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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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 Minutes after speaking to ARTINFO, Governor Sam Brownback replaced Schwaller with the head of his own new private-sector arts foundation.

Performing Arts: Bono Faces Artistic Counter-Performance at Glastonbury in Protest of U2's Tax Dodging

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 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.

Performing Arts: High-Society Homicide: Christopher Mason, Host of the New TV Show "Behind Mansion Walls," on the Fine Art... of Murder

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 From poisoned marmalade to the cross-dressing Wall Street strangler, Mason explores — and explains — the crimes of the rich and powerful.

Design & Architecture: Hong Kong Prison to Be Rehabilitated as Lavish $231 Million Art Complex, With a Hand From Herzog & de Meuron

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 The Central Police Station Project is just one of the city's exciting new initiatives, which also include the giant new M+ Museum.

Performing Arts: See Artist Nader Sadek's Genre-Blurring Sculpture for His New Heavy Metal Album, "In the Flesh"

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 The album itself fuses conceptual meditations on the oil economy with guest appearances by musicians from Cattle Decapitation and Behold... The Arctopus.

Museums: Paris's Troubled Palais de Tokyo Taps Jean de Loisy to Take Over as President

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 The curator of the Israeli pavilion at the current Venice Biennale has been appointed to the post.

The Daily Checklist: "Antiques Roadshow" Unearths a $500,000 Norman Rockwell, Nicolai Ouroussoff Departs the Times, and More Must-Read Art News

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 Plus, four-year-old artist Aelita Andre's blockbuster Chelsea gallery show.

Museums: The Barnes Foundation Declares That It Will Live On in Merion (But the Art Is Going to Philly)

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 The Barnes Foundation has pledged $300,000 to preserving the historic site and turning it into a horticultural attraction.

Postwar & Contemporary Art: Biennale Bloopers: ARTINFO's List of 7 Spectacular Snafus From Last Week's Venetian Festivities

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 From stranded athletes to a guest tackled during the Golden Lion ceremony, not everything at the glitzy event went off without a hitch.

People: Disgraced Congressman Anthony Weiner, Raging Hypocrite, Awful Art Critic

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 Remember Weiner's attack on "The Triumph of Civic Virtue" because it was disrespectful to women?

Impressionist & Modern Art: Is This Painting of a Young Girl One of Picasso's Earliest Works?

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 Catalan researchers believe that they have unearthed a lost portrait by Picasso of his beloved deceased sister.

The Daily Checklist: Spain's Spacey New Balenciaga Museum Debuts, Saatchi Honors Seven-Year-Old Painting Sensation, and More Must-Read Art News

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 Plus, the Getty Research Institute acquires the archives of legendary curator Harald Szeemann.

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

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 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.

Street Art: Hanging Not So Loose: Fans of Street Art "Surfing Madonna" Anguished As California Town Wages Campaign to Move It

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 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.

Performing Arts: How Much Do You Know About the U.K.'s Mysterious "Heavy Pop" Band Wu Lyf?

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 This Manchester-based group, whose new album drops next week, is composed of "four dumbs kids" who are highly secretive.

Art and Politics: Going Bald For Ai Weiwei: A Righteous Head-Shaving Performance Sharpens Debate Over Milwaukee Museum's Collaboration With China

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 Mike Brenner's action provoked the (ineffectual) intervention of museum guards, and has sparked a local furor.

Style: Not Everyone's Bag: A Roundup of the Heated Debate Over Louis Vuitton's Show at Beijing's National Museum of China

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 Some in China object to hosting such a crassly commercial exhibition in one of the country's most prestigious institutions.

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

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 Plus, a call for museums to take a stronger stand for Ai Weiwei.

People: M.F. Husain, India's Most Successful and Most Controversial Artist, Passes Away at 95

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 The "Picasso of India" set auction records for Indian painting, but lived in exile because of death threats from Hindu extremists.

Art and Politics: Wisconsin's Conservative Gov Banishes From His Home a Painting Meant to Remind Him of the State's Diversity

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 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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