"Large Red Sphere" has been sited in the Turkentor gallery, a custom-designed space pregnant with historical associations.
Museums: With a Giant Orb, Walter De Maria Transforms Hitler's Barracks into an Art Shrine
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Museums: Amid Recriminations in Post-Mubarak Egypt, Antiquities Chief Announces Plan to Hire 1,000 Interns
Zahi Hawass defends his reputation, as new reports on the fate of the country's cultural sites come in, and some museums reopen.
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Art & Crime: Desperate Museum Guard Holds Renaissance Masterpieces For Ransom, Only to Have Them Stolen From His Car
Antoine Mocellini, a 20-year employee of Corsica's Fine Arts Museum, had attempted to exchange the art for a place to live.
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The Daily Checklist: Street Art Undermines Rahm Emanuel's Chicago Victory, Drew Barrymore Dates an Art Consultant, and More Must-Read Art News
Plus, the rebirth of Gen Art.
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Museums: Struggling Folk Art Museum Plans an Exhibition in Venice During the Biennial
The New York institution, which has been regularly failing to meet crushing debt obligations, plans to show work by black self-taught and graffiti artists.
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Art and Politics: 50-Foot Nude "Loire Woman" Statue Is Chased Away From Medieval French Abbey
Sculptor Michel Audiard has had to find another site for his 56-foot tall artwork after neighbors objected to its planned location above a Catholic school.
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Art and Technology: No Friend of the Nude: A Blushing Facebook Wages a Campaign Against Courbet and Au Naturale Art
Danish artist Frode Steinicke's run-in with the site's decency standards is only the latest case of the Internet giant's ham-fisted approach to the art form.
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The Daily Checklist: Jeffrey Deitch Twirls Natalie Portman's Tutus at MOCA, Art Burglary Spree Strikes the Hamptons, and More Must-Read Art News
Plus, has a new Michelangelo sculpture been found?
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Arts Policy: Billions of Blistering Barnacles! A French Court Upholds Tintin Parody
Satirical comic artist Gordon Zola has won the copyright suit lodged by the Moulinsart company, which controls Hergé's work.
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People: Russian Billionaire Roman Abramovich Calls a Starchitect Search for Dasha Zhukova's Art Island
David Chipperfield, Dixon Jones Architects, and OMA are among the architects submitting designs for the $400 million mixed-use complex.
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Art & Crime: Woman Drags Gagosian to Court in Police Brutality Suit on Eve of James Franco Show
Ingrid Homberg, whom police forcibly ejected from the gallery's Anselm Kiefer show last year, has filed the lawsuit at an awkward time for the gallery.
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Galleries: OHWOW Gallery Goes West, Expanding to Los Angeles
The New York art platform has added an ivy-covered West Hollywood site to its expanding multidisciplinary program.
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The Daily Checklist: Vik Muniz's Oscar Film Trashed by Co-Directors, NEA-Killing Republican Congressman Asks Kids for Free Art, and More Must-Read Art News
Plus, Lena Horne's Picasso and memorabilia will sing to bidders at auction.
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Art and Politics: How a Kidnapping Hurled France and Mexico Into a Diplomatic Art Feud
France's "Year of Mexico" nationwide museum initiative has been thrown into chaos by a controversial 60-year sentence imposed by a Mexican court.
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Postwar & Contemporary Art: 5 Nominees for Best British Street Artist (Who's Not Banksy)
While Banksy is in L.A. for the Oscars, ARTINFO UK highlights a few of the other stars of the London scene that you should know.
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Design & Architecture: In Aftermath of Deadly Earthquake, New Zealand Surveys Wreckage of Cultural Landmarks
Monumental buildings in downtown Christchurch have been severely damaged, and in some cases destroyed altogether.
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Art and Technology: Google Doodle Conspiracy?: Search Giant Accused of Using Art Contest to Amass Data on America's Children
The real question, though, is why the Whitney has partnered with "Doogle-4-Google" to showcase the search company's logo.
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The Daily Checklist: Art World Mercilessly Snubbed at the Oscars, Barnes Foundation Case May Return to Court, and More Must-Read Art News
Plus, Christopher Knight takes the air out of the Smithsonian's upcoming censorship forum.
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Art & Crime: Out of Captivity: Bansky Wins Freedom of Russia's Jailed Voina Art Anarchists
Two members of the radical group have been bailed, while the collective has now denounced a state art contest for removing their work from the running.
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Museums: China Debuts World's Largest Museum on Tiananmen Square
Thanks to an ambitious expansion, China's National Museum now has over 2 million square feet of exhibition space.
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