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People: Robert Miller, Gallerist Who Championed Women Artists, Dies at 72

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 The dealer, who started out as a painter himself, worked with such icons as Diane Arbus, Joan Mitchell, and Eva Hesse.

People: A Valediction Forbidding Moping: The Greatest Hits of My Art-World Baptism by Fire at ARTINFO

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 Adieu, ARTINFO. I came, I saw, I lived to tell the tale.

Budget and debt talks move to the White House

Fashion: As Prada Declares Some Goods Are Made in China, Does That Signify the Decline of Luxury?

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 Consumers may turn up their noses as more high-end fashion labels make the production move to China.

The Daily Checklist: Thomas Struth Unveils Gorgeous New Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, Van Gogh Museum to Close for Security Upgrade, and More Must-Read Art News

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 Plus, GM gives a Detroit art school $2.5 million.

Museums: The Many Faces of David Bowie Go on View at the Museum of Arts and Design

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 The show claims the Thin White Duke as a precedent for today's performance artists.

Old Masters & Antiquities: From Michelangelos to an Entire Alpine Hamlet, China Sets Out to Clone Western Cultural Heritage

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 The widespread campaign is seeing replicas of entire towns in the economically booming country.

People: Remembering Robert Miller, an Old-School Art Dealer Who Risked Standing Apart

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 The gallerist, who died last week at 72, represented a different era of the art world — one in which he was something of a revolutionary.

Photography: The Bandit and the Robber Baron: Koch Brother Buys Historic Billy the Kid Photo for $2.3 Million

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 The only authenticated photo of outlaw Billy the Kid sold for many times its estimate at a Denver auction.

Museums: Suspecting It Harbors a Nazi-Looted Painting, MFA Boston Preemptively Pays Settlement

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 The museum's "curator for provenance" discovered that a Dutch portrait was likely expropriated from a dealer who died in Auschwitz.

Performing Arts: Rufus Wainwright the Opera Librettist and Six Other Surprising Celebrity Musical Metamorphoses

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 As Wainwright prepares to host excerpts from his opera "Prima Donna," ARTINFO examines other performers who genre-hop.

Street Art: Moustache Man, NYC's Irrepressible Subway Artist, Humbled at the Hands of the Law

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 Following in the illicit footsteps of Poster Boy, the city's most whimsical underground vandal has been brought low by his own online bragging.

Performance Art: Performa Announces New 2011 Commissions for Simon Fujiwara, Frances Stark, and Others

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 The performance art biennial offers ARTINFO a sneak peek at the latest commissions for the blockbuster October event.

Galleries: Can Marlborough Have a Sense of Humor? Trying to Turn a Corner, the Blue-Chip Gallery Trades Sculpture for Satire

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 The veteran gallery has invited provocateur William Powhida to show in its Chelsea space, along with up-and-coming photo artists.

The Daily Checklist: Alexander McQueen "Savages" Van Gogh Record at the Met, Courtney Love Splits With Phillips de Pury Blue-Blood, and More Must-Read Art News

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 Plus, Google and the Getty enter a futuristic partnership.

Design & Architecture: David Chipperfield's Sensitive Neues Museum Redesign Wins Mies van der Rohe Award

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 The architect's update of the East Berlin museum beat out buildings by Bernard Tschumi, Zaha Hadid, and Jean Nouvel.

Art Market: Art-Market Kick Flip?: Damien Hirst Cashes in on His Skater Cred, Ramping Up Prices on His Novelty Skateboards

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 Originally sold for under $100 to skaters, versions of the decks are now being hawked for close to $2,000 by Hirst's Other Criteria.

Performing Arts: Shakespearean Couplet?: The Royal Shakespeare Company Clones Its Stratford-Upon-Avon Theater at the Park Avenue Armory

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 ARTINFO looks at the stats on how the original theater stacks up against its New York doppelganger, where the Company is performing this summer.

Arts Policy: An "Ugly" Frank Stella and Other Dubious Sculptures Spark a Public Art Backlash in Seoul

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 Objections to Stella's "Amabel" and to other outdoor works — like a gorilla with a backpack — have led legislators to change a longstanding art law.

Performing Arts: The 20 Greatest Westerns: A List to Get Ornery About

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 No, Robert Altman's "McCabe & Mrs Miller" is not the greatest Western of all time.
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