A roundup of the latest developments on day 12 of the artist and activist's detention.
Art and Politics: Amid Chinese Reports That Ai Weiwei Has Confessed Guilt, a Global Protest Is Planned and Blackjack Players Remember Their "Guru"
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Fashion: Such a Fancy Doublet!: See the Dreamy Medieval Styles of the Morgan Library's "Illuminating Fashion" Show
Through manuscripts, the exhibition looks a changing styles from the "Fashion Revolution" to the Renaissance.
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The Daily Checklist: Performa 11 Commissions Announced, Kate Middleton Portrayed on Miraculous Jelly Bean, and More Must-Read Art News
Plus, the finalists for Cannes's Palme d'Or revealed.
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Street Art: To Mark Opening of "Art in the Street," MOCA Director Jeffrey Deitch Pledges to Eradicate Actual Street Art
As street artworks pop up around the museum to coincide with the show, the LAPD vows to arrest offenders and Deitch offers to clean up the neighborhood.
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Performing Arts: In the Wake of Financial Scandal, Salzburg Easter Festival Rises Again
Despite an embezzlement controversy, the elite classical music festival will begin as planned tomorrow.
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Design & Architecture: SOFA Design Fair Returns to New York With a Mixed Bag of Wares, Some Dazzling
The bazaar is taking place at the Park Avenue Armory this weekend, offering pleasures for those who know how to find them
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Design & Architecture: Mentally Ill Arsonist Suspected in Disastrous Blaze at Gaudi's Sagrada Familia
A man was arrested and hundreds of tourists were evacuated from the site.
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The Daily Checklist: Oscar-Nominated "Restrepo" Director Killed in Libya, Warhol's Last Self-Portrait Heads to Auction at Christie's, and More Must-Read Art News
Plus, the Yves Saint Laurent show is heading to the U.S., but not where you'd expect.
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Art & Crime: The Evilest Art Dealers in the World?: A Digest of the Wildenstein Allegations
ARTINFO probes the New York Times exposé's litany of findings, from Nazi-loot charges to shocking betrayals within the family.
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Street Art: Space Invader Becomes First Artist Arrested for MOCA's "Art in the Streets"
The French artist was reportedly captured near L.A. MOCA with a bucket of grout.
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Museums: National Latino Museum Faces Obstacles in D.C., Despite Eva Longoria's Advocacy
While a commission will soon present Congress with plans for the latest entrant to the National Mall, the Smithsonian isn't quite so eager to welcome it.
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Performing Arts: Meet Gangpol & Mit a French Apocalyptic Cartoon Band... for Kids!
ARTINFO spoke to artists Sylvain Quément and Guillaume Gastagné about their new album, "1000 Softcore Tourist People Club."
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The Daily Checklist: Kanye West to Take Over MoMA's Garden, Gagosian Gallery Snaps Up Richard Avedon Foundation, and More Must-Read Art News
Plus, Martin Roth is chosen as the V&A's new director.
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Art and Politics: In Wake of Ai Weiwei's Arrest, Tiananmen Square's Confucius Statue Disappears As Friendly Face of Chinese Culture
Authorities won't say where the sculpture has gone, but its vanishing is taken as a sign of a spiral towards hard-line ideology.
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Art and Technology: Assessing Life + Times, Jay-Z's New Art and Culture Web Site
The site touts art by Lee Quinones, architect Nigel Coates, and even Glenn O'Brien's collecting advice.
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Performing Arts: Let's Keep This Brief: A Guide to the Tribeca Film Festival's Best Short Films
A survey of the event's smaller gems, from "The Ride" to "Incident in New Baghdad."
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Postwar & Contemporary Art: From Kippenberger's Frog to "Piss Christ," the 10 Least Appropriate Easter Artworks
On the occasion of the international holiday, ARTINFO rounds up some historic pieces that the iconoclastic zealots in France wouldn't like one bit.
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Design & Architecture: Berlin's Baffling New Seesaw of a Monument to German Reunification
The interactive "Citizens in Motion" is an homage to collective action, but some worry that it might be a hazard.
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Museums: Carlos Slim's Xanadu?: Reactions to the World's Richest Man's Overweening New Museo Soumaya
"Eclectic does not begin to describe" the taste in evidence at the mega-billionaire's Mexico City institution.
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The Daily Checklist: Eli Broad Bares Soul (Not Quite) on "60 Minutes," Warhol's Legendary Townhouse Hits the Market, and More Must-Read Art News
Plus, the Times takes two very different views of Jeffrey Deitch and his "Art in the Streets."
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