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Performing Arts: The Totally Subjective ARTINFO Guide to Cannes

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 From "Hors Satan" to "The Skin I Live In," ARTINFO offers a peek at seven highlights of the upcoming Cannes Film Festival.

Art & Crime: Maori Tribesmen Reclaim Tattooed Warrior Head From French Museum

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 After entering the collection of Rouen's natural history museum in 1875, the preserved remains will now return to New Zealand.

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

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 Plus, the Seattle Art Museum's director has resigned.

Postwar & Contemporary Art: Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Artists Reflect on the Last Days of Shanghai's Gritty Art Haven, 696 Weihai Lu

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 The once-thriving artist community is being driven out by the government's commercial interests, leaving its inhabitants searching for a new home.

Performing Arts: From College Dropout to MoMA Bum-Out: How Kanye West's Blue Period Garden Show Was Rescued by Jay-Z

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 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).

Museums: In Bid to Save Itself, the Folk Art Museum Sells Its 53rd Street Building to MoMA

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 The Hail Mary real estate deal is a gambit to redeem years of poor planning, on the part of both institutions.

Art & Crime: Met Museum Enters Legal Beef Over Its Mark Tansey Cow Painting, Unwittingly Sold by Gagosian

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 The institution has filed a complaint demanding that collector Robert Wylde return "The Innocent Eye Test," which he purchased through the gallery.

Art & Crime: Robbery in the Forbidden City: A Lone Thief Makes Off With $1.5 Million in Treasure From Beijing's Palace Museum

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 Early Monday morning nine bejeweled objects on loan to the institution were stolen, marking the first theft at the historic site since 1987.

Museums: Met to Take Over the Whitney's Brutalist Home, Following Secret Negotiations

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 The Marcel Breuer-designed building will become an outpost for the Met's modern and contemporary holdings, starting in 2015.

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

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 Plus, Yale is putting all of its museum collections online.

Postwar & Contemporary Art: Masterpiece Theater: The Premature Anointing of Christian Marclay's "The Clock"

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 How a critical consideration of the artist’s horologic montage was swamped by a high tide of sensibility and effusive praise.

Art & Crime: Amateur Thief Nabbed in Extraordinary Multimillion-Dollar Forbidden City Heist

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 Shi Baikui is said to have pillaged the Palace of Abstinence, foiling 100 patrol dogs and 3,700 cameras.

Performing Arts: See Messieurs Woody Allen and Robert De Niro Kick Off the Festivities at Cannes... But Where Was Carla Bruni?

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 The opening night glamorousness featured the premiere of Allen's "Midnight in Paris" as well as opulent gowns and impressive French-speaking.

Galleries: How to Look at Ai Weiwei's Art: Lisson Gallery's Curator on the Dissident Artist's New London Survey

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 Greg Hilty tells ARTINFO UK the stories behind five of the works in the show, which opens at the end of the week.

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

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 Plus, XXX Jesus artist Enrique Chagoya will show at the Met.

Art & Crime: Is It Ethical to Profit From a Serial Killer's Art? Behind the John Wayne Gacy Show Uproar

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 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.

Performing Arts: The Art (and Bizarre Sociology) of the Eurovision Song Contest

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 A defense of the televised pop music showdown, which may have people in funny hats, but also provides unexpected insights into international relations.

Design & Architecture: Preview the Glowing Designs From MAD's Fluorescent Ball Fundraiser

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 A bevy of downtown types have created objects to sell at the event, which will benefit children's education programming.

The Daily Checklist: Marc Jacobs Plans Museum Exhibition, Why the High Line's Bilbao Effect Is Doomed, and More Must-Read Art News

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 Plus, MoMA will exhibit filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow's art and movie props.

Art Market: Betting on BRIC Speculation, Brazil Launches Its First Art Investment Fund

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 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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