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Museums: With a Giant Orb, Walter De Maria Transforms Hitler's Barracks into an Art Shrine

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 "Large Red Sphere" has been sited in the Turkentor gallery, a custom-designed space pregnant with historical associations.

Museums: Amid Recriminations in Post-Mubarak Egypt, Antiquities Chief Announces Plan to Hire 1,000 Interns

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 Zahi Hawass defends his reputation, as new reports on the fate of the country's cultural sites come in, and some museums reopen.

Art & Crime: Desperate Museum Guard Holds Renaissance Masterpieces For Ransom, Only to Have Them Stolen From His Car

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 Antoine Mocellini, a 20-year employee of Corsica's Fine Arts Museum, had attempted to exchange the art for a place to live.

The Daily Checklist: Street Art Undermines Rahm Emanuel's Chicago Victory, Drew Barrymore Dates an Art Consultant, and More Must-Read Art News

Museums: Struggling Folk Art Museum Plans an Exhibition in Venice During the Biennial

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 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.

Art and Politics: 50-Foot Nude "Loire Woman" Statue Is Chased Away From Medieval French Abbey

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 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.

Art and Technology: No Friend of the Nude: A Blushing Facebook Wages a Campaign Against Courbet and Au Naturale Art

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 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.

The Daily Checklist: Jeffrey Deitch Twirls Natalie Portman's Tutus at MOCA, Art Burglary Spree Strikes the Hamptons, and More Must-Read Art News

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 Plus, has a new Michelangelo sculpture been found?

Arts Policy: Billions of Blistering Barnacles! A French Court Upholds Tintin Parody

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 Satirical comic artist Gordon Zola has won the copyright suit lodged by the Moulinsart company, which controls Hergé's work.

People: Russian Billionaire Roman Abramovich Calls a Starchitect Search for Dasha Zhukova's Art Island

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 David Chipperfield, Dixon Jones Architects, and OMA are among the architects submitting designs for the $400 million mixed-use complex.

Art & Crime: Woman Drags Gagosian to Court in Police Brutality Suit on Eve of James Franco Show

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 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.

Galleries: OHWOW Gallery Goes West, Expanding to Los Angeles

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 The New York art platform has added an ivy-covered West Hollywood site to its expanding multidisciplinary program.

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

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 Plus, Lena Horne's Picasso and memorabilia will sing to bidders at auction.

Art and Politics: How a Kidnapping Hurled France and Mexico Into a Diplomatic Art Feud

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 France's "Year of Mexico" nationwide museum initiative has been thrown into chaos by a controversial 60-year sentence imposed by a Mexican court.

Postwar & Contemporary Art: 5 Nominees for Best British Street Artist (Who's Not Banksy)

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 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.

Design & Architecture: In Aftermath of Deadly Earthquake, New Zealand Surveys Wreckage of Cultural Landmarks

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 Monumental buildings in downtown Christchurch have been severely damaged, and in some cases destroyed altogether.

Art and Technology: Google Doodle Conspiracy?: Search Giant Accused of Using Art Contest to Amass Data on America's Children

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 The real question, though, is why the Whitney has partnered with "Doogle-4-Google" to showcase the search company's logo.

The Daily Checklist: Art World Mercilessly Snubbed at the Oscars, Barnes Foundation Case May Return to Court, and More Must-Read Art News

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 Plus, Christopher Knight takes the air out of the Smithsonian's upcoming censorship forum.

Art & Crime: Out of Captivity: Bansky Wins Freedom of Russia's Jailed Voina Art Anarchists

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 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.

Museums: China Debuts World's Largest Museum on Tiananmen Square

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 Thanks to an ambitious expansion, China's National Museum now has over 2 million square feet of exhibition space.
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