guys, and More Must-Read News (That We Took From Other Sources)

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 Plus, Nazi-loot restitution champion Maria V. Altmann dies at 94.

Design & Architecture: Diller Scofidio + Renfro Open a $40 Million Arts Lab at Brown

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 The Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts features galleries, studios, performance spaces, and an interior that is split in half by a glass wall.

Old Masters & Antiquities: Egyptian Antiquities Boss to Protesters: The Sphinx Says Go Home

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 Amid the uprising, Zahi Hawass has secured the return of antiquities from the Metropolitan Museum, and is disputing accounts of chaos at the nation's museums.
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