Minutes after speaking to ARTINFO, Governor Sam Brownback replaced Schwaller with the head of his own new private-sector arts foundation.
Arts Policy: Can the Arts Be Saved in Kansas?: A Q&A With Henry Schwaller, Who Was Head of the State's Recently Liquidated Arts Commission
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Performing Arts: Bono Faces Artistic Counter-Performance at Glastonbury in Protest of U2's Tax Dodging
At the June 24 show, Art Uncut plans to hold an illuminated "Bono Pay Up!" sign and pass a giant wad of cash through the crowd.
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Performing Arts: High-Society Homicide: Christopher Mason, Host of the New TV Show "Behind Mansion Walls," on the Fine Art... of Murder
From poisoned marmalade to the cross-dressing Wall Street strangler, Mason explores and explains the crimes of the rich and powerful.
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Design & Architecture: Hong Kong Prison to Be Rehabilitated as Lavish $231 Million Art Complex, With a Hand From Herzog & de Meuron
The Central Police Station Project is just one of the city's exciting new initiatives, which also include the giant new M+ Museum.
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Performing Arts: See Artist Nader Sadek's Genre-Blurring Sculpture for His New Heavy Metal Album, "In the Flesh"
The album itself fuses conceptual meditations on the oil economy with guest appearances by musicians from Cattle Decapitation and Behold... The Arctopus.
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Museums: Paris's Troubled Palais de Tokyo Taps Jean de Loisy to Take Over as President
The curator of the Israeli pavilion at the current Venice Biennale has been appointed to the post.
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The Daily Checklist: "Antiques Roadshow" Unearths a $500,000 Norman Rockwell, Nicolai Ouroussoff Departs the Times, and More Must-Read Art News
Plus, four-year-old artist Aelita Andre's blockbuster Chelsea gallery show.
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Museums: The Barnes Foundation Declares That It Will Live On in Merion (But the Art Is Going to Philly)
The Barnes Foundation has pledged $300,000 to preserving the historic site and turning it into a horticultural attraction.
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Postwar & Contemporary Art: Biennale Bloopers: ARTINFO's List of 7 Spectacular Snafus From Last Week's Venetian Festivities
From stranded athletes to a guest tackled during the Golden Lion ceremony, not everything at the glitzy event went off without a hitch.
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People: Disgraced Congressman Anthony Weiner, Raging Hypocrite, Awful Art Critic
Remember Weiner's attack on "The Triumph of Civic Virtue" because it was disrespectful to women?
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Impressionist & Modern Art: Is This Painting of a Young Girl One of Picasso's Earliest Works?
Catalan researchers believe that they have unearthed a lost portrait by Picasso of his beloved deceased sister.
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The Daily Checklist: Spain's Spacey New Balenciaga Museum Debuts, Saatchi Honors Seven-Year-Old Painting Sensation, and More Must-Read Art News
Plus, the Getty Research Institute acquires the archives of legendary curator Harald Szeemann.
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Postwar & Contemporary Art: The Great Animal Artists of Our Time: From Thai Elephants to Brooklyn Terriers, the Ascent of Creatures Great and Small in the Art World
ARTINFO goes deep inside the animal art scene to profile the eccentric geniuses who are carving out a niche for themselves, often without opposable thumbs.
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Street Art: Hanging Not So Loose: Fans of Street Art "Surfing Madonna" Anguished As California Town Wages Campaign to Move It
Encinitas has hired conservators to remove a guerrilla mosaic of Our Lady of Guadalupe on a surfboard, but it's proving to be no easy task.
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Performing Arts: How Much Do You Know About the U.K.'s Mysterious "Heavy Pop" Band Wu Lyf?
This Manchester-based group, whose new album drops next week, is composed of "four dumbs kids" who are highly secretive.
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Art and Politics: Going Bald For Ai Weiwei: A Righteous Head-Shaving Performance Sharpens Debate Over Milwaukee Museum's Collaboration With China
Mike Brenner's action provoked the (ineffectual) intervention of museum guards, and has sparked a local furor.
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Style: Not Everyone's Bag: A Roundup of the Heated Debate Over Louis Vuitton's Show at Beijing's National Museum of China
Some in China object to hosting such a crassly commercial exhibition in one of the country's most prestigious institutions.
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The Daily Checklist: Mystery "Surfing Madonna" Artist Is Unmasked, IBM's Avant-Garde Technology to Save the Met's "Unicorn Tapestries," and More Must-Read Art News
Plus, a call for museums to take a stronger stand for Ai Weiwei.
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People: M.F. Husain, India's Most Successful and Most Controversial Artist, Passes Away at 95
The "Picasso of India" set auction records for Indian painting, but lived in exile because of death threats from Hindu extremists.
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Art and Politics: Wisconsin's Conservative Gov Banishes From His Home a Painting Meant to Remind Him of the State's Diversity
David Lenz's "Wishes in the Wind" is to be replaced by a portrait of "Old Abe," a Civil War-era eagle.
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