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Art Market: Offering Disgruntled Exhibitors a 50 Percent Refund, VIP Art Fair Reboots as a Year-Round Online Salesroom

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 Co-founder Jane Cohan says the revamped site will offer galleries around the world a virtual space to show buyers their wares.

The Daily Checklist: Banksy Rides $$$ Oscar Nom Bounce, XXX Jesus Vandal Gets Off Easy, and More Must-Read Art News

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 Plus, Bonhams auction house is making a play for contemporary art.

Art & Crime: Art Investment Scam Fleeces Hundreds in France

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 Marble Art Invest promised unrealistic returns and was never even authorized to do business in France.

Art Market: Sotheby's Boosted Sales to a Bubblicious $4.8 Billion in 2010

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 The New York-based auction house touted its year-end revenue as the highest since 2007, joining arch-rival Christie's in benefiting from the market resurgence.

The Daily Checklist: Armory Week Sheep Invade Times Square, Egypt's Embattled Antiquities Chief May Resign, and More Must-Read Art News

Old Masters & Antiquities: Will Afghanistan's Buddhas, Blown Up by the Taliban, Be Restored?

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 A German expert has a plan to reconstruct one of two massive statues that were destroyed ten years ago in the Bamiyan valley.

Postwar & Contemporary Art: I Smell a Rat!: The True Creator of Lowbrow Art's Iconic "Rat Fink" Revealed

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 The family of Don "Monté" Montéverde claims the landmark graphic was stolen by Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, who has claimed the glory and the profits.

Museums: World's Richest Man Carlos Slim Inaugurates Mexico City Museum, With Some Help From Larry King

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 The Mexican megabillionaire's $34-million Soumaya Museum, designed by Slim's son-in-law, will showcase the communications magnate's vast art holdings.

The Daily Checklist: Damien Hirst Gets First U.K. Retro During Olympics, Giddy Conservative Finds Commie Art in Library of Congress, and More Must-Read Art News

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 Plus, Congressman Anthony Weiner is shocked, shocked, by a naked artwork.

Postwar & Contemporary Art: Mysterious Street Artist JR Unveils Plan to Blanket the Earth With Your Photos

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 The "Inside Out" initiative is the recipient of the TED Prize, which comes with $100,000 and the contacts to make the epic project happen.

The Daily Checklist: United States Plans to Combine Venice Biennale and Olympics, Murakami Lawsuit Over Louis Vuitton Dismissed, and More Must-Read Art News

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 Plus, where's Damien Hirst at the Armory Show?

Art and Politics: The New Egyptian Government Can't Fire Zahi Hawass — Because He Quits

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 The fast-talking antiquities minister seems to have his own personal timeline when it comes to the looting of the Met's excavation site in Egypt.

Postwar & Contemporary Art: Art for Zeus: Britain Picks 6 Public Art Projects to Vie for Glory in the 2012 Cultural Olympiad

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 A Lady Godiva puppet, a junkyard band, and a crocheted-lion-mobile are some of the more unusual grant winners.

The Daily Checklist: Is Charlie Sheen a Performance Artist Too?, Rahm Emmanuel Vows to Whip Chicago Art Scene Into Shape, and More Must-Read Art News

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 Plus, Chinese artists are fighting back after being evicted in Shanghai.

Design & Architecture: Norman Foster Triumphs in Bid to Design Vast $2.8 Billion Cultural District in Hong Kong

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 The British architect's proposal, described as "rooted in Hong Kong's urban DNA," beat out rivals including Rem Koolhaas's OMA.

Impressionist & Modern Art: How Psychologists and a Team of Monkeys, Babies, and Elephants Proved That Abstract Art Takes Talent

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 Further foiling wannabe contemporary art debunkers, Boston University researchers proved that a studio art degree is worth something.

Art & Crime: Samurai Swords and Financial Hocus-Pocus: The Saga of Art Dealer Turned Alleged Scammer Rocco DeSimone

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 The former Rhode Island art peddler is on trial for conning investors — including a doctor/inventor and a karate-loving janitor — out of $6 million.

Design & Architecture: The Five Most Spectacular Architectural Projects in China

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 ARTINFO China spotlights the most ambitious and interesting buildings that people are talking about in the booming country.

The Daily Checklist: Fox News Calls Art the "Key to a World of Great Sex," Velázquez's Dead King Signs Autographs at the Met, and More Must-Read Art News

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 Plus, does the record Picasso's Tate Modern destination provide a clue to its mystery owner?

People: The Discreet Enigma of George Economou: A Greek Magnate Unveils His Unique Art Collection in Athens

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 ARTINFO France spoke with Economou, whose feverish collecting shows a distinctive take on art history.
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