From "Hors Satan" to "The Skin I Live In," ARTINFO offers a peek at seven highlights of the upcoming Cannes Film Festival.
Performing Arts: The Totally Subjective ARTINFO Guide to Cannes
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Art & Crime: Maori Tribesmen Reclaim Tattooed Warrior Head From French Museum
After entering the collection of Rouen's natural history museum in 1875, the preserved remains will now return to New Zealand.
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The Daily Checklist: Met Museum Anoints New Art-World Power Couple With Chairman Pick, Tim Burton to Kick Off LACMA Movie Retrospective, and More Must-Read Art News
Plus, the Seattle Art Museum's director has resigned.
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Postwar & Contemporary Art: Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Artists Reflect on the Last Days of Shanghai's Gritty Art Haven, 696 Weihai Lu
The once-thriving artist community is being driven out by the government's commercial interests, leaving its inhabitants searching for a new home.
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Performing Arts: From College Dropout to MoMA Bum-Out: How Kanye West's Blue Period Garden Show Was Rescued by Jay-Z
Kanye's performance for the annual "Party in the Garden" fundraiser was a chance for the pop star show off his tortured artist side (see video).
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Museums: In Bid to Save Itself, the Folk Art Museum Sells Its 53rd Street Building to MoMA
The Hail Mary real estate deal is a gambit to redeem years of poor planning, on the part of both institutions.
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Art & Crime: Met Museum Enters Legal Beef Over Its Mark Tansey Cow Painting, Unwittingly Sold by Gagosian
The institution has filed a complaint demanding that collector Robert Wylde return "The Innocent Eye Test," which he purchased through the gallery.
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Art & Crime: Robbery in the Forbidden City: A Lone Thief Makes Off With $1.5 Million in Treasure From Beijing's Palace Museum
Early Monday morning nine bejeweled objects on loan to the institution were stolen, marking the first theft at the historic site since 1987.
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Museums: Met to Take Over the Whitney's Brutalist Home, Following Secret Negotiations
The Marcel Breuer-designed building will become an outpost for the Met's modern and contemporary holdings, starting in 2015.
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The Daily Checklist: Lady Gaga Reveals She's Basically Picasso in Debut Art Column, Assessing Rumors of the Frieze Art Fair Coming to NYC, and More Must-Read Art News
Plus, Yale is putting all of its museum collections online.
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Postwar & Contemporary Art: Masterpiece Theater: The Premature Anointing of Christian Marclay's "The Clock"
How a critical consideration of the artists horologic montage was swamped by a high tide of sensibility and effusive praise.
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Art & Crime: Amateur Thief Nabbed in Extraordinary Multimillion-Dollar Forbidden City Heist
Shi Baikui is said to have pillaged the Palace of Abstinence, foiling 100 patrol dogs and 3,700 cameras.
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Performing Arts: See Messieurs Woody Allen and Robert De Niro Kick Off the Festivities at Cannes... But Where Was Carla Bruni?
The opening night glamorousness featured the premiere of Allen's "Midnight in Paris" as well as opulent gowns and impressive French-speaking.
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Galleries: How to Look at Ai Weiwei's Art: Lisson Gallery's Curator on the Dissident Artist's New London Survey
Greg Hilty tells ARTINFO UK the stories behind five of the works in the show, which opens at the end of the week.
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The Daily Checklist: Remembering Ai Weiwei's Years as an NYC Street Portraitist, Former Artforum Editor Tim Griffin to Lead the Kitchen, and More Must-Read Art News
Plus, XXX Jesus artist Enrique Chagoya will show at the Met.
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Art & Crime: Is It Ethical to Profit From a Serial Killer's Art? Behind the John Wayne Gacy Show Uproar
Art by "Killer Clown" murderer John Wayne Gacy on view at a Las Vegas gallery is making people uneasy even though sales were to benefit his victims' families.
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Performing Arts: The Art (and Bizarre Sociology) of the Eurovision Song Contest
A defense of the televised pop music showdown, which may have people in funny hats, but also provides unexpected insights into international relations.
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Design & Architecture: Preview the Glowing Designs From MAD's Fluorescent Ball Fundraiser
A bevy of downtown types have created objects to sell at the event, which will benefit children's education programming.
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The Daily Checklist: Marc Jacobs Plans Museum Exhibition, Why the High Line's Bilbao Effect Is Doomed, and More Must-Read Art News
Plus, MoMA will exhibit filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow's art and movie props.
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Art Market: Betting on BRIC Speculation, Brazil Launches Its First Art Investment Fund
With a capitalization of $24 million, the fund hopes to cash in on the burgeoning contemporary art market in Latin America's largest economy.
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