Rovner's piece brings together masons representing each side to build replicas of houses, using actual stones from the Middle East.
Postwar & Contemporary Art: The Politics of the Stones: Artist Michal Rovner Imports the Israel-Palestine Conflict to the Louvre in Order to Heal It
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The Daily Checklist: Facebook-Powered Museum of Me Goes Viral, Utah and Dia Unravel "Spiral Jetty" Mix-Up, and More Must-Read Art News
Plus, a collaborative Christ painting by Jack Kerouac goes on view in Rome.
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Street Art: The Triumph of Invader: The Street Art Maestro Celebrates His 1,000th Mosaic With Electrifying Paris Survey
True to form, the secretive artist skipped the opening of his show, but sent a cheeky video titled "In Bed with Invader."
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Museums: Banksy's Latest Surprise Move: Free Tickets for All to L.A. MOCA's "Art in the Streets"
Monday admission will be comped thanks to what Jeffrey Deitch calls an "unprecedented" donation from the street art king.
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Postwar & Contemporary Art: A Q&A With the "Power of Self" Prize Winner Stephen O'Donnell, the "Perverted Norman Rockwell" of Portland
The figurative painter has secured the top honor from the annual self-portrait competition, which promises to pay for a year of an artist's life.
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Design & Architecture: The Apple Has Landed: Steve Jobs Announces Spaceship-Like New Headquarters, Designed by Norman Foster
Cupertino city councilmembers, spellbound by their iPads, look certain to approve the monumental new building.
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Street Art: The Wild and Woolly World of Yarn Bombing, Street Art's Soft Sensation
For International Yarn Bombing Day, ARTINFO explores some of the highlights of extreme knitting, and the sometimes passionate debates the craze inspires.
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Art & Crime: How a Routine Traffic Stop Led Italian Police to $3.6 Million in Stolen Art
The hapless criminals were found to have art by Warhol, Balthus, Léger, and others, taken from the Monte Carlo home of Paola Folon.
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The Daily Checklist: Shady Frida Kahlo Trove May Be Real After All, America's Next Top Toddler Artist, and More Must-Read Art News
Plus, Newsweek names the top ten artists of our time.
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Performing Arts: "Book of Mormon" Wins Hosannas and a Poetry-Spouting Thespian Bewilders at the 2011 Tony Awards
The irreverent musical by the duo behind "South Park" swept the ceremony, which was marked by a few odd occurrences.
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Museums: Battle for the '70s: MoMA and the Getty Announce Key Acquisitions in Contest for the Era's Art
As the East and West coasts square off, MoMA has secured two immense troves while the Getty has won legendary curator Harald Szeemann's archive.
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Galleries: Rock the Kas-Bar: Art Dealer Paul Kasmin to Take Over Bungalow 8 Space
The Chelsea gallerist has acquired the former nightclub to create a new art space and sculpture garden.
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Museums: Schindler's Museum: The Krakow Factory Made Famous by "Schindler's List" is Transformed Into a Contemporary Art Center
Architects Claudio Nardi and Leonardo Maria Proli designed a new building and converted six structures that belonged to the lauded industrialist.
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Arts Policy: Is Pole Dancing Art? A Court Rules No, Thwarting One Nightclub's Heroic Quest
A New York judge has declared that stripping shouldn't confer the same tax breaks that artistic practice does, because it requires no training.
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The Daily Checklist: Details Revealed for "Younger Than Jesus" Sequel, Justin Timberlake's Richard Serra Nightmares, and More Must-Read Art News
Plus, meet Basel's new "curatorial rock star."
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Art & Crime: Picasso's Electrician Indicted for Harboring Allegedly Stolen Cache of the Master's Art
The court does not believe Pierre Le Guennec's story that the 271 artworks were gifts.
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Performing Arts: "Spider-Man," Fresh From the ICU, Swings Back to Broadway With Bono's Love
After six delayed openings, numerous revisions, and Tabloid-fodder injuries, producers are hoping the show will finally soar with its grand return tonight.
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Art and Technology: Test-Driving Gagosian Gallery's Deluxe New iPad App
The app gives you access to museum-quality art from the furthest reaches of Gagosian's globe-spanning art empire. And it's free.
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Art and Politics: U.S. State Department Impotent in the Face of Chinese Cyberattacks on the Guggenheim's Ai Weiwei Petition
While government officials have raised the issue with China, Change.org remains under siege.
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Arts Policy: Bad Blood: Czech Government Scrambles to Recall International Art Loans, Fearing They Will Be Seized in $500 Million Dispute
An aggrieved blood plasma company has already compelled Austrian authorities to confiscate $877,000 in art from a Vienna gallery.
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