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Art and Politics: Ai Weiwei's Wife Finally Allowed Visit, While the Artist's Dealers Weigh Art HK Participation

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 Thankfully, earlier reports of the artist's torture appear to have been unfounded, according to Ai's wife.

Art and Technology: From New Museum to Nerd Museum: Assessing the Arty Inventions Hatched at AOL's 7 on 7 Conference

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 Not every art and science pairing was a success at the day-long Rhizome-fronted event, but that's part of the beauty of experimentation.

Art and Politics: The Art of Diplomacy?: On Robert Storr's New Vanilla Installation for the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations

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 The Yale art school dean's curation of the U.S. Mission's art collection presents a surprisingly sanitized view of American artistic endeavor.

The Daily Checklist: Wolfgang Tillmans Makes Lady Gaga Look Like a Normal Person, Mona Lisa's Crypt Discovered in Florence Convent, and More Must-Read Art News

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 Plus, Christian Marclay's "Clock" Changes time zones.

Photography: Is This Cat a Great Photographer?: Meet Cooper, the Seattle Art Scene's Feline Phenomenon

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 With a digital camera strapped to his collar, our hero stalks through town, snapping pictures and cultivating a massive following.

Art Market: First the Guillotine, Now the Auction Block: Furor Erupts in France Over Sotheby's Sale of Robespierre's Revolutionary Papers

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 French historians are raising the alarm that these invaluable documents could leave French soil.

Performing Arts: Cannes 2011 Update: Iran Cracks Down on Filmmakers, Scandalous Italians Abound, and the Second Coming of Kubrick?

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 With nearly a week left in the international film festival's run, the news just isn't stopping.

Design & Architecture: Folk You!: A Blow-by-Blow of the Critical Brawl Over the Folk Art Museum's Benighted Building

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 A guide to the raging debate over whether the museum's Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects-designed building was the source of the institution's downfall.

The Daily Checklist: Nazi Art Controversy Chills Russia's Winter Olympics, the Glitch in Bill Gates's National Portrait Gallery Painting, and More Must-Read Art News

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 Plus, the NEA gave out $88 million in grants.

Design & Architecture: Our Hanging Gardens: A Knocked-Out Preview of the High Line's Second Phase

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 The gala party celebrating the completion of the second leg provided an early glimpse of the elevated park's extraordinary addition, to debut in June.

Museums: Can a Miracle Sex and Acne Drug Keep the Barnes Foundation in Merion?

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 The medicine with which Albert C. Barnes made his fortune will be sold once again, with a portion of proceeds going to an anti-relocation campaign.

Arts Policy: Art Versus Bighorn Sheep: New Obstacles to Christo's "Over the River" Project in Colorado Rear Their Heads

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 Following the Colorado Wildlife Commission's unanimous nay vote on the project, ARTINFO takes stock of some locals' complaints.

People: Nazi or Not So Much?: Behind the Lars Van Trier Controversy at Cannes

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 In an uncomfortable press conference, the provocative filmmaker rambled on about his warm feelings for Hitler.

Postwar & Contemporary Art: Finding Order in Miro's Surrealist Chaos: A Tate Curator on 5 Key Paintings in the Artist's New Survey

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 Marko Daniel charts the great painter's development, from his seminal "The Farm" to late work that captures the spirit of May 68.

The Daily Checklist: Anna Wintour Asked to Help Run the Met, Tania Bruguera Slums as an Illegal Immigrant for Art, and More Must-Read Art News

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 Plus, see the the winners of Britain's RIBA architecture prize.

Art Market: The Frieze Art Fair Is Indeed Coming to New York, With Mayor Bloomberg's Blessing

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 The admired London fair has confirmed longstanding rumors that it will open a satellite in the city, and said it is launching a new event in London, too.

Art and Politics: The Met Freezes Dior Loan to Pushkin Museum as Diplomatic Feud Between U.S. and Russia Escalates

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 Moscow's overbearing reaction to a dispute of an archive of Hasidic papers is affecting the museum world at its highest levels.

Postwar & Contemporary Art: Artist Anahita Ramzi on Her Emdash Award-Winning Iranian Protest Project

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 The recipient of the Frieze Art Fair's new prize will create a video version of Trisha Brown's "Roof Piece" addressing the uprising following Iran's 2009 presidential election.

Museums: Frick Collection Names Ian Wardropper as Its New Director, Replacing Anne Poulet

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 The scholar will step into the role this October when the Upper East Side museum's first woman director steps down.

Performing Arts: What Is "The Artist," and Why Is It Such a Hit at Cannes?

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 Michel Hazanavicius's film has been a surprise breakout success at the festival.
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