Plus, a $32 Million Renaissance sculpture was found in a European castle.
The Daily Checklist: Obama Tours the Queen's Wild West Art Collection, Tom Colicchio Plans Fancy High Line Beer Garden, and More Must-Read Art News
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Postwar & Contemporary Art: "If Your Doctor Says It's Art, Run": How Alexander Melamid's Art Healing Ministry Cleared Up My Skin With Seurat
The Russian artist's latest project is a SoHo clinic that offers to treat your physiological and psychological ills with the greatest hits of art history.
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The Daily Checklist: Snohetta Reveals Plans for SFMOMA Expansion, Notorious Alaskan Street Artist Meno Arrested, and More Must-Read Art News
Plus, LACMA has been swept up in the mystical Russian Chabad feud.
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Performing Arts: From Bonnaroo to Bang on a Can, ARTINFO's Guide to the Hottest Summer Music Festivals
Hippies, rappers, Canadians, gloom-rock, and Björk the concert season's got something for everyone.
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Arts Policy: Venice's Plague of Garish Ads on Historic Monuments Comes to Paris
While critics charge that advertising is taking over cultural heritage sites, two European cities seek to impose limits.
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Design & Architecture: 2011 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards Honor Poets of the Everyday
The institution recognized achievements in design, from fashion to architecture to digital technology.
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Museums: EBay Founder Gives the Louvre $3 Million to Promote Persian Art
Pierre Omidyar's gift is the latest fundraising coup for the French institution (but look out for its upcoming Janet Jackson concert).
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The Daily Checklist: Scholars Tussle Over a Fighter Pilot's "Michelangelo," Surrealist Artist Leonora Carrington Dies, and More Must-Read Art News
Plus, MFA Houston has announced the architect shortlist for its expansion.
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Performing Arts: In the Future, Will Pop Music Remix Itself?
A raft of new iPhone Apps have music fans wondering if they are a game changer, or just a cool party trick?
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The Daily Checklist: The Venice Biennale's Money-Making Schemes, New Life for the Met's Alexander McQueen Show, and More Must-Read Art News
Plus, Chinese transparency activists demand info on the Forbidden City's inner workings.
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Art & Crime: A Wild and Crazy Art Scam: Steve Martin Among Those Duped by Germany's Largest-Ever Forgery Ring
Auction houses, experts, and museums are also said to have been taken by the canny fakes.
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Performing Arts: Black Metal's White Knight: Liturgy Frontman Hunter Hunt-Hendrix Explains His Transcendental Take on the Notorious Rock Genre
The singer and guitarist talks about Beuys, Zizek, and why we will never, ever escape Romanticism.
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The Daily Checklist: "Big Bambú" Towers Over the Competition in Venice, a Brazen Art Heist in Chelsea, and More Must-Read Art News
Plus, High Line curator Lauren Ross quits New York for Oklahoma.
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Arts Policy: Local Curmudgeons and Righteous Royalists Mount Fresh Assault on Contemporary Art at Versailles
Even the abstract sculptures of French artist Bernar Venet have raised the hackles of the militantly classicist critics.
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Arts Policy: Kansas Governor Eliminates the State's Arts Agency in Scorched Earth Budget-Cutting Campaign, Claiming to Set an Example for the Nation
Sam Brownback makes Kansas the first state to completely end art funding, something he calls "a good trend." Public broadcasting is next.
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The Daily Checklist: Pro-Ai Weiwei Photo Show Shut Down in Beijing, Artist Alleges Corruption at South Africa's Venice Pavilion, and More Must-Read Art News
Plus, the crowds are flocking to Florida's Navy SEAL Museum.
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Performing Arts: The Women Who Changed the Face of Art: Thoughts on the Documentary "!Women Art Revolution (!W.A.R.)"
Lynn Hershman Leesons piece of retrospective agitprop is composed of footage from over four decades spent interviewing the greats of the feminist art movement.
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Museums: On the Metropolitan Museum's New $25 "Suggested" Admission Fee, and Heartbreak
Of course, you don't have to pay, but staff members will bore into your soul with their laser-beam eyes if you don't.
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Impressionist & Modern Art: Surrealist Claude Cahun's Radical, Gender-Bending Art Gets Its Due in Paris Show
Way before Cindy Sherman, this French artist created daring photo personae.
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The Daily Checklist: Roman Abramovich's Mega-Yacht Angers Venetians, Museum Spotlights the Dark Surrealist Art of Jack Kevorkian, and More Must-Read Art News
Plus, art patron and centenarian Rachel Mellon is implicated in the John Edwards sex cover-up.
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